The street behind Tate Modern in London has been closed to the public after glass window panels fell from a residential high-rise.
The panels appear to have fallen from the Neo Bankside development, with shattered glass visible on the ground outside one the buildings in Holland Street. One panel fell on Monday morning around 9am and one the previous night, a security guard told passers-by. No one seems to have been hurt in the incidents.
One passer-by said on X that a panel landed about 10ft away from her, leaving her feeling shocked. Visitors to Tate Modern, which received 4.7 million visitors last year, were being directed away from the site towards the main Turbine Hall entrance. All entrances are now fully open and operating normally, says a spokesperson.
The Neo Bankside development was designed by the British firm Rogers Stirk
Harbour + Partners, co-founded by one of the architects of the Centre Pompidou, Richard Rogers. Some residents of the building were involved in a long-running dispute with Tate over the museum’s viewing gallery, which they said allowed people to see into their homes. Access to the rear of the viewing gallery is now restricted.
In 2018, a man was killed when a window fell from a residential development on Albert Embankment, further along the River Thames.
