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Paul Dunn on the city of Sunderland after moving away and returning after 20 years.

#Paul Dunn #Film House Project #Sunderland #Architecture

#sunderland #Wearside #Olympics #Torch #Wearchitecture #Architecture #Chris Mullin

An interesting article (and great comments) on Ashburn House, in Backhouse Park.

http://www.sunderlandecho.com/community/historic-building-closes-as-owners-consider-future-1-4494346

#sunderland #sunderland university #Architecture #art #backhouse park #ashburn house

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Sunderland V Aston Villa, Thomas M. Hemy.

This painting was commissioned in 1895 by Sunderland AFC and now resides in the Stadium of Light.

#sunderland #football #stadium of light #art #painting

Pictures of my Sunderland artwork for sale - A2 unframed for £25 or framed for £45 (including delivery)

#Sunderland #Art #Poster #Penshaw #Roker #Pier #david lee hood #Architecture #painting #lighthouse #artwork #pictures

OH NO.....

....but at least its not on the Vaux site

#sunderland #wearchitecture #david lee hood #tesco #roker

My new logo

#Sunderland #architecture #design #graphic #logo #wearchitecture #david lee hood

Preistman building revamp.

After Sunderland university have produced some of the cities most interesting and exciting buildings this is a complete disaster. I am so disappointed with this, I can't believe how boring and stale it is. Its surprising the University have released this flythrough as it lacks any kind of ambition or creativity. I cant imagine it will inspire any of the artists who study here.

The original building was financed by John Priestman in 1939, he did so much for the cities architecture and built environment. I'm sure he would be as disappointed as me to see what they are doing with his building if he was still alive. Having studied at the Glasgow school of art, seeing how Charles Rennie Mackintosh dealt with those art spaces, this is what this type of revamp should aspire to get close to.

The proposed work is costing the university a whopping £6.5 million. I would suggest they make some huge changes if they want to get something worth while.

Come on Sunderland University sort it out, you can do much better than this.

#Sunderland #architecture #priestman building #sunderland university #wearchitecture #david lee hood

My latest painting. Will be available to buy at Serendipity Tea and Trinkets in Sunderland soon.

#art #artwork #david lee hood #painting #penshaw #penshaw monument #serendipity tea and trinkets #sunderland #wearchitecture

Roker Pier painted by me

will be on www.artgallery.co.uk/artist/david_hood soon

#architecture #art #david #hood #lighthouse #painting #pier #roker #sunderland #wearchitecture #david lee hood

I found this site through Twitter. A very beautiful and eye opening website totally dedicated to Sunderland. Im so happy to see this kind of thing happening and available. Sunderland has a lot to show off, even though sometimes it takes a very creative person to bring it out. Excellent work!

Follow the site on twitter @thisissunlun

and follow me @wearchitecture

#architecture #photography #sunderland #this is sunderland #wearchitecture #david lee hood

I got this book for my birthday. Haven't read it all yet but it seems really interesting. Lots of Sunderland facts in a non-boring format! buy it - it raises money for SAFC foundation, SAFC's charity.

#book #history #niall quinn #sunderland

Echo 24 building.

Designed by Mario Minchella Architects, Echo 24 is a landmark 13-storey scheme at the edge of the city centre, which occupies the narrow island site of the former Sunderland Echo printworks overlooking the River Wear. The £38m building has won the Building Control Quality Award for Best Regeneration Project.

I didn't like this building when it was first finished but I must admit it has grown on me. I just think it needs more around it. The river could be developed as a business area of the city and drive the local economy. As I have blogged about before (paul Swinney's report) Sunderland city centre is not a place in demand at all by local businesses for a variety of reasons. If developed in the correct way these unused, underdeveloped sites (including Vaux and Farringdon Row) could make a big changes in the city centre.

#Architecture #Mario Minchella #Sunderland #echo 24 #wearchitecture #david lee hood

I went for a walk along Roker Pier over the Christmas period and took these photographs. It was a nice bight day but the wind was gale force and walking along the pier didnt feel too safe. There was however a good few fishermen braving the wind, trying to catch some dinner!

Roker Pier took 22 years to build and construction started in the 1880s. At the time the construction techniques were at the forefront of technology and engineering. On the pier you can see a couple of remaining tracks, these were part of this major construction process. During the build tracks ran a crane (named Goliath) up and down carrying the foundation blocks and other materials from land to the extent of the pier. A Subway was also created along the length of the whole pier for maintenance in bad weather conditions. See the amazing model, made by Fred Gooch in 2010.

The pier is 877 meters long and opened in 1903, it cost £290 000 which is around £30 million in todays money.

#Architecture #Roker #Roker Lighthouse #Roker pier #Seafront #Sunderland #engineering #wearchitecture #david lee hood

River Wear

#Architecture #River Wear #Sunderland #Wear #Wearmouth Bridge #wearchitecture #david lee hood

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