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 Sage Gateshead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sage Gateshead is a centre for musical education and performance, located in Gateshead on the south bank of the River Tyne, in the north-east of England.
The Sage Gateshead is also available as a conference venue, and it hosted the Labour Party's Spring conference in February 2005.
The Sage Gateshead was awarded the Local Authority Building of the Year in the 2005 British Construction Industry Awards and more recently the RIBA Award for Inclusive Design.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sage_Gateshead   (693 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
From the inception of the project, Gateshead Council’s aim was to deliver a building not only of the highest, acoustic quality, for all types of music, but also with a level of access significantly higher than the minimum statutory requirements and higher than many of the existing arts venues in the UK.
Gateshead Council, aided by local disabled people, together with all the project consultants and funding bodies, aimed to deliver a building that is fully accessible and inclusive to everyone.
The Sage Gateshead’s Access Panel had significant influence on issues relating to means of escape, passenger lifts, toilets, manifestation on glass, use of lighting and was not afraid to challenge contemporary access thinking.
www.cae.org.uk /casesage.html   (2622 words)

  
 WC facilities at The Sage Gateshead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The building represents a new landmark on Tyneside, and situated adjacent to the Stirling Prize-winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge and the Tyne Bridge, forms the heart of a project to regenerate the area’s river frontage.
The Sage Gateshead includes two auditoria, Halls One and Two, a rehearsal space, the Northern Rock Foundation Hall, and a 25-room Music Education Centre – each conceived as a separate enclosure.
Gateshead Council appointed as access consultant David Burdus, who worked on the project from inception to completion, and The Sage Gateshead Access Panel was established in 2000 to ensure disabled people’s input into the design process.
www.cae.org.uk /itaalsage.html   (593 words)

  
 Gateshead 2005 - International Society for the Performing Arts
The team that designed The Sage Gateshead worked in close partnership with the artists and their management who will administer the $130 million building and all of its programme.
This has created a building exceptionally responsive to the needs of its artists and programme, ensuring that The Sage Gateshead is one of the most fertile symbols of the cultural and economic renaissance of this characterful regional centre of northern England.
The Sage Gateshead is designed to house an exceptional equity and fluidity between the performance participation and education programme.
www.ispa.org /gateshead   (550 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | England | Tyne | First year celebrations for Sage
The £70m Sage Gateshead music centre dominates the banks of the Tyne with its curved roof of glass and steel.
Sage Gateshead director Anthony Sargent said these figures were 12% higher than expected and the feedback from visitors had also been very positive.
In its first year, the Sage Gateshead won acclaim for both its programme and management structure and its architecture, including the 2005 Local Authority Building of the Year in the British Construction Industry Awards.
news.bbc.co.uk /go/rss/-/1/hi/england/tyne/4537328.stm   (275 words)

  
 The Sage Group plc - Investor Centre - Corporate Announcements - Sage Group...
Sage Group to sponsor new international centre for music, “The Sage Ga...
The building, owned by Gateshead Council and managed and programmed by North Music Trust, is currently under construction and is scheduled for completion in 2003.
Sage will expense the related one-off sponsorship fee of £6 million (approximately £4 million after tax) to its profit and loss account for the financial year ending 30 September 2002.
www.sage.com /investors/announcement.php?id=32   (278 words)

  
 Culture In Education: WOMEX 2005 at The Sage Gateshead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Delegates from all over the planet will flock to The Sage Gateshead in the North East of England - a region that is proud and privileged to be hosting WOMEX 2005.
The Sage Gateshead has lobbied hard along with other key partners including Arts Council England to bring WOMEX to the region.
The creative heartbeat of The Sage Gateshead is to provide an international home for music and musical discovery, which is ultimately represented by the expectation and drive behind WOMEX 2005.
www.gatesheadgrid.org /culture/archives/002358.html   (715 words)

  
 Sage (UK) Limited - About Sage
Since our formation in 1981, Sage has grown rapidly to become the world’s leading supplier of business management software and related services to small and medium sized enterprises.
Sage sponsors new Music Centre in Gateshead for £6m - now known as The Sage Gateshead - this is the largest ever UK arts/business sponsorship.
Sage is the only remaining technology stock in the FTSE 100.
www.sage.co.uk /aboutsage/home.aspx?tid=142728   (199 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | In Pictures | In pictures: The Sage Gateshead
The Sage is the latest in a series of developments that have transformed the Gateshead and Newcastle quaysides.
The Sage is the new home of the Northern Sinfonia.
Gateshead Council recognised the potential to transform the Gateshead Quays area in the 1990s.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/in_pictures/4098769.stm   (139 words)

