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.
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