Blob on the Tyne

摘要

Gateshead's Newest Musical venue is also Foster and Partners' inspired response to one of the most spectacular sites in any British city. Sitting on the brow of a hill, the sleek Sage Gateshead bulges out over the River Tyne flowing directly below it. Its billowing shape, evoking a gigantic sea shell, echoes the powerful steel arch on the Tyne Bridge to one side and its slender new companion - Wilkinson Eyre's "winking bridge" - to the other.