  
 Gateshead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gateshead (locally known as "Gatesheed", or "The Heed") is a town in Tyne and Wear in north-east England on the south side of the River Tyne opposite Newcastle upon Tyne which covers the North Bank.
In the same year was the Great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead, which destroyed a great deal of riverside property and killed more than 50 people.
Writer Daniel Defoe and footballer Paul Gascoigne are two of Gateshead's most famous former residents.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gateshead   (1302 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead, UK | Mott MacDonald
Achieving the requirements of Gateshead Council and architect Sir Norman Foster was the biggest driver for innovation when designing and installing the building services at The Sage.
The Sage Gateshead’s sustainable design features have contributed to an estimated annual operating energy consumption 40% lower than current best practice.
Among the energy reducing features of the Sage Gateshead are minimal comfort cooling and environmental conditioning by use of thermal mass, natural ventilation and solar shading.
www.mottmac.com /projects/?id=5581   (536 words)

  
 Official Ticketmaster site. The Sage Gateshead Gateshead, UK tickets . Directions, seating chart, events.
The venue is located on Gateshead Quays between the Tyne and Gateshead Millennium Bridges.
There are a number of priority spaces for blue badge holders near the entrances to The Sage Gateshead and by the lifts in the car park.
Coach parking is available at The Sage Gateshead’s coach park, into which there is level access from the road for coaches and from which there is level access to the building for passengers.
www.ticketmaster.co.uk /venue/279211   (708 words)

  
 Back-row blogger on ... Sage Gateshead | | Guardian Unlimited Arts
Photo: Owen Humphreys/PA I've just been to Sage Gateshead, the Foster-designed music centre on the south bank of the Tyne.
Violinist Peter Cropper, late of the Lindsay String Quartet, was playing in a newly formed piano trio in the smaller auditorium - an intimate, beautiful space that can be reconfigured so the performers are in the centre or at the side.
Sage is gorgeous and palatial, with stunning vistas over the Tyne.
arts.guardian.co.uk /backrowblogger/story/0,,1601501,00.html   (395 words)

  
 RIBA: The Sage Gateshead wins The RIBA Inclusive Design Award   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Sage Gatehead, designed by Foster and Partners and commissioned by Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council, has won this year’s RIBA Inclusive Design Award in association with the Centre for Accessible Environments and Allgood.
In this instance, dialogue with users through The Sage Gateshead Access Panel was established at the outset and the access consultant worked on the project from inception to completion.
The Sage Gateshead beat off stiff competition from three other projects: Classroom of the Future, Mossbrook School, Sheffield by Sarah Wigglesworth Architects, Peter Jones, London, by John McAslan + Partners and Weston Adventure Playground by Finch Macintosh Architects.
www.riba.org /go/RIBA/News/Press_5010.html   (573 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead :: What's On : Introduction
The Sage Gateshead music programme is all-inclusive, offering a high quality local and international programme of live music across a kaleidoscope of genres.
The Sage Gateshead reserves the right to make adjustments and alter programmes, special offers and incentive rates at any time.
Only holders of tickets purchased from The Sage Gateshead's Ticket Office, or our official ticket agencies, will be admitted.
www.thesagegateshead.org /whats_on/index.aspx   (244 words)

  
 Venue - 2006 UK National Smoking Cessation Conference
We are located on Gateshead Quays between the Tyne and Gateshead Millennium Bridges.
Take the Metro one stop to Gateshead (a couple of minutes journey time then either a ten minute walk to The Sage Gateshead or catch the No.60 bus).
The Newcastle Gateshead visitor centre has arranged deals with some local hotels, although please note that the Swallow Hotel, which is top of their list, is some distance from the venue.
www.uknscc.org /2006_UKNSCC/venue.html   (755 words)

  
 NewcastleGateshead - City Guide - The Sage Gateshead
The Sage Gateshead is a pioneering international centre for musical discovery.
Rising on the south bank of the Tyne, The Sage Gateshead has world-class acoustics and encompass music performance and participation, entertainment and education.
From the A1(M) take the A184 to Gateshead and follow the signs for The Sage Gateshead.
www.visitnewcastlegateshead.com /attractionDetails.php?e=76   (109 words)

  
 The Sage, Gateshead. - Canon Digital Photography Forums
These shots were taken on a recent 'photography marathon', which was organised by the university photography society.
We got 12 categories under which we had to take pictures for and one of them was 'The Sage'.
Sage, its a spice I never use but the flowers are interesting
photography-on-the.net /forum/showthread.php?t=165758   (466 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead by Foster and Partners
The Sage Gateshead is a dramatic application of Foster's innovation with irregular glass domes, this one forming a very large and friendly caterpillar along the Gateshead side of the River Tyne, opposite the center of Newcastle.
The Sage is part of the Gateshead Quays development, on Gateshead's South Shore Road.
It can easily be reached from the center of Newcastle via the (pedestrian) Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
www.galinsky.com /buildings/sage   (173 words)

