7200 x 2428 px | 61 x 20,6 cm | 24 x 8,1 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
28. November 2008
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The Sage Gateshead is a centre for musical education, performance and conferences, located in Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne, in the north-east of England. It opened in 2004. The venue is part of the Gateshead Quays development, which also includes the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The centre occupies a "curvy glass and stainless steel" building designed by Foster and Partners, Buro Happold (structural engineering), Mott MacDonald (building services) and Arup (acoustics), with views of Newcastle and Gateshead Quaysides, the Tyne Bridge, and the Gateshead Millennium Bridge. The planning and construction process cost over £70 million, which was raised primarily through National Lottery grants. The contractor was Laing O'Rourke. The centre has a range of patrons, notably The Sage Group plc who contributed a large amount of money to have the building in their name. Sage Plc have helped support the charitable activities of The Sage Gateshead since conception. The venue opened over the weekend 17 – 19 December 2004. Rather than open in traditional fashion with a gala concert, The Sage Gateshead offered free admission to an opening weekend showcasing a variety of performers in diverse styles, [2] in keeping with its philosophy that no genre of music should be valued above another. The Sage Gateshead is also available as a conference venue, and hosted the Labour Party's Spring conference in February 2005. The Sage Gateshead contains three performance spaces; a 1, 700-seater, a 400-seater and a smaller rehearsal and performance hall, Northern Rock Foundation Hall. The rest of the building was designed around these three spaces to allow for maximum attention to detail in their acoustic properties.
