MEA House, off Ellison Place, NE1

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The photograph on this page of MEA House, off Ellison Place, NE1 by Mike Quinn as part of the Geograph project.

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MEA House, off Ellison Place, NE1

Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 26 May 2015

MEA House is owned by The MEA Trust, a registered charity; it is a five storey city centre office block which provides modern office accommodation to registered charities at rents below market rate http://www.meahouse.org.uk/about-us/ . The building was officially opened by HM Queen Elizabeth II in 1974; it underwent a £4m refurbishment in 2000 and was re-opened in 2001 by HRH Princess Royal. Somewhat unbelievably, the building received a commendation from the RIBA in their national competition in 1976. Me, I think that it's pig-ugly and totally out of sympathy with the adjacent Image and the brick buildings of Northumbria University to the east. I'm sorry that the photo doesn't do full justice to the purple brick pill-box affair sticking out incongruously on the west (left) side of the building. Fully deserves inclusion with the other Masterpieces of Modern Architecture in Newcastle https://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=109769006 .

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Image Location

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Latitude
54.97592
Longitude
-1.608147