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Delight: Photos of Paula Rego Museum, Cascais, Portugal

By Quintin Lake
July 10, 2011 //
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Entrance view of Paula Rego Museum, Cascais, Portugal. 

The twin chimneys of the Casa das Historias.

The building is made from concrete that is coloured to reflect local terracotta.

The twin chimneys are inspired by chimneys at Sintra Palace.

Positive Negative. The concrete is shuttered with planks of timber in a herringbone pattern.

This beautiful building which opened in 2009 was designed by the architect Eduardo Souto de Moura and is called Casa das Histórias Paula Rego / Paula Rego – House of Stories. The twin chimneys of the Casa das Historias are inspired by chimneys at Sintra Palace and made from concrete that is coloured to reflect local terracotta, and shuttered with planks of timber in a herringbone pattern. Did concrete ever look so good?

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Delight: Photos of the Sage Gateshead faceted roof

By Quintin Lake
July 10, 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

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Photos: Steamship Manxman in Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland

By Quintin Lake
July 9, 2011 //
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Massive 181m x 49m Dry-dock in the Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland, UK, May 2011

Scrapping of Steamship Manxman in the Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland

Steamship Manxman in the Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland, UK

SS Manxman (1955-1982) in her heyday

Architect Jonathan Schwinge stands by Steamship Manxman in the Pallion Shipyard

Steamship Manxman in the Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland, UK, May 2011

Rusty stern of Steamship Manxman in the Pallion Shipyard prior to scrapping

The breathtakingly huge main dry-dock of the Pallion Shipyard, Sunderland is one of largest structures I’ve experienced and a bittersweet reminder of when Sunderland was one of the largest shipbuilding towns in the world.

In the boom year of the early 1900s, the yards employed over 12,000 men, a third of the town’s adult population. When the shipbuilding industry was nationalised in 1977, British Shipbuilders took over most of the larger yards. But competition from Japan and Korea was intense, and the yards suffered from shrinking order books. Despite heavy investment in new technology and massive protest, Sunderland’s last shipyards were closed down in 1988.

The air of melancholy is reinforced as the main 181m x 49m dock at Pallion currently holds the historic Isle of Man Steamship Manxman in the process of being scrapped after the result of an unsuccessful campaign to restore her.

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Photos featured in “Romanticism in the Urban Environment”, Portico Gallery, Manchester

By Quintin Lake
July 4, 2011 //
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Romanticism in the Urban Environment, Portico Gallery, Manchester

A silver birch tree grows through the floor on the terrace of Hotel Polissia. The hammer and sickle is visible atop the distant apartments. Photo © Quintin Lake

The exhibition will feature eleven of my photographs fom the series “Pripyat: 21 years after Chernobyl”  see more

Romanticism in the Urban Environment A multi-disciplinary exhibition of works by selected Fellows of the Royal Society of Arts. 

The theme of this exhibition is the urban landscape. The city can be seen as a living museum of past and present voices and ambitions… a romantic view of this landscape will be manifest in the artists’ emotional response to the history, the present, the future, the people and the vistas of the city.

This two-month long exhibition has been jointly curated by Charlotte Wand (for the Portico) and Lotte Karlsen (FRSA) and will feature work by: Adam Aaronson, Frank Creber,  PJ Crook,  Fiona Heron, Lotte Karlsen, Quintin Lake, Agnieszka Mlicka, Martin Stynes, Alan Yates

Exhibition Details:

The Portico Gallery, 57 Mosley Street, Manchester, M2 3HY
Previewing on Wednesday 6th July 2011, 6.00pm-8.00pm
Continues until Friday 26th August 2011
Monday – Friday, 9.30am – 4.30pm
Thursday late night until 7.30pm
Admission free

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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: June ’11

By Quintin Lake
June 20, 2011 //
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Pembroke College Hall, Kitchen & Forte Room Completion

By Quintin Lake
June 6, 2011 //
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Completed building work seen from St Ebbes Street. Forte Room (at left with new white windows) New Kitchen (at centre with new stone parapet) Renovated Hall (at rear) New Parking and Electricity plant (at front)

Pembroke College Hall After Renovation

Renovated hall with new underfloor heating, lighting and entrance to servery. Renovated floor paintwork and beams.

Renovated hall with new underfloor heating, lighting and entrance to servery. Renovated floor paintwork and beams.

Diners return to the renovated Pembroke College Hall

Diners return to the renovated Pembroke College Hall

Pembroke College New Kitchen 

Pembroke College Chefs in the new kitchen

Pembroke College Chef in the new kitchen

Pembroke College Chef in the new kitchen

Pembroke College Chef in the new kitchen

Pembroke College Chef in the new kitchen

Pembroke College Chef in the new kitchen

The New Servery

The New Servery

Pembroke College  New Forte Room 

New entrance to the Forte Room

Pembroke College Forte Room

Pembroke College Forte Room

Pembroke College New Bar 









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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: May ’11

By Quintin Lake
June 6, 2011 //
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Archaeologists at work inside the completed ring beam foundation prior to further excavation

Ring beam foundation (left) and foundation reinforcing steels prior to concrete pouring (right)

Ring beam foundation which connects to pile foundation prevents the soil collapsing inwards when the deep excavation begins

J.P Dunn Groundworks team preparing foundations adjacent to Brewer Street

Spraying timber for foundation shuttering to prevent concrete adhesion

Wire tying foundation reinforcing steel

Cutting timber for foundation shoring

J.P Dunn Groundworks team preparing foundations adjacent to Brewer Street

Fabricating foundation reinforcing steel mesh

A carpenter fabricates the foundation shoring

A team of archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology at work prior to further excavations

An archaeologist uncovers flooring in the centre of the site

Archaeological dig in the centre of the site

An archaeologist measures his excavation

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Pembroke College Brewer Street Project: April ’11

By Quintin Lake
June 6, 2011 //
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Geothermal boring (at centre) and fabrication of the main ring beam foundation (below)

Steel reinforcing bars prior to fabrication

The top of the pile foundations are broken up so the reinforcing steel can connect with the ring beam

Top of the pile foundation with the steels exposed

Geothermal drilling machine in operation

Valve and pipes emerging from a completed geothermal bore hole

Coloured safety markers on a pile foundation

The tower crane foundation will be mounted on a permanent concrete foundation

A carpenter descends the protected period stairwell of the Bannister Building

New services installation in the Bannister Building

Flooring removal in the Bannister Building

Strengthening of the structural timber wall in The Bannister Building

18th century timber, lath and plaster exposed in The Bannister Building

Bannister Building period chimney pots awaiting restoration of the chimney

Extensive timber restoration on the roof of the Bannister Building

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