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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Drawing Parallels by Quintin Lake In the Architecture section of Tate Modern Bookshop, next to the turbine hall. Go grab a copy! or get it online here
Drawing Parallels by Quintin Lake in the Architecture section at Tate Modern Bookshop
Recession 2010: Parsonage Street, Dursley, Gloucestershire, England shops closed due to economic downturn.
Mortimer vacated shop window "Market Gardners since 1897" displaying paintings by a pet portrait artist, Dursley
Tots "2" Teens vacated shop window displaying Stroud Rambling Club information, Dursley
Unmarked vacated shop window, Parsonage Street, Dursley, Gloucestershire
Unmarked vacated shop window with Zippos Circus posters, Dursley
Boarded up 'Arpers the Frame Centre, Parsonage Street, Dursley
"Just to say..." Vacated shop window, Parsonage Street, Dursley
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Cotswold stone coloured Neighbourhood watch sign by a new housing development, North Nibley
Faux Cotswold rustic cul-de-sac housing development North Nibley, Gloucestershire
Limestone fronted detached family house in Weston Park, Bath
Rustic limestone fronted detached family house in Weston Park, Bath
Detached two storey house with garage in Weston Near Bath
Semi-detached concrete prefabricated house with tiled mansard roof in Weston, Near Bath
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Detail of left hand end of the The Royal Crescent, Bath, England, by Architect John Wood the Younger
The Royal Crescent is a residential road of 30 houses, laid out in a crescent, in the city of Bath, England. Designed by the architect John Wood the Younger and built between 1767 and 1774, it is among the greatest examples of Georgian architecture to be found in the United Kingdom and is a grade I listed building.
It was originally called just The Crescent and the adjective Royal was added at the end of the 18th century after Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany had lived at numbers 1 and 16. Like The Circus, The Royal Crescent is constructed from Bath Stone, a Limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Its warm, honey colouring gives the circus and much of Bath its distinctive appearance.
Pattern of the facade and railings at the The Royal Crescent, Bath, England, by Architect John Wood the Younger
Wood designed the great curved façade of what appears to be about 30 three storey houses with Ionic columns on a rusticated ground floor. The columns are 30 inches (76 cm) in diameter reaching 47 feet (14.3 m) and there are 114 in total, each with an entablature 5 feet (1.5 m) deep. The central house has two sets of coupled columns.
Each purchaser bought a certain length of the façade, and then employed their own architect to build a house to their own specifications behind it; hence what appears to be two houses is sometimes one. This system of town planning is betrayed at the rear of the crescent: while the front is completely uniform and symmetrical, the rear is a mixture of differing roof heights, juxtapositions and fenestration. This “Queen Anne fronts and Mary-Anne backs” architecture occurs repeatedly in Bath
VIEW MORE IMAGES of Royal Crescent, Bath, England, by Architect John Wood the Younger here
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Detail of The Circus, Bath, England, by Architect John Wood the Elder
The Circus is an example of Georgian architecture in the city of Bath, Somerset, England, begun in 1754 and completed in 1768. The name comes from the Latin ‘circus’, which means a ring, oval or circle
The Circus, was designed by the architect John Wood the Elder, although he never lived to see his plans put into effect as he died less than three months after the first stone was laid. It was left to his son, John Wood the Younger to complete the scheme to his father’s design.
The Circus, Bath, England, by Architect John Wood the Elder
Wood’s inspiration was the Roman Colosseum, but whereas the Colosseum was designed to be seen from the outside, the Circus faces inwardly. The circus consists of 3 storey townhouses and mansard. 3 or 4 windows. Divided into 3 blocks, all of the same size but each with a different number of houses. Three classical Orders, (Greek Doric, Roman/Composite and Corinthian) are used, one above the other, in the elegant curved facades. The masonry between columns is not curved but this is not apparent. The frieze of the Doric entablature is decorated with alternating triglyphs and 525 unique pictorial emblems in the metopes, including serpents, nautical symbols, devices representing the arts and sciences, and masonic symbols. The parapet is adorned with stone acorn finials.
Like The Royal Crescent, The Circus is constructed from Bath Stone, a Limestone comprising granular fragments of calcium carbonate. Its warm, honey colouring gives the circus and much of Bath its distinctive appearance.
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Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Mila Fürstová: Shelter of Memories
Interwoven Fragments of Etching & Mixed Media. 1.5 x1.5.x 2m, 2010
The Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England
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Shelter of Memories by Mila Furstova in The Royal West of England Academy.
Photography © Quintin Lake, 2010
Geometry & Silence 