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Location:
Europe,
United Kingdom,
Newcastle
Category:
City / Bridge view
Description:
View of the
The Sage Gateshead, traffic on Tyne
Bridge, and activity on Newcastle
Quayside.
Location Information:
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 curved 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.
Planning for the centre began in the
early 1990s, when the Northern
Sinfonia orchestra, with
encouragement from Northern Arts,
began working on plans for a new
concert hall. They were soon joined
by regional folk music development
agency Folkworks, which
ensured that the needs of the
region's traditional music were
taken into consideration; folk music
is well-represented in the Sage's
programme of events, alongside
classical, jazz, acoustic, indie,
country, world, electronic and
dance. Practice spaces for
professional musicians, students and
amateurs were an important part of
the provision. Sarah Ellis Cliff
The planning and construction
process cost over £70 million, which
was raised primarily through
National Lottery grants. The
contractor was Laing O'Rourke[3].
The centre has a range of patrons,
notably Sage Group plc which
contributed a large sum of money to
have the building named after it.
Sage plc has helped support the
charitable activities of The Sage
Gateshead since its conception.
The Sage Gateshead is also available
as a conference venue: for example
it hosted the Labour Party's Spring
conference in February 2005. In
August 2009, the National Union of
Students announced that their 2010
and National Conferences would
be held at the Sage Gateshead.
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