The road behind Tate Fashionable in London has been closed to the general public after glass window panels fell from a residential high-rise.
The panels seem to have fallen from the Neo Bankside growth, with shattered glass seen on the bottom outdoors one the buildings in Holland Road. One panel fell on Monday morning round 9am and one the earlier evening, a safety guard instructed passers-by. Nobody appears to have been harm within the incidents.
One passer-by mentioned on X {that a} panel landed about 10ft away from her, leaving her feeling shocked. Guests to Tate Fashionable, which obtained 4.7 million guests final yr, had been being directed away from the positioning in direction of the primary Turbine Corridor entrance. All entrances are actually absolutely open and working usually, says a spokesperson.
The Neo Bankside growth was designed by the British agency Rogers StirkHarbour + Companions, co-founded by one of many architects of the Centre Pompidou, Richard Rogers. Some residents of the constructing had been concerned in a long-running dispute with Tate over the museum’s viewing gallery, which they mentioned allowed folks to see into their properties. Entry to the rear of the viewing gallery is now restricted.
In 2018, a person was killed when a window fell from a residential growth on Albert Embankment, additional alongside the River Thames.
