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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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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
BridgeClimb participants and guide on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, 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
An architectural photography assignment for Julia Haensel Architecture documenting an exquisite almost-not-there glass walled meditation space in a garden in Richmond, London, England.
All building materials were brought into the tight garden site by hand via a narrow passage.
The 4 x 8 x 3.2 meter steel & glass meditation and contemplation space is based on Vastu principles. The construction was originally instigated by (Swami) Sri Kaleshwar. The buddha is a 16th century Khmer statue.
The shoot emphasised the quality of architectural detailing and the interplay of reflections with the transparency of the glass walls.
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See more architectural photography by Quintin Lake in the book Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
Walthamstow, London
Gates from the cloisters of All Souls college cast shadows on Radcliffe Square, Oxford. This might be a rare moment when the the quod: that great British architectural invention of exclusion, offers a pubic gesture. All souls is a graduate college and is made up of top finalists from the rest of the university from which two are chosen each year.