  
 Culture and Creativity Gateshead
Gateshead has been a place of innovation in community development and urban regeneration for over a decade and has supported arts and culture well into the last century.
The building has had a wide variety of uses since the new Civic Centre opened in 1987 but was recently reoccupied by Gateshead Council’s Cultural Services as part of a £1.2m plan to create a ‘cultural hub’ for arts and other cultural projects in Gateshead.
Councillor Mick Henry, Leader of Gateshead Council, says: “We are delighted to welcome the Tyneside Cinema to Gateshead’s Old Town Hall – it’s exciting to have a cinema in the town centre once more, and especially one with such a fantastic reputation.
www.cultureandcreativitygateshead.org   (10060 words)

  
 Brockhouse Modernfold - The Sage, Gateshead - AIS 2005 Gold Award Winner
Brockhouse Modernfold Ltd., the longest established supplier of movable acoustic walls in the UK, are pleased to announce the completion of the movable wall installation at The Sage in Gateshead.
Acclaimed in the media as ‘an auditoria of acoustic excellence’, The Sage has taken ten years of detailed planning and has been designed after extensive consultation with musicians, music presenters and promoters.
Brockhouse were excited to rise to the challenge of designing, manufacturing and installing what Arup stated as ‘one of the most advanced movable walls ever to be installed in the UK’.
www.movableacousticwalls.co.uk /casestudies/sagegateshead.php   (475 words)

  
 Gateshead Crossroads Caring for Carers
We are pleased to announce that we will be holding a Carers Conference/Annual General Meeting this year on 30th November 2006 at The Sage in Gateshead, thanks to funding from Awards for All.
Gateshead Crossroads Caring for Carers were inspected by the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) in November 2005.
The inspection report is now available to download, along with the previous report from February 2005.
www.gatesheadcrossroads.org.uk   (585 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead, events highlights – November 2005 to January 2006
The current cohort of young performers are already gaining a national and, indeed, international reputation for sparkling musicianship and exciting performances and this concert will be both a snapshot of their current musical development and a glimpse at the future stars of the folk world.
The BBC Big Band returns to The Sage Gateshead for a festive offering of jazz and big band music to be recorded for BBC Radio 3's Jazz Line Up.
Following her appearance at the 2005 Gateshead International Jazz Festival, Claire Martin will join the festivities along with International saxophonist and composer Tim Garland (Composer-In-Residence at Newcastle University) to inject the jazz element into the proceedings.
www.sunderland.ac.uk /caffairs/sage.htm   (3088 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead | Arup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
With a global portfolio of performing arts venues, Arup was chosen to help realise this vision for The Sage Gateshead, contributing acoustics, communications and fire engineering design services.
Variable acoustics are integral to the design of the centre, enabling it to accommodate a broad spectrum of events including jazz, world music, spoken word and amplified music.
Arup Acoustics worked in close partnership with Gateshead Metropolitan Council and architect Foster and Partners to determine the acoustical requirements for the venue and then translate these into outline designs.
www.arup.com /europe/feature.cfm?pageid=5637   (495 words)

  
 The Sage Gateshead
The $122 million Sage Gateshead was conceived in 1997 after the Gateshead Council, the city’s governing body, held a competition for the concert hall complex.
From the start, the Gateshead Council and North Music Trust—which was in charge of the musical organizations coming into the hall—teamed up Foster and Partners, headed by partner Spencer de Grey, with Arup Acoustics, led by Raj Patel and Bob Essert.
After consulting the Northern Sinfonia, the chamber orchestra that would have its home at Sage Gateshead, Patel and de Grey elected to model the shape of the largest space, a 1,700-seat hall, on the acoustically acclaimed classic shoe box of Vienna’s Musikvereinsaal, built in 1870.
www.businessweek.com /innovate/content/jul2005/di20050721_035797.htm   (502 words)

  
 The Sage, Gateshead - Northumbria - UK Attraction
The Sage Gateshead is a stunning centre, designed by Lord Norman Foster, for live music.
It consists of two performance spaces of acoustic excellence, the Northern Rock Foundation Hall for rehearsal performance, a 25 room Music Education Centre, ExploreMusic, which is a music information resource centre, and The Barbour Room, which is used for entertainment.
Bed & Breakfast accommodation near to The Sage
www.ukattraction.com /northumbria/the-sage.htm   (167 words)

  
 The Sage, Gateshead | Communications | Arup   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Arup Communications designed the communications and multi-media systems in The Sage Gateshead, a music and multimedia centre by architect Norman Foster and one of the flagship buildings in the riverside arts complex.
The Sage Gateshead was opened to the public in December 2004.
The Sage Gateshead - Europe and the Middle East
www.arup.com /communications/project.cfm?pageid=6884   (283 words)

  
 RA: Resident Advisor - The Sage Gateshead - North Nightclub   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Sage Gateshead is a stunning £70 million home for live music.
With cutting edge digital sound and visuals The Sage Gateshead is a venue like no other.
Habit at The Sage Gateshead with Desyn Masiello
www.residentadvisor.net /club_view.asp?ID=2248   (151 words)

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