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Auditorium & Art Gallery take shape along Brewer Street

St Ebbes Accommodation at left and Roger Bannister building behind white sheeting.

Auditorium / Art Gallery seen from New St Ebbes street accommodation

Auditorium / Art Gallery seen from New St Ebbes street accommodation

Measuring concrete form work

Measuring concrete form-work

New accommodation block at Rose Place

Preparing concrete form-work

Stairs from the Brewer Street bridge (not yet on site) that will link the two sites together

Stairs from the Brewer Street bridge (not yet on site) that will link the two sites together

New Brewer Street Accommodation block, street facade

New St Ebbes Street Accommodation block, street facade

These photographs are part of an ongoing monthly assignment to document the building work at Pembroke College, Oxford due for completion summer 2012.  View all previous posts of the Pembroke College Bridging Centuries Project >>

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011

The Shard London during construction (September 2010) behind Norman Foster's City Hall, seen from London Bridge at dusk. Architect: Renzo Piano, Engineer: WSP, Contractor: Mace. Photo: Quintin Lake

The Shard London is presently at a particularly satisfying state of incompletion as the tip of the construction crane marks the apex of the soon to be completed tower. Designed by architect Renzo Piano Building Workshop the 310m tower is due for completion in 2012 when the skyscraper is set to become Europe’s tallest tower.

Know an interesting viewpoint of The Shard? let me know in the comments below…





Kulturvaerftet, Culture Yard, Helsigor, Denmark. Architect: Aart

These photos were commissioned by Søren Jensen, the engineering firm of the project.

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011

Nick Barnett preparing my Arctic Landscape alu float frame prints for delivery at Bayeux, London

Reverse of the frame showing the aluminium channel that spaces the print off the wall

More info on these frames and photos of how they look on the wall. More info on the Arctic Landscape series

Print of Oriente Station, Lisbon for Acciona Infrastructure's office in Vancouver, Canada.

A 1.2 x 1.6m print of my photo of Oriente Station commissioned for Acciona Infrastructure Inc’s Vancouver Office. Acciona is the global infrastructure firm who worked on the Oriente Station and wanted wall art of their projects.
Thanks to John Bone for the photo of installation.
More info on the building

Concert Hall, from Pripyat: 21 Year after Chernobyl Series © Quintin Lake

I’m delighted to be participating in this exhibition & event, here’s the blurb:

UNINTENTION explores the ways in which creativity can manipulate and reinvent the purpose behind ideas, objects, web-sharing, personal and world events. Works include a satirical rehash of a presidential television broadcast by filmmaker Chris Morris; as well as an immersive display of projected stills from the collection Pripyat: 21 Years After Chernobyl by architectural photographer Quintin Lake, documenting both the initial aftermath of the nuclear disaster and the change in its environment since.

Along with the show as a whole, the works use existing material by changing their original intentions; a leaders broadcast becomes a skilled re-edit ridden with satire; the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, via its documentation, inevitably becomes a collection of photographic art. Other new and existing works in the show will include; the focus of normal practical objects being turned into pieces of visual art; a short video art piece encompassing a well known graffiti love-note from the walls of the infamous Park Hill flats in Sheffield; and various pieces looking at Internet Memes and considering their place in the art world.

UNINTENTION  @ WCS | Wolstenholme Creative Space | 11 Wolstenholme Square | Liverpool | L1 4JJ

Preview | 28 September 2011, 6-9pm

Exhibition | 29 September – 2 October 2011, 12-4pm

Admission FREE

UNINTENTION Closing Night Event | 2 October 2011

7pm | The Light Bulb Conspiracy  Admission FREE

Film collective, Tea and Two Slice, present The Light Bulb Conspiracy documentary screening + free tea and toast!

8:30pm | Ruins Alone + live performances  Admission £4

In partnership with WCS, I Am Your Barber, Postmusic and Samzidat present live performances from:

RUINS ALONE (skin graft) Legendary Japanese drum god, showcasingp;the works of Ruins, Koenjihyakkei in his mind melting solo performance

STIG NOISE DIY mariachi trumpet fuelled noise nonsense since 1998

BARBEROS Duel drumming, synth wielding, spandex sporting electro doom jazz noise hollering perverts

The live performances will also include live visuals by video artist Sam Wiehl, manipulating Internet Memes once again reinventing their intention and allowing the meme to evolve within the art gallery setting.

Further Info:

www.wolstenholmecreativespace.com/unintention

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=273447039348731

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Photography  © Quintin Lake, 2011

Progress as of September 2011: 65 of 196 (33%) of world's countries visited shown in red

“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
Aldous Huxley

I recently made the mistake of buying a large wall map of the world with a view to plot past travels and plan future journeys which has had the unintended effect of making me realise I’ve visited a third of the world’s countries and that I’d like to try to visit the remaining two-thirds while I still have the energy. My working title for this travel photography project is “Looking Here & There” which may become a book or an exhibition.

My goal is to complete this odyssey by 2025 when I’ll be aged 50 and god willing, some of the world’s most dangerous countries will become less so by then. This equates to travelling to around nine countries a year which I think is achievable in a few months per year. My intention is to fund the travel as I have done for the previous few years via architectural photography assignments, fine art prints and producing books and exhibitions.

My choice on the number of world countries for this adventure is based on the 193 UN member sates plus Vatican City & Kosovo (both UN observer states) and Taiwan which is treated by the international community as an independent country, bringing the total to 196.

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ”
Henry Miller

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