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 |
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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.
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