Tate Modern transformed the UK's attitude to modern art, according to director Sir Nicholas Serota.
It might be telling that, while Tate Modern transformed its oil tanks into an atmospheric venue for experimental art, EDP plans to convert its big cylindrical gas tank into a restaurant designed by Philippe Starck.
To date, more than 56 million visitors have passed through the massive industrial spaces of the Tate Modern, transformed by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron from a disused power station into a cultural center that has altered the nature and expectation of the museum-going experience, making it as much a tourist attraction as an art destination.
This modern masterwork transforms the concert hall into a place of shuddering mystery, suggesting that the way of truth goes through the dark.
(SW 4, 188) It is the fragment 'Central Park' that most clearly reveals the consequences of Benjamin's reading of Baudelaire for his concept of history: the modern completely transforms the possibilities for the experience of history.
Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable.
But, in the authentic sense, in that it is a global, modern sensibility transforming and reinvigorating the age-old hegemony of la gastronomie française.
In this funny and genuinely instructive guide, Mr. O'Brien gives advice that's both down-to-earth and worldly on subjects from "How to Be Polite" to "How to be Sexual" to "How to Be a Friend," to help modern guys transform themselves into modern gentlemen.
What he actually designed in SE1 was "Neo Bankside", a "stunning development" of three towers next to Tate Modern, the transformed Bankside power station – once a derelict structure highlighted in A New London – where you can pay £1.5m for a one-bedroom flat.
Modern ecology transformed into a more rigorous science in the late 19th century.
