Reg.Nr. GB/202/81

Wapping Sports Centre, London

This development has brought to life the old curved workshops and provided an amenity building of distinction. New-build continued the yellow stock and engineering brickwork of the existing workshops. The internal spaces are particularly well considered with excellent ...
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Project details

Title:Wapping Sports Centre, London
Entr. year: 1981
Result:Diploma
Country: United Kingdom
Town: London
Category type: architectural heritage
Building type/ Project type: industrial heritage
Former use:Chain repair workshop
Actual use:Not specified - At time of submission the building was in use as a sports hall
Built: 19th century
Architect / Proj.leader: Shepheard, Epstein & Hunter, Architects (London - GB)
The Jury's citation: "For the excellent conversion of a disused workshop and the addition of a new hall to provide facilities for athletics"
GPS:51°30'15.2"N 0°3'41.1"W

Description:
This development has brought to life the old curved workshops and provided an amenity building of distinction. New-build continued the yellow stock and engineering brickwork of the existing workshops. The internal spaces are particularly well considered with excellent daylighting. The old cast-iron columns retrieved from nearby dock vaults were re-used to support the external covered way between new sports hall and curved activities hall.