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Neo Bankside residents filled a claim against Tate Modern for disrupting their privacy

United Kingdom Architecture News - Apr 26, 2017 - 09:54   11853 views

Neo Bankside residents filled a claim against Tate Modern for disrupting their privacy

Residents of Neo Bankside towers is taking Tate Modern to court as its viewing platform recently designed by Herzog & de Meuron disrupting their privacy. Neo Bankside towers designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and is just located across the Tate Modern's viewing gallery, and now becomes a disputable property case showing that how an art may interfere with daily life. 

Five residents of Neo Bankside apartments have already filled a claim against the museum to shut down its viewing gallery. Oliver Wainwright from The Guardian written a fascinating piece about this case in detail and briefly touched upon London's real estate market.

Good walls make good neighbours – but not, it seems, when they are made entirely of glass. Five residents of the multi-million-pound Neo Bankside towers, which loom behind Tate Modern like a crystalline bar chart of inflated land values, have filed a legal claim against the museum to have part of its viewing platform shut down. They claim that its 10th-floor public terrace has put their homes into a state of ''near constant surveillance''.....Continue Reading

Top image: Neo Bankside towers, image © Edmund Sumner

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