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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
Super Superficial Earlham Street Store. T-shirt boutique designed by Sang Lee Architecture. Located at 22 Earlham Street, Covent Garden London, UK
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Super Superficial "Head-in-the-clouds' Lightbox Sign
Designer t-shirts arranged on hangers and timber shelves
Monochrome t-shirts
Stairs leading down to Gallery 7
Super Superficial cloud logo on the rail
Spectrum of t's
Glossy black shop exterior
The interior is part sauna, part asian sliding screen
The listed building is characteristic of Covent Garden, London
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
My photograph of the cast iron interior of Abbey Mills Pumping Station Interior was chosen for the cover of recently published book “Into the Belly of the Beast: Exploring London’s Victorian Sewers” by Dr Paul Dobraszczyk published by Spire books.
Into the belly of the beast is a rare pleasure within books on subterranean London and Victorian architecture in that is combines real academic meat, in an easily readable manner, with extensive and sumptuous illustrations. Thus the book can be equally enjoyed as a visual feast or read as a continuous narrative. Paul Dobraszczyk shows us the unexpected fact that the methods of describing and drawing these vast underground spaces at the time of their inception were not the disinterested studies we might expect, but hint at wider aspirations of the Victorian age which he further illuminates in his description of their most noticeable architectural expression, the great pumping stations. An essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone interested in London or Victorian architecture and engineering.
The cover photograph shows Interior of the old Abbey Mills Pumping Station (Station A) showing wrought iron metalwork and modern vertical motors that replaced the original steam beam engine.Located in Abbey Lane, London E15, the building is a sewerage pumping station, designed by engineer Joseph Bazalgette, Edmund Cooper, and architect Charles Driver, it was built between 1865 and 1868 after an outbreak of cholera in 1853 and “The Great Stink” of 1858. It was designed in a cruciform plan, with an elaborate Byzantine style, described as The Cathedral of Sewage. The pumps raise the sewage in the London sewerage system between the two Low Level Sewers and the Northern Outfall Sewer, which was built in the 1860s to carry the increasing amount of sewage produced in London away from the centre of the city.
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Architecture and Interiors Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Richard Wentworth: Untitled. 2009 Installation, walking sticks 53rd Venice Biennale, 7 June – 22 November 2009
Arsenale– Fare Mondi // Making Worlds. Central international exhibition, curated by Daniel Birnbaum.
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See more photography by Quintin Lake in the book Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed with a foreword by Richard Wentworth
Text & Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
Richard Wentworth: Untitled. 2009 Installation, books, iron and steel cable (hanging books) 53rd Venice Biennale, 7 June – 22 November 2009
Giardini – Fare Mondi // Making Worlds. Central international exhibition, curated by Daniel Birnbaum.
View the entire Richard Wentworth Hanging Books photoshoot here
See more photography by Quintin Lake in the book Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed with a foreword by Richard Wentworth
Text & Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
An architectural photography assignment for Atkins Architecture.
The £4.7 million West Thurrock Primary School is based on a triangular plan with a circulation corridor that includes a library and social spaces. The IT centre is unusual for this age group, known as the ‘fishbowl’ the room has been designed with special windows giving glimpses in and out.
The photographic brief was to show the pupils using the school, emphasising movement where possible and the architecture of the building for Atkins Education marketing.
View the photoshoot exteriors here interiors here and dusk here
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
An assignment to photograph three seminal buildings by British architect James Stirling for an upcoming book written by Alan Berman and published by Frances Lincoln featuring essays by prominent contemporary architects. The book will be titled “Jim Stirling: The Red Trilogy, three radical buildings and why they matter”.
The three buildings to be featured in the book are The Florey Building at Oxford University, The History Faculty Building at Cambridge University and the Engineering Building at Leicester University.
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Engineering Building, Leicester University by James Stirling Architect
Detail of Engineering Building, Leicester University by James Stirling Architect
See more architectural photography in my book Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed
Text & Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
German design agency Anzinger Wüschner Rasp selected Quintin Lake’s architectural texture photographs from Dubrovnik, Shanghai, Seoul and Kyoto to illustrate the international nature of the business of Hannover Re, one of the leading reinsurance groups in the world, in their 2008 Annual Report. The previous year’s annual report featured photographs by Yann Arthus-Bertrand.
Download a PDF of the report in German here and English here.
Facade of Galleria Fashion Store, Seoul, South Korea
Lights above Nanjing East Road, Shanghai, China
Detail Roof tiles Dubrovnik, Croatia
Bamboo fence next to Nijo Castle, Kyoto, Japan
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
An architectural photography assignment for Atkins Design Studio for inclusion on their website and marketing material.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
An architectural photography assignment for Atkins for inclusion in their annual report.
This photoshoot makes optimum use use of the the glowing sky at dusk and tilt/shift lenses to correct perspective distortion which enhance the clean modern lines of the building.
The new £12 million Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre is one of a small number of specialist public facilities which house & preserve the ancient documents, objects and archaeology of the United Kingdom in local centres overseen by the National Archives of England. It carries out important custodial, educational and promotional roles in a super modern holistic 21st Century Library, Archive & History Centre.
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See more architectural photography by Quintin Lake in the book Drawing Parallels, Architecture Observed
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2009
