Tate St Ives Interiors

 This is the final post from our trip to Cornwall recording the clean lines of the interior architecture of Tate St Ives gallery and definitely showing the Gasometer heritage with curves, columns and cross bars.

Penzance in the Rain

On Wednesday, we took the local bus from St Ives to Penzance and spent a few hours exploring the town. The High street has a lot of empty shops but also some attractive side alleys and houses. There are a couple of very attractive parks and the Jubilee Pool, the UK's largest art deco sea water lido, originally opened in 1935. It was the first to have a geothermally heated pool at 30-35 degrees from an underground well. The rain cleared in the afternoon and we made our way to Marazion

 

Tate St Ives

One of the reasons I chose  St Ives area of Cornwall for our shortbreak was to visit the Tate St Ives Gallery with its impressive architecture.

"It is built on the site of a former gasworks overlooking Porthmeor Beach and the Atlantic Ocean. Originally opening in 1993, architects Eldred Evans and David Shalev building echoes the shapes of the former gasworks, including the ‘rotunda’ that forms the heart of the gallery.  In 2017 architect Jamie Fobert designed a major extension with a new gallery sunk deep into the cliffs. The exterior responds to the natural forms of the coastline and their clay is pale sandy yellow, with blue and green glazes that capture the ever-changing Cornish weather and blend into the hues of the sea beyond."

Exploring St Ives

A beautiful warm sunny October Day to explore St Ives and take some photos. Here a few view - some with alternative treatments, exposures or taken at different times of day. The Church has a very unusual Rerebos screen made of alabaster and the public toilets look like a small chapel. I like all the small alleyways and steps, many of them with plants and pots decorating them.

Sunrise on St Ives Bay

Our hotel in St Ives overlooks the beach so a couple of images from the window this morning before going down onto the beacharound 7am. It started overcast allowing some long exposures of the waves in both directions with beautiful green, blue and orange tones. Gradually the sky cleared and, as the sun came up, the colours changed to golden tones.