People stand in an area of the new Switch House building extension to the Tate Modern gallery in London, on June 14, 2016. The court ruled Wednesday that a viewing platform at London's Tate Modern art gallery made residents of glass-walled luxury apartments next door feel like animals in a zoo, and impeded "the ordinary use and enjoyment" of their homes.
"It is not difficult to imagine how oppressive living in such circumstances would feel for any ordinary person -- much like being on display in a zoo," he wrote in the court's majority ruling. Tate Modern opened in 2000 in a former power station on the south bank of the River Thames. It helped transform the surrounding Bankside neighbourhood from a riverside backwater into an arts and nightlife hub dotted with luxury apartment towers.
The gallery said residents could solve the problem by drawing their blinds or putting up curtains -- and judges at the High Court and Court of Appeal agreed.
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