The Tate gets a much-needed facelift





It’s Dani from http://www.makeaquick.com here. Since I was a kid, I have been fascinated with museums and art galleries. My favourite was the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Ontario Canada. The building was always very conservative, with a massive grand entrance and fantastic mosaic on the ceiling. It had, and still has a really cool massive Native American totem pole that stretched at least 4 floors.

For the last two years of my undergrad at the University of Toronto, I had the pleasure of witnessing an architectural feat that blew my mind on a daily basis; the new Crystal gallery extension to the Royal Ontario Museum. I got to watch the entire construction process while walking to class, on my lunch, or out library windows, from the massive steel frame, to the panels that enveloped the old, conservative design of the building.
The result of the new extension? An amazing juxtaposition between the conservative original building and the dynamic modern “Crystal” which looks as if it has landed and crashed the museum.

That being said, I was very surprised and excited to hear the Tate museum has just unveiled it’s new Egyptian-modern inspired extension. This is fantastic news considering the Tate is a massive concrete construction, and not in the flattering way. Check it out!