Tag: adaptive reuse

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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