Wedding Photographer Tate Modern — the Turbine Hall, the Switch House and the City of London View
Tate Modern is London’s most visited art gallery and one of the world’s most architecturally significant conversion projects — the former Bankside Power Station of 1947–60, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott and converted 1994–2000 by Herzog & de Meuron, whose restoration of the turbine hall’s five-storey industrial cathedral space (originally housing the power station’s generating turbines) as a 3,400-square-metre free gallery and event space provides a portrait setting of industrial sublime of a scale and quality unique in London. The Tate Modern Terrace provides the most celebrated contemporary view of St Paul’s Cathedral dome and the City’s glass towers across the Thames. For Tate Modern wedding photography, the Turbine Hall’s monumental scale, the Switch House’s raw concrete, the Blavatnik Building’s spiral stair and the tenth-floor terrace’s City panorama provide portrait settings of contemporary London cultural architecture of the highest international profile.
The Turbine Hall, the Bridge and the Blavatnik Building
The Turbine Hall — the former generating turbine hall of Bankside’s oil-fired power station, originally 155 metres long and 35 metres high, converted by Herzog & de Meuron to a public gallery and events space retaining the brick walls’ raw industrial character, the overhead crane and the vast internal scale — provides a portrait setting of industrial cathedral character unique in London: the combination of the 35-metre-high roof’s receding industrial trusses, the raw brick walls and the human scale provides portrait compositions of industrial sublime. The Blavatnik Building (2016, Herzog & de Meuron) — the new pyramid of concrete and glass at Bankside’s western end — provides a spiral stair interior portrait setting of exposed concrete brutalist character.
The Terrace View, the Millennium Bridge Axis and Bankside Beach
Tate Modern’s Level 10 Terrace — the rooftop viewing gallery of the 2016 Blavatnik Building, with the 360-degree panorama of London visible from the Shard’s glass blade east to St Paul’s dome due north across the Millennium Bridge axis and the City’s glass towers beyond — provides London’s most celebrated and most comprehensively panoramic riverside rooftop portrait position. The Millennium Bridge’s pedestrian axis — Norman Foster’s 2000 bridge, whose straight line runs from the steps of St Paul’s south through the bridge to the Tate’s entrance — provides the most celebrated current London bride-and-city-backdrop portrait position from the bridge’s central span. Bankside Beach at low tide provides a Thames foreshore portrait setting.