David Chipperfield’s Turner Contemporary in Margate will become the first modern building to feature on a British banknote.

At the seaside art gallery yesterday, Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, unveiled the design of the new £20 note which will come into circulation on February 20. 

Celebrating the artist JMW Turner, who was a regular visitor to Margate, it includes a transparent window with blue and gold foil on the front depicting the £17.5mbuilding, as well as Margate’s lighthouse.

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