This project is by the Basel-based firm of Herzog & de Meuron, architects of that icon of icons, the stadium built for the 2008 Beijing Olympics – or Bird's Nest, as the architects don't like it to be called. This is the conversion of the oil tanks of the former Bankside power station in London – a clover of three buried concrete cylinders – into new spaces for performance and exhibition for Tate Modern, which is what the power station became in 2000. When the dust settles on this year of spectacle and recession-proof Olympic construction, of teetering steel pointing to the sky, of swinging cranes, mayoral openings and breathless press releases, of the mighty Shard and the risible Orbit, one of the most memorable works will turn out to be something invisible above ground, and largely the creation of little-known 1950s engineers.
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