Tate paid Herzog & de Meuron reduced fee for Switch House extension

Herzog & de Meuron, the Swiss architecture firm behind the ambitious Tate Modern extension, took a reduced fee for work on the building project after costs went 45m over budget. According to documents obtained by the Architects Journal under the Freedom of Information act, Herzog & de Meuron was asked not to take its full fee for extra work on the 10-storey building, which went from costing 215m in 2012 to 260m in 2015. Conversation at a senior level indicates that [Herzog &am