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Workplace opened in 34 Ellison Street, Gateshead in 2005, the building was demolished in 2009
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34 Ellison Street was part of Trinity Court Gateshead, designed by Rodney Gordon for Owen Luder Partnerships.
It was recognised as one of the finest examples of British Brutalism, and known locally as the Get Carter Car Park after its central appearance in the film Get Carter starring Micheal Caine
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“Gordon's imagination was indeed fecund, rich, untrammelled. It was haunted by Russian constructivism, crusader castles, Levantine skylines. But the paramount desire was to make an architecture that had not previously existed. There are as many ideas in a single Gordon building as there are in the entire careers of most architects. The seldom-photographed street level stuff at the Trinity left the observer with the sensation of being in the presence of genius.“
Jonathan Meades
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TRANSMISSION
Workplace is pleased to present Transmission, a group exhibition of new and recent work by gallery artists Simeon Barclay, Marcus Coates, Jennifer Douglas, Louise Giovanelli and Laura Lancaster. This exhibition is presented online inside a detailed virtual rendering of our first gallery space: Workplace, 34 Ellison Street, Gateshead, which opened in 2005 within the British Brutalist masterpiece Trinity Court designed by Rodney Gordon for Owen Luder Partnerships, and which was demolished in 2009. For this exhibition we have relocated the gallery to the coast - in both a nod to the sublime (an echo of Gordon’s vast, elemental architecture) and because the original street outside the gallery was destroyed.