Architectural Photography Blog | Quintin Lake

Photographs of Leicester University Engineering Building, Designed by James Stirling Architect

Quintin Lake — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:48:44 +0000

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

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Into Silent Skies. Images of Sydney Opera House Roof Shells, Australia

Quintin Lake — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:50:10 +0000

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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

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

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Abstract images of the tiled fan pattern on the roof Sydney Opera House, Australia

Quintin Lake — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 02:46:30 +0000

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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

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

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Bondi to Coogee Coastal Walk land and seascape images, Sydney

Quintin Lake — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:51:11 +0000

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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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Photographs of the abandoned Hotel Polissia in Pripyat the radioactive Ghost Town next to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant

Quintin Lake — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 18:02:57 +0000

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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

Filed under: Abandoned Architecture, Architectural Details, Architectural Photography, Expedition Photography, Interiors Photography, Travel Photography

Photograph of Downtown Sydney Skyline at Dusk as Flying Fox Bats fly overhead

Quintin Lake — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:23:07 +0000

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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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

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BridgeClimb participants and guide on the steel structure of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia

Quintin Lake — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 03:19:48 +0000

BridgeClimb participants and guide on the Sydney Harbour Bridge, Sydney, Australia

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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010

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Photographs of Waverley Cemetery overlooking the pacific Ocean, Sydney, Australia

Quintin Lake — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:16:05 +0000

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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Photographs of Bondi Rocks | wind-sculpted sandstone rock formations | Sydney, Australia

Quintin Lake — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:47:37 +0000

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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Pick Up Sticks Enterprises | Studio & Workshop of Architect & Artist Christopher Dukes. Sydney, Australia

Quintin Lake — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 03:26:27 +0000

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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