Detail of West front of St Paul's Cathedral, London. Completed 1697 by architect Sir Christopher Wren.
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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
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…
A visualisation of the folded roof of Godsbanen, The Freight Yard Project. Image by 3XN Architects
Construction of reinforced concrete roof. Photo: Quintin Lake
An visualisation of the roof of Godsbanen set between existing freight halls. Image by 3XN Architects
The new building provides a link between the two freight halls. Photo: Quintin Lake
The ridge area around the roof-lights adds to the structural stiffness of the roof. Photo: Quintin Lake
The reinforcing bars on the apex of the roof. Photo: Quintin Lake
The roof creates a new public landscape between the old freight halls. Olafur Eliasson's "Your Rainbow Panorama" visible at right. Photo: Quintin Lake
Wavy reinforcing steel provides stiffness against shear forces in the new roof. Photo: Quintin Lake
The main new building contains two new concert halls. The reinforced concrete ramp to the roof is being constructed in the foreground. Photo: Quintin Lake
Temporary concrete shuttering allows for the construction of the building's faceted angles. Photo: Quintin Lake
Sections of the freight yard's original rail tracks. Photo: Quintin Lake
Sound insulated recording studio in the old freight halls. Photo: Quintin Lake
The striking laminated timber beams of the original freight hall. A music venue being constructed at the rear. Photo: Quintin Lake
These images show the construction, as of June 2011, for a new cultural hub for scenography, visual arts and literature named Godsbanen /The Freight Yard Project that is being built within a historical framework in Denmark’s second largest city, Aarhus. The new cultural center is meant to be an inspiring setting that stimulates production of the arts and facilitates the interaction amongst the various artistic metiers, business and education.
The project design by Architects 3XN in collaboration with Søren Jensen Engineers is comprised of the renovation of the existing freight halls along with a new building with rooms and large scale auditoria. The roof of the building will appear as an extension of the green space – and will take the form of a green ‘carpet’ over the new building. The project is expected to be completed in 2012.
These photos were commissioned by Søren Jensen, the engineering firm of the project.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2011
Portuguese Pavilion, Expo 1998, Lisbon. Architect, Alvaro Siza. Two powerful, 15-metre high columns support the no more than 20-centimetre thick concrete ceiling which is reinforced by stainless steel cables set in the walls hanging overhead like a great sail. Photo: Quintin Lake
Portuguese Pavilion, Expo 1998, Lisbon. Architect, Alvaro Siza. Photo: Quintin Lake
Glazed tiles on the Portuguese Pavilion, Expo 1998, Lisbon. Architect, Alvaro Siza. Photo: Quintin Lake
The Pavilion of Portugal in Expo 1998 designed by Portuguese architect Alvaro Siza with the contribution of Eduardo Souto de Moura makes reinforced concrete seem weightless with the building’s elegant sail-like roof.
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2011
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Roof of the Sage Gateshead reflecting passing clouds on a sunny day. Photo: Quintin Lake
A minute change in the passing clouds changes the appearance and illuminates the edge of the stainless steel panels. Photo: Quintin Lake
The silky appearance on an overcast day. Photo: Quintin Lake
Sensuous curves on the roof of Sage Gateshead. Photo: Quintin Lake
Detail of roof design of the Sage Gateshead. Photo: Quintin Lake
Tyne Bridge over the River Tyne, Newcastle with view to Gateshead Millennium Bridge, The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art and Sage Gateshead. Photo: Quintin Lake
Designed by architect Foster and Partners and engineer Buro Happold the faceted roof of the Sage Gateshead concert hall changes appearance as it reflects the changeable british weather looking equally alluring on an overcast day or in bright sunlight. The roof of the Sage consists of 3,000 panels made from stainless steel and 250 made of glass. Each stainless steel panel has a linen finish to reduce the glare and is about four metres long and a metre wide. Each panel is solid and designed to prevent noise from heavy rain causing a distraction during concert performances.
Like these? See my photographs of architectural details of Utzon’s Sydney Opera House and Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2011
Art Magazine Spring 04 2011
Drawing Parallels: Architecture Observed review by George Ferguson
There is something almost edible about Quintin Lake’s Architectural Photographs which have been arranged in pairs for the viewer to draw associations. This book is all about looking and learning but not lecturing. I am delighted to discover that doors in Iran traditionally have two knockers, one with a heavy loud sound announcing a man’s arrival and one with a lighter sound announcing a woman.
I now know that the lawn, railing and cobbles in an Oxford Square strike similar note as the curved concrete ribs of Oscar Niemeyer’s Copan building in Sao Paulo.
There is much more to discover in this deliciously designed book for which the publisher Alexandra Papadakis, who studied architecture, should share the credit. I am tempted to place it on my bookshelves with food rather than architecture and I am absolutely resolved to get a better Camera. George Ferguson
House & Garden Magazine, April 2011
Meditation chapel by Millar Howard Workshop from the feature Design Ideas | Garden Rooms. Photos: Quintin Lake
See more photos of the Meditation Chapel here. Visit architects Millar Howard Workshop here.
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