Venue - Gateshead
 
The NewcastleGateshead Art Fair has secured a long-term deal with the Sage Gateshead that continues to build on a strong working relationship. This internationally known venue creates an iconic setting. The venue sits alongside the Gateshead Millennium Bridge, with its famous 'Blinking Eye', a first in engineering and design; and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

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The Sage Gateshead

The Sage Gateshead provides world-class facilities on a prime riverside location overlooking the famous Tyne Bridge. The £70 million project has been designed by internationally renowned architects Foster and Partners and is their first concert hall. It is seven buildings in one, designed from the inside out and then clothed by a spectacular curved roof. A glass fronted public concourse and foyer links all the areas - offering spectacular views across the River Tyne. Architectural glass artist Kate Maestri has designed a striking glass ballustrade running along the concourse of the building. Read more.

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Gateshead Millennium Bridge

Designed by Wilkinson Eyre Architects / Gifford & Partners and built by Gateshead-based construction company - Harbour & General, the bridge was opened on Monday 20th November 2000. It is still the world's first and only tilting bridge! The unique design is based on the simple idea of a pair of steel arches - one is the deck, the other supports the deck. The whole bridge tilts, undergoing a metamorphous into a grand arch, in an operation that evokes the slow opening of a huge eye. Read more.

Some facts about the Gateshead Millennium Bridge:

• Each tilt takes four minutes.
• Powered by eight electric motors, equivalent to 589 horse power - more than a Ferrari F50 or eight Ford Focus cars.
• Weighs more than 850 tonnes - enough steel to make 64 double decker buses or 16 Chieftain tanks.
• So energy efficient it costs just £3.60 each time it opens

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BALTIC

BALTIC the Centre for Contemporary Art is a major centre for international contemporary art. BALTIC has a premier site on the south bank of the River Tyne and lies at the heart of the Gateshead Quays regeneration area. This £46m project has transformed the former Baltic Flour Mills, a disused 1950's grain warehouse, into one of the biggest and best contemporary art spaces in Europe.

BALTIC has no permanent collection, providing instead an ever-changing calendar of exhibitions and activities that give a unique and compelling insight into contemporary artistic practice. The BALTIC programme ranges from blockbuster exhibitions to innovative new work and projects created by artists working within the local community.

BALTIC is a place where visitors can experience innovative and provocative new art, relax, have fun, learn and discover fresh ideas. Read More.

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