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Tate Modern

In 1996 work began on a new project that split the Tate’s London collection between two sites. The disused Bankside power station, on the South Bank of the Thames near the South Bank Centre, was converted into Tate Modern, to house the Tate’s collection of international modern art from 1900 to the present day (including major works by Salvador Dalí, Pablo Picasso, and Andy Warhol), while Tate Britain, in the Tate’s original building at Millbank, houses the gallery's collection of British artworks. The redevelopment of Bankside was undertaken by the Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and the engineers Ove Arup Ltd., and retains the integrity of the original power station, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, while adding a glass roof to allow natural light into the gallery space below. The project was completed in 2000 at the cost of £134 million. In January 2005 the gallery announced that further work is to be done on its building. The electricity substation within the gallery is to be upgraded which will make more space available. This further development will be undertaken by the same architects, Herzog & de Meuron.