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Stepping out of the tube at Whitechapel in East London, you find yourself in a bustling market, selling everything from fruit and veg to saris and CDs of the latest Bangra beats. Above the stalls and Victorian shop-fronts the colourful glass façade of the ‘Ideas Store’ hoves into view, like an inter-stellar spaceship on [...]

Mod Blog contributors, commentators, film-makers, scrawlers and fans, please take a bow as we have been awarded a splendid shiny pink sci-fi-esque cube for our efforts…
Snatching the annual BIMA award for Best Blog in the ‘Social Media’ category, The Great Tate Mod Blog won out against some strong competition. As you can see we produced [...]

Fiona Sibley snoops around offices that pave the way for better working practices

Office life gave us one of the best comedy TV series in recent memory. Inside Ricky Gervais’ tragicomic world of heavy-duty carpets, cluttered desks and claustrophobic meeting rooms, trapped on a miserable trading estate in Slough, were elements we probably all recognised: the [...]

I recently visited Berlin and was keen to experience the city’s art galleries. I found them to be some of the most exciting gallery spaces I have ever seen.

Hamburger Bahnhof , Berlin (© Alexey Moskvin)
One of them is Hamburger Bahnhof, which was designed by Josef Paul Kleihues, and originally built as the terminal of [...]

Sheffield, for me, is a city that would be impossible to sum up in one blog. Then again, I’m slightly biased in my love for the place, having spent the last seven years there. It’s definitely a city where all is not what it seems. A mystery, a cult classic.
When I think of Sheffield I [...]

For some truly off-the-wall ideas take a trip to Psycho Buildings, the Hayward Gallery London’s mash up of art and architecture.
The exhibition brings together what they describe as ‘habitat-like sculptures and architecturally inflected installations’. This translates into some pretty weird and spectacular spaces, and maybe a few that would be fun to think about [...]

Today, Tate Director, Nicholas Serota and architects Herzog & de Meuron revealed the latest plans for the new development at Tate Modern.
Instead of the glass façade originally envisaged, the building will be enveloped in a textured brick lattice. The design links the extension much more closely to the brick structure of the existing power station [...]

When it was time to design a forward-looking extension to the already contemporary Tate Modern, the voice of the next generation needed to be heard. So it made sense to invite Raw Canvas – Tate Modern’s youth initiative – on a tour around the oil tanks.

The oil tanks remain from back when Tate Modern was [...]

Calling all teenagers: if you could design your perfect space to hang out in at Tate Modern, what would you put in it? What would it look like?
In Channel 4’s Skins, the teenagers hang out mostly in a park in Bristol. Outside of tellyland, teens do similar things – in Manchester they congregate around Urbis, [...]

We caught up with Renzo Piano to talk about ecological architecture, how to design a “cultural building”, and what it means to build the first skyscraper in New York since September 11th.

The man who built the Pompidou Centre had a few things to say about his iconoclastic past and his ambition to create “buildings that [...]