The new extension at Tate St Ives is a deft feat of engineering – chiselled 15 metres down into granite bedrock – but local refusal to embrace the gallery has turned what could have been a boon into a muted and confused outcome, writes Oliver Wainwright.
"Stop the Tate” was the slogan emblazoned across posters in the windows of St Ives in 2005, when the seaside art gallery unveiled its plans to expand. The museum was getting too big for its boots, claimed curtain-twitching critics, and losing touch with the character of the small Cornish town. Twelve years and £20m later, the.. Keep reading on The Guardian