Herzog & de Meuron's minimalist yet dramatic conversion of London's Bankside Power Station into the largest museum for modern art in the world is breathtaking. This strikingly-shot documentary gives an insight into the Swiss architects' transformation of the building into the most successful and popular modern art building in the world.
Those visiting, or revisiting, Tate Modern having seen this programme will undoubtedly have a new appreciation of both its sweeping vistas and its all-important details.

Jacques Herzog and Harry Gugger, partners of Herzog & de Meuron, and Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate, contribute to a survey of the anatomy of the building and its radical new approach to displaying art.

Many of the world's most distinguished architects entered the competition for the commission, but Herzog & de Meuron's was the only proposal that completely accepted the problem of working with the shell of Giles Gilbert Scott's power station its form, its materials and its industrial characteristics and saw the solution to be one of transformation rather than construction within the existing building. This concept, rather than design-based strategy reflected the similarity of their practice with that of many of the contemporary artists for whose work they have created an outstanding setting.