Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). It is the most-visited modern art gallery in the world, with around 4.7 million visitors per year. It is based in the former Bankside Power Station, in the Bankside area of the London Borough of Southwark. Tate holds the national collection of British art from 1900 to the present day and international modern and contemporary art.
It was also originally designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, you know, the fella who designed Battersea Power Station.
How it should look when finished.
I have had my eye on this for a while, I'm actually at the Tate regular enough to keep an eye on it. I know a few other Londoners hit the crane a while back. It recently dawned on me that i greatly prefer rooftops over cranes, i like the idea of watching a building grow from nothing until completion. I like the idea that in 10 or 15 years once I've retired from this urbex malarkey i could be wandering about and would be able to point out to the misses all the buildings i'd been top off in my more youthful days, maybe impress her, maybe get laid cause of it, can't really do that with a crane that hasn't been on site for 10 years. I must add i still like cranes.
I met up with The_Raw a while ago after another rooftop and showed him this place and suggested a way of entry only to be thwarted before we even really started, we headed elsewhere. Fast forward a bit and myself, The_Raw and extremeironing met up with a few lads from Norwich. This was the second of the night and after the delivery van had moved we bundled 7 of us over the fence just before the actual tourist bus of 40 people came round the corner. Everything went without a hitch for a while, i got bored and headed downstairs to try and find a way on to the actual Tate gallery roof, 3 others joined me, and 3 left the site. I thought i spotted a camera on the roof and alerted them to this but was told it was a floodlight, turned out it was a camera and had been spotted. Seemed like a good time to leave as i think something with so much money's worth of money inside probably wasn't a good place to be caught.
Just as we we were leaving we got word from the guys who had left that the site was now swarming with people and to get out, we ended up in our haste taking a different stairwell and ended up in the basement, slightly disorientated and lost we tried to head back upstairs to the ground floor but were stopped on several occasions by people at the top of the stairs. After about 30 minutes of being fucked, we decided we had to take one of the alarmed doors and the first door we tried just happened to open into a turbine hall. I don't think i will ever forget the look of horror on everyones faces, it was now time to get as far away from that door as possible, even worse than being caught on the roof would be being caught in the actual gallery. Next alarmed door we tried opened into a yard where we were found within seconds by someone very official, he then ushered the words "Boss, I've got them" into his radio. I wasn't gonna let this happen as i had work in the morning and one more push bar gate and we were running like the fucking wind.
Didn't seem that fun at the time, but seems a like a laugh now. I guess thats what its all about, right?
And a cheeky pic from the roof of the actual Tate Gallery.
It was also originally designed by Giles Gilbert Scott, you know, the fella who designed Battersea Power Station.
How it should look when finished.
I have had my eye on this for a while, I'm actually at the Tate regular enough to keep an eye on it. I know a few other Londoners hit the crane a while back. It recently dawned on me that i greatly prefer rooftops over cranes, i like the idea of watching a building grow from nothing until completion. I like the idea that in 10 or 15 years once I've retired from this urbex malarkey i could be wandering about and would be able to point out to the misses all the buildings i'd been top off in my more youthful days, maybe impress her, maybe get laid cause of it, can't really do that with a crane that hasn't been on site for 10 years. I must add i still like cranes.
I met up with The_Raw a while ago after another rooftop and showed him this place and suggested a way of entry only to be thwarted before we even really started, we headed elsewhere. Fast forward a bit and myself, The_Raw and extremeironing met up with a few lads from Norwich. This was the second of the night and after the delivery van had moved we bundled 7 of us over the fence just before the actual tourist bus of 40 people came round the corner. Everything went without a hitch for a while, i got bored and headed downstairs to try and find a way on to the actual Tate gallery roof, 3 others joined me, and 3 left the site. I thought i spotted a camera on the roof and alerted them to this but was told it was a floodlight, turned out it was a camera and had been spotted. Seemed like a good time to leave as i think something with so much money's worth of money inside probably wasn't a good place to be caught.
Just as we we were leaving we got word from the guys who had left that the site was now swarming with people and to get out, we ended up in our haste taking a different stairwell and ended up in the basement, slightly disorientated and lost we tried to head back upstairs to the ground floor but were stopped on several occasions by people at the top of the stairs. After about 30 minutes of being fucked, we decided we had to take one of the alarmed doors and the first door we tried just happened to open into a turbine hall. I don't think i will ever forget the look of horror on everyones faces, it was now time to get as far away from that door as possible, even worse than being caught on the roof would be being caught in the actual gallery. Next alarmed door we tried opened into a yard where we were found within seconds by someone very official, he then ushered the words "Boss, I've got them" into his radio. I wasn't gonna let this happen as i had work in the morning and one more push bar gate and we were running like the fucking wind.
Didn't seem that fun at the time, but seems a like a laugh now. I guess thats what its all about, right?
And a cheeky pic from the roof of the actual Tate Gallery.
Doh
