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.

Gale Force Winds at Penzance (30th October)

 A very windy day for Phil's birthday (last Thursday) - I did manage to get my lighthouse image before the conditions got too bad. The developing storm certainly blew away all the cobwebs and would have taken me with them had a passing man not grabbed me and escorted me to a sheltering wall. 

CCC Outing to Eddington, Cambridge

Some of the newer (and more established!!) members of Cambridge Camera Club explored the West side of Cambridge yesterday including Eddington which is a new sustainable development to the west of Cambridge that normally is only noticed when using the Madingley Park and Ride or visiting Sainsbury's. 

The architecture from a distance is very uniform and potentially very uninteresting to photograph but closer it becomes apparent that a lot of effort has gone into giving each building individuality - for instance the 'randomly' staggered windows in the first image and the different window shapes and sizes in the second. I did not spend as long as I intended on the buildings as we decided to head to the lake while the light was good. The meshwork tower near the lake in the bright sunlight was an intriguing subject  (Sony RX100 converted to 720nm infrared).

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."