Sneha Shah: The AI era demands redesign, not optimisation

Bankside Power Station sat empty on the Thames for two decades. When architects Herzog and de Meuron were commissioned, they did not try to modernise the power station; they accepted that its first job, generating electricity for London, was finished. Instead, they preserved the elements that defined its identity: the chimney, the turbine hall, and the brick shell. Then they opened it up to light, people, and art, reimagining its purpose entirely—from generating power for a city to generating culture for the world. That building became the Tate Modern, now the most visited modern art gal...