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Photos: Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur Eliasson

October 29, 2011 //
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"Your Rainbow Panorama" The 360° multi-coloured glass viewing walkway on the roof of ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Quintin Lake

Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur Eliasson on the roof of ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum, Denmark. Photo: Quintin Lake

Panorama of Aarhus beyond. Photo: Quintin Lake

Underside of Your Rainbow Panorama walkway. Photo: Quintin Lake

Inside of Your Rainbow Panorama coloured walkway by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Quintin Lake

Inside of Your Rainbow Panorama coloured walkway by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Quintin Lake

Inside of Your Rainbow Panorama coloured walkway by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Quintin Lake

Inside of Your Rainbow Panorama coloured walkway by Olafur Eliasson. Photo: Quintin Lake

“Your Rainbow Panorama” is a Rainbow-coloured glass walkway on the roof of the Danish art museum ARoS Aarhus Kuntsmuseum, by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The permanent piece consists of a 150-metre-long and three-metre-wide self-contained circular walkway with glass that moves through all of the colours of the spectrum. The 52-metre-diameter walkway “floats” 3.5 metres above the roof and stretches like a multi-coloured halo — supported by 12 slender columns. The piece opened to the public on 28 May, 2011. In order to access the walkway, visitors can take stairs or a lift from the museum in order to appreciate a panoramic view tinted in different colours.Eliasson describes the work:

Your Rainbow panorama establishes a dialogue with the existing architecture and reinforces what was already there, that is to say the view across the city. I have created a space that can almost be said to erase the boundary between inside and outside — a place where you become a little uncertain as to whether you have stepped into a work of art or into part of the museum. This uncertainty is important to me, as it encourages people to think and sense beyond the limits within which they are accustomed to function.”

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photographs © Quintin Lake

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Gehry House Photo featured in V&A Postmodernism Exhibition

October 26, 2011 //
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Interior of Postmodernism: Style and Subversion Exhibition at the V&A Museum. Photo: Dezeen

Gehry House, by Frank Gehry, Santa Monica. Photograph featured in V&A Postmodernism Exhibition. Photo: Quintin Lake

My photo of  Frank Gehry’s Santa Monica house is printed alongside other icons of  deconstructionist architecture by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. The curators were keen to include Gehry’s residence as it symbolizes an “early venture in bricolage and the postmodern”. The house built in 1978 represented the first and radical steps of Deconstructivist movement in architecture more info and photos on the building.

My personal sentiments on postmodernism which developed as an architecture student are encapsulated by Alastair Sooke who wrote in the Telegraph

Charles Jencks, the architectural theorist credited with inventing the term “postmodernism”, once pointed out that what is exciting and avant-garde one moment tends to feel like old hat the next. No doubt he is right: younger generations often berate the immediate past to assert their own identity. Even so, walking through the V&A’s new exhibition, which traces the rise and fall of postmodernism across different disciplines during the Seventies and Eighties, I was tempted to ask: has there ever been a more irritating movement in the history of art and design?”

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-1990
24 September 2011 – 15 January 2012 at V&A South Kensington info

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Categories Architectural Photography, Documentary Photography, Fine Art Photography, Photography, Publications / Tearsheets

Ashampstead Nativity Greetings Card

October 20, 2011 //
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Ashampstead Nativity Greetings Card available at St Clement's Church. Photo: Quintin Lake

St Clement’s Church, Ashampstead, Berkshire contains fine medieval wall paintings dating from c1250. These four Holy Infancy scenes with their decorative heading are in the nave. They illustrate The Annunciation, The Visitation, The Nativity and the Appearance of the Angels to the Shepherds. The paintings were defaced and covered over at the time of the Reformation. they were rediscovered in 1886 and are now being conserved.

The wall-paintings were specially photographed to reveal the maximum amount of detail in the originals. More images from the photoshoot

Also available at St Clement’s Church are a set of 6 different postcards of the Nativity and a folded card. Proceeds from the sale of the cards go to the maintenance of the church. Map showing location of the Church

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Categories Architectural Photography, Documentary Photography, Photography

The City of London, Architectural Tradition & Innovation in the Square Mile

October 20, 2011 //
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The City of London: Architectural Tradition & Innovation in the Square Mile, Thames & Hudson. Authors: Michael Hall, Kenneth Powell, Alan Powers, Aileen Reid. Editor: Sir Nicholas Kenyon.

I was delighted to be one of the View Picture Agency architectural photographers commisioned to capture the images for this book. The fascinating buildings that I photographed for the book include : Fox’s umbrella Shop, Ironmongers’ Hall, Postoffice Park, General Post Office Headquarters, Overseas Bankers Club & Snow Hill Police Station.

The City of London is a major illustrated celebration of the architecture and of the Square Mile. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an historical overview of the Citys development, the main part of the book is divided into 8 chapters, each devoted to a particular district of the City. Each chapter begins with a 1,500-word introduction (with a specially commissioned map of the district as well as additional illustrations) and then includes approximately 25 entries on individual buildings and urban spaces such as squares and public gardens. Each entry is illustrated with 24 images, including specially commissioned exterior and interior photographs and selected archival images provided by the London Metropolitan Archives and other City sources. In total, there are approximately 200 entries, including major landmarks such as St Pauls Cathedral and 20th-century developments such as the Barbican, and each of the bridges that connects the City with the South Bank. The Tower of London, although not technically in the City, is also covered, as its history has been so bound up with that of the Square Mile.

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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: October ’11

October 19, 2011 //
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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

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Photos: Culture Yard at Helsigor, Denmark

September 21, 2011 //
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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

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Calatrava Print for Acciona Infrastructure Office, Vancouver

September 21, 2011 //
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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

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UNINTENTION Exhibition, Wolstenholme Creative Space, Liverpool

September 20, 2011 //
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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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