From 1791 a workhouse could be found on the site of Tanner Street Park in Bermondsey. Its strong and functional form has been the point of departure for my proposal – the functional ‘box’ of the Workhouse is distorted to accommodate its new use as a Sports Facility: • The perimeter is shifted to complement the topography of the site. • A central space is enclosed
Ship breaking chamber. Since the closure of the Royal Docks, Silvertown in East London went from being part of the largest dock in the world to a ghost town, a place of memory. Silvertown ship breaking yard will not only provide the local community with highly skilled jobs but through the creative process of playing, testing, experimenting and reconstructing
The main entrance and reception areas are made up of 23 10-12m by 5m steel/kauri canopies. The cantilevered lower west canopy is made rigid by being pinned back to Macalloy bars, making the main canopy rigid Auckland art gallery (Toi o Tamaki) Hundreds of strips of local kauri timber make up the roof canopy and columns at the Auckland Art Gallery, but despite
Ever since oil services Sir Ian Wood tycoon put his hat in the ring with £50M of his fortune to redesign the city centre’s 1879 Union Terrace Gardens, as long as Aberdeen City Council came up with match funding, the site has been a battlefield for those who wish to see the city centre reinvented and those who like it very much as it is, thank you. Lest we forget, in 2009
Photographic simulations are an excellent tool to show what a design could look and feel like. These impressions by Miller Hare show the Dixon Jones scheme for Exhibition Road, a project designed to improve access for all to this incredibly important and busy central London street. Architect’s impression of the Dixon Jones pedestrianisation scheme for Exhibition
