The Sage, Gateshead

The Sage, Gateshead will be a landmark on Tyneside, forming the heart of an exciting project to redevelop the area's river frontage. The site is adjacent to the Sterling Prize Award Winning Gateshead Millennium Bridge and the Tyne Bridge.

This eye-catching waterfront building is a stunning £70 million home for live music and is made up of two concert halls; The Northern Rock Foundation Hall for rehearsal and community performance and The Barbour Room - a sunny entertainment room, plus studios, bars, a cafe and a brasserie. It's free to visit Sage and it's open all year round, so definitely worth a visit! The spectacular concourse of the building has river views of the Tyne and is a great viewpoint for Millennium Bridge, the Baltic Centre for Contempory Art and the Newcastle/Gateshead Quays. 
    
The building has taken ten years of detailed planning and has been designed after extensive consultation with musicians and music presenters and promoters.

Fast Facts

• Most of the 3,858 tonnes of steel is hidden from view in the foundations and reinforcing in the walls and floors.
  
• More than 1,100 concrete and steel piles have been drilled into the ground to support the massive structure.
  
• There's enough steel in The Sage to build a warship! You could make a destroyer like HMS
• Newcastle and still have enough steel left over to build six Cheiftan tanks.
  
• More than 18,000 cubic metres of concrete has been poured into the foundations and the building.
• That concrete could fill 23 competition size swimming pools, make almost 5 million foot-square paving slabs - which could build around 10,000 average garden patios. For football fans, that's enough concrete flags to build a path 800 miles long from St James' Park, Newcastle to the San Siro Stadium in Milan - and still have enough left to pave over the pitch 6 times!

For more information, check out http://www.thesagegateshead.com/