Adaptive Reuse – Heather Shimmin Photography

FORGOTTEN SPACES EXHIBIT, SOMMERSET HOUSE, THE STRAND, LONDON

Forgotten Spaces Exhibit, Sommerset House, The Strand, London Photo: Yin&Yan Forgotten Spaces is a shortlist of the Call for Entries for architects, students, designers, and other creatives to submit their design solutions for neglected, redundant, and overall forgotten spaces in and about Greater London. The project aims to get people thinking about urban design and city planning in new ways, of examining the potential for the overlooked nooks and crannies

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2011: SIR JOHN SOANE MUSEUM

Sir John Soane Museum & House 12-14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields The Soane Museum is a set of three houses, Numbers 12, 13, and 14, on the north side of Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London. Soane designed the house as both a home to live in and as a space to display his vast collection of plaster casts, statues, artifacts, drawings, paintings, and much more. Not all of the spaces are open

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2011: SWISS CHURCH, LONDON

Swiss Church London, 79 Endell Street. Photo © 2011 Heather Shimmin DESCRIPTION The Swiss Church London was built on Endell Street in the 1850s (the original church was built on Moor Street, Soho in 1775) and was listed Grade II by English Heritage in 1973. The Swiss Church has just recently completed a major multi-million pound makeover. The redesign was done by Swiss Architects Christ & Gantenbein and was completed right before Open House London. The aim

MATHEW STREET LIVERPOOL

The Rejuvenation of a City Mathew Street is to Beatle fans what the Via Dolorosa is to Christians: walking down it is life changing and at the heart of the experience in the Holy Land. Hundreds of thousands of people walk down Mathew Street every year. Most are tourists, but in the evening, Mathew Street draws hundreds of locals seeking a pint (or five) and some good music. The successful regeneration of Liverpool as

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE RECONSTRUCTION, LONDON

The sun setting on the reconstructed Globe Theatre in Southbank, London, England Photo ©Heather Shimmin Is there validity in reconstruction, in creating a facsimile, a copy, a replica? Can a reproduction be just as valuable as the original? The answer is yes and the evidence is Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre. A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE GLOBE THEATRE Wenceslaus Hollar’s “The Long View of London from Bankside,” 1647 (detail) There have been three

TOWN HALL HOTEL, LONDON

Emerging from the Bethnal Green tube stop, one might feel as if they had got off in Harlem instead of London. Sad, 1960s buildings line the street, with even sadder storefronts: quality car store, low-price tyres, off license city supermarket, City Chic. It in the middle of this neglected street is Bethnal Green’s old Town Hall, unassuming, yet stately. This 1910 Edwardian structure was built at the height of British

ADAPTIVE REUSE: TRAIN CARRIAGES

adaptive reuse case study THE DEPTFORD PROJECT location: Deptford, London former function: Jubilee Line commuter train carriage built: 1960s previous architect: unknown new function: café and bistro remodeled: 2008 architects: Studio Myerscough The Deptford Project, a delightful coffee shop in a redundant London Underground carriage. Photo ©Heather Shimmin On 14 February 2008, after a very slow journey from Essex, a 35 tonne, 57 passenger, decommissioned 1960s commuter train carriage

MA THESIS IN HISTORICAL AND SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

I’ve just finished my MA program at New York University in Historical and Sustainable Architecture. The focus of the program is Adaptive Reuse, urban regeneration, and sustainability. I was fortunate enough to be able to study in London. My time there was all too brief but it has opened my eyes to the possibilities of adaptive reuse and just how far behind America is in such matters (among others, but

HAMPSON COURT PALACE GARDENS

Hampton Court History in Brief Hampton Court Palace sits on the banks of the Thames in Surrey. Cardinal Woolsey transformed Hampton Court, a grand house when he acquired it, into a sprawling palace in the mid- 16th century. So impressed was Henry VIII with the Cardinal’s palace that Woolsey “gifted” it to the King (he really did not have a choice in the matter). Of all of his palaces, Hampton

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SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, ORANIENBURG, GERMANY

Entrance to Sachenhausen Concentration Camp. Photo ©Heather Shimmin About 40 km north of Berlin, in the small town of Oranienburg, is Sachsenhausen, the first Nazi Concentration Camp. Sachsenhausen’s design was the model on which all other Concentration Camps were based. Its triangular shape was so that a single, mounted machine gun in the watch tower (in the centre of the triangle’s base) could reach the entire camp. The

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FORGOTTEN SPACES EXHIBIT, SOMMERSET HOUSE, THE STRAND, LONDON

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2011: SIR JOHN SOANE MUSEUM

OPEN HOUSE LONDON 2011: SWISS CHURCH, LONDON

MATHEW STREET LIVERPOOL

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE THEATRE RECONSTRUCTION, LONDON

TOWN HALL HOTEL, LONDON

ADAPTIVE REUSE: TRAIN CARRIAGES

MA THESIS IN HISTORICAL AND SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE FROM NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

HAMPSON COURT PALACE GARDENS

SACHSENHAUSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, ORANIENBURG, GERMANY

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