tony mcateer
City+ (Series)
DESCRIPTION
Massive growth of cities is one of the global features of our time.
Looking at scale, bulk and distance in urbanization, City+ captures how different regional responses reflect history and culture:
In Qatar & UAE new skylines have shot up in the last few decades. Epic planning has produced Doha and Dubai as readymade arenas for global finance and cultural showcasing. Streamlined urbanisation to immediately put themselves on the map.
Chinese cities are being reconfigured for consumerism, corporate culture and mass migration. New commercial and residential blocks, tower over the communist era low-rises in Chengdu. In Shanghai the traditional pagoda design is transformed into a corporate skyscraper, the Jin Mao Tower, in an already huge city pushing higher.
New York always a leading global city, a patchwork of historical urban styles, innovations and solutions. The new Frank Gehry building in the foreground, formally echoing this collaged, inventive history.
AUTHOR
Both thrilling and frightening, massive growth of cities is one of the global features of our time. Working as an architectural photographer since 2000 I’ve been lucky to have travelled extensively abroad and within the UK. In this time have seen the development of many cities and have become engrossed by urbanism - its structures, narratives and transformations.
1 World Trade Centre, NY / The National Museum of Qatar, Doha / BBC Broadcasting House, London / BBC Media City, Manchester / Hoglands, Grade 1 listed restoration of Henry Moores former home & etching studio / Tate St. Ives
Awards:
Fine Art Photo Awards 2017, 3rd Place, Architecture
Life Framer Series Award 2017, Finalist
Life Framer Urban Life Photography Award 2017, Shortlisted
Chromatic Awards 2017, Honorable Mention, Cityscapes & Abstract
ND Awards 2016, Architectural Photographer of the Year
ND Awards 2016, Honorable Mention, Cityscapes
IPA (Int'nl photo awards) 2016, Honorable Mention, Architecture
IPA 2016, Honorable Mention, Fine Art
Moscow International Fotography Awards 2016, Finalist, Architecture Category
Moscow International Fotography Awards 2016, Finalist, Abstract Category
London Photography Festival 2016, Finalist, Abstract Photography Award
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