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This photoshoot was commissioned by Francis Lincoln Publisher for the upcoming book “Jim Stirling and the Red Trilogy: Three Radical Buildings” edited by Alan Berman. View the entire photoshoot here.
Charles Jencks describes the project in the chapter ‘James Sirling or Function made Manifest’ in the book ‘The modern movements in Architecture’ thus:
“Yet it was not until their next scheme, the leicester Engineering Building, that they [Stirling & Gowan] developed their idiom in complete maturity. Instead of drawing in perspective they switched to a bird’s eye view which could analyse and dissect the whole project showing the underlying anatomy. This method of drawing really is a method of designing for it allows the architect to work out the space, structure, geometry, function and detail altogether and without distortion.”
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Axonometric style, Aerial view of Leicester University, Engineering Building
The cantilevered lecture theatre, Leicester University, Engineering Building, Designed by James Stirling Architect, Completed 1959
The water tower sits atop glazed seminar rooms which runs at 45 degrees to the workshops
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Into Silent Skies #1. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells
Into Silent Skies #4. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells
Into Silent Skies #5. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
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The roof is constructed of a series of precast concrete “shells”. The roofs of the Sydney Opera House are covered in a subtle chevron pattern with 1,056,006 glossy white- and matte-cream-colored Swedish-made glazed ceramic tiles from Höganäs AB though, from a distance, the shells appear a uniform white.
Abstract image of the tiled fan pattern on two shells of the roof of Sydney Opera House
Abstract image of the tiled fan pattern of the roof Sydney Opera
Abstract image of the tiled fan pattern of the roof Sydney Opera
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
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Mackenzies Point lookout, Hunter Park lookout on the Coogee to Bondi Coastal Path
Sesquicentenary Boardwalk, part of the Coogee to Bondi beach Coastal path
Coogee to Bondi beach Coastal path in Mackenzies bay, Sydney
The "Rony Giuliano" Green, Clovelly Bowling Club above the Tasmin Sea by the Bondi to Coogee Coastal path
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
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A silver birch tree grows through the floor on the terrace of Hotel Polissia. The hammer and sickle is visible atop the distant building
Light switches in a bedroom of Hotel Polissia. The peeling paint is the result of 21 years decay.
Lobby of Hotel Polissia. The check-in desk is in the background. Marble wall cladding has been removed by looters.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2007
The skyline of downtown CBD Sydney seen from the Botanical Gardens at dusk.
The photograph includes the architecturally prominent buildings: Deutsche Bank Place. Architect: Norman Foster of Foster and Partners (triangular form). Chifley Tower. Architect: Kohn Pedersen Fox (centre) Aurora Place. Architect: Renzo Piano (curved form)
Downtown Sydney at dusk with Flying Fox Bats
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BridgeClimb participants and guide on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia
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The Waverley Cemetery opened in 1877 and is a cemetery located on top of the cliffs at Bronte in the eastern suburbs of Sydney. It is noted for its largely intact Victorian and Edwardian monuments. The cemetery contains the graves of many significant Australians including and the poet Henry Lawson and Australia’s first Prime Minister, Sir Edmund Barton, who is interred at South Head.
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Graves in Waverley Cemetery overlooking the Pacific Ocean
Architecturally, Waverley Cemetery is significant in that it showcases examples of Stonemasonry and funerary art dating back from the 19th century,with features (such as the gates, buildings and fencing) that due to their intact nature are considered of outstanding aesthetic value.
Cross memorial in front of graves at Waverley Cemetery
Poetically, the juxtaposition of the tombs and memorials overlooking the pacific ocean of the sea makes the cemetery a unique place. The cemetery is a popular tourist attraction and is on the route of Bondi to Coogee coastal walk.
Row of graves at Waverley Cemetery, Sydney
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
The remarkable wind-sculpted sandstone rock formations a short walk south from Bondi beach on the coast walk between Bondi & Coogee via Bronte beach. Sydney, New South, Wales, Australia. ”Bondi” or “Boondi” is an Aboriginal word meaning water breaking over rocks or noise of water breaking over rocks.
Sensual and suggestive in their abstract form and subtle ochre palette the rocks make an exquisite natural sculpture.
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Detail of Bondi Rocks #1 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #2 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #4 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #7 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #10 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #14 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #15 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #17 Sydney, Australia
Detail of Bondi Rocks #19 Sydney, Australia
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Pick Up Sticks Enterprises, Studio & Workshop of Architect & Artist Christopher Dukes, Kingsford, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
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Sculpture detail made from weathered timber off cuts
Workshop interior
Two states of consciousness: the awakened state & the state of self-identification
Plants through the window
A Tale of Two Cities: Christopher Dukes
Drawing board in the studio
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
