Alex MacLaren
Tate Gardens
The Tate Modern, Bankside, is a building that is many things to many people. It has been a power station. Now it is an art gallery. For me, it is a grand stately home in the centre of London, in need of a Garden.
The scheme proposes a series of landscape blocks, each of which has direct correspondence with an adjacent city block. This tree urbanism with differing heights, densities, order and texture, provides unprogrammed public rooms: a new pleasure garden for Londoners in an area bereft of substantial green space.