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On behalf of the Board of Trustees of the Tate Gallery, we are looking to appoint a suitably qualified set of consultants to support the transformation of the landscape at the front of Tate Britain Gallery, along Millbank. The Tate Britain Garden Project will transform the open spaces in front of the gallery, the so-called Millbank entrance, reframing the public approach and formal entrance to Tate Britain with a beautiful, contemporary and welcoming new green space. The garden will be an open invitation for new audiences of all ages and backgrounds to engage with exceptional plants and garden design, to rest, to play, to meet, to explore works of art, to enjoy food and drink in a beautiful plant-filled setting. We want the garden to be a model of new thinking in urban ecological design, set out with people and nature in mind, reversing the current predominance of hard landscaping, formal barriers and under-used areas in the current garden. We want to open up the spaces, introducing plant species and features that will thrive in the garden and create visual interest year-round.

Last financial year, a large proportion of Tate Modern’s Curatorial budget was spent on alternations of the gallery spaces, mainly dismantling and re-building walls, to suit the layout requirements for each exhibition. This practise also contributes to one of the largest portions of the carbon footprint generated by exhibitions production. Tate Modern would like to turn this challenge into an opportunity, where we are taking advantage of a completely empty space to design a new gallery that could be adapted for multiple exhibition projects in a low cost and circular way. This project will commission specialised designers to design a set of modular, movable and re-configurable walls to use in Blavatnik L2 South Gallery. This would allow us to respond to project-specific spatial needs by achieving multiple layouts with flexible setworks, making substantial efficiencies in construction costs, materials, labour and waste.

Last financial year, a large proportion of Tate Modern's Curatorial budget was spent on alternations of the gallery spaces, mainly dismantling and re-building walls, to suit the layout requirements for each exhibition. This practise also contributes to one of the largest portions of the carbon footprint generated by exhibitions production. Tate Modern would like to turn this challenge into an opportunity, where we are taking advantage of a completely empty space to design a new gallery that could be adapted for multiple exhibition projects in a low cost and circular way. This project will commission specialised designers to design a set of modular, movable and re-configurable walls to use in Blavatnik L2 South Gallery. This would allow us to respond to project-specific spatial needs by achieving multiple layouts with flexible setworks, making substantial efficiencies in construction costs, materials, labour and waste.