Tate ‘snooping’ row back in court as neighbours launch appeal

By Alice Lorenzato-Lloyd2020-01-23T09:25:00

View from Tate Modern Switch House into Neo Bankside

Owners of Richard Rogers flats want Tate to shut 10th-floor viewing gallery

The residents of RSHP’s Neo Bankside flats have returned to the High Court arguing that the judge who threw out their gripe with the Tate Modern’s viewing deck was wrong.

They are hoping to overturn the judgement and put a stop to the “snooping” from visitors at the gallery’s Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension.

They say the judge’s “mental exercise” in which he imagined them living not in a building with floor-to-ceiling windows but one with “significant vertical and perhaps horizontal breaks to interrupt the inward view” was “hopelessly lacking in definition”.

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