Here is one of my fave new additions to London, the Tate Modern gallery. Built in one of the most ugly and depressing-looking buildings of my childhood, the abandoned Battersea Power Station (also featured on the cover of Pink Floyd's seminal album, Animals). What makes it for me is the sense of vastness in this building and the feeling that the whole thing is a great experiment. It's a delicious irony, that what was once a temple to social engineering should become one to the freedom of the human spirit.
I see the light flooding through the gates as that freedom, with everyone drawn irresistibly towards it, the great flow of liberated humanity.
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