Tate Modern occupies the former Bankside Power Station on the Thames. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott designed the original building, which was built in two stages between 1947 and 1963 and had a central chimney 325 feet (99 m) tall. Its steel-framed, brick-clad structure held the Turbine Hall in the center, the boiler house to the north and the switch house to the south.
Herzog & de Meuron were announced as the winning architects in January 1995. The conversion was completed in January 2000, and the gallery opened in May of that year. The Turbine Hall is five stories tall. The Switch House extension, renamed the Blavatnik Building in 2017, opened on June 17, 2016. Its ten-story tower, 213 feet (65 m) high, has a sloping brick latticework facade.
The gallery stands across the river from St Paul's Cathedral. Admission to the collection is free, and Tate Modern had 4,514,266 visitors in 2025.
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