UK - London - Coal Drops Yard 01_DSC5493
When I was in London back in March I took a bit of a detour to see the recently opened Heatherwick Studios 'Coal Drops Yard' retail development. Unfortunately the upper floor, seen here, isn't open to the public (yet?) and it proved difficult to photograph thanks to the ongoing development that surrounds it.
Even for this tightly cropped shot I've removed a couple of cranes in Photoshop........
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From Wikipedia : "The £100m project called for the listed Victorian sheds to be converted into a new high-end, 9,290 sq metre, shopping complex and privately owned public space. Thomas Heatherwick took the two converging arcaded sheds and connected them with the 'kissing roof. The two brick and wrought iron coal drops were designed at different times so were structurally different, but shared a common roof line. Heatherwick's scheme takes the analogy of how a strip of paper can be twisted, and does the same to the slate roof finish. He uses the brick sheds as a base, and constructs the plastic form of the roof from steel tubing. The result is an additional glazed space, in the roof, two storeys high that adds 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of space. The 35m wide roof adds no extra weight to the wall structures; it is supported on a 54 steel columns that are embedded within the building. The slate used in the roof comes from the same seam in the same Welsh slate quarry as was used in the original roof.
There are 9290 square metres of shopping space, in units ranging from 15 to 1,800 square metres."
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UK - London - Coal Drops Yard 01_DSC5493
When I was in London back in March I took a bit of a detour to see the recently opened Heatherwick Studios 'Coal Drops Yard' retail development. Unfortunately the upper floor, seen here, isn't open to the public (yet?) and it proved difficult to photograph thanks to the ongoing development that surrounds it.
Even for this tightly cropped shot I've removed a couple of cranes in Photoshop........
Click here for more shots of London architecture : www.flickr.com/photos/darrellg/albums/72157635041185106
From Wikipedia : "The £100m project called for the listed Victorian sheds to be converted into a new high-end, 9,290 sq metre, shopping complex and privately owned public space. Thomas Heatherwick took the two converging arcaded sheds and connected them with the 'kissing roof. The two brick and wrought iron coal drops were designed at different times so were structurally different, but shared a common roof line. Heatherwick's scheme takes the analogy of how a strip of paper can be twisted, and does the same to the slate roof finish. He uses the brick sheds as a base, and constructs the plastic form of the roof from steel tubing. The result is an additional glazed space, in the roof, two storeys high that adds 20,000 square feet (1,900 m2) of space. The 35m wide roof adds no extra weight to the wall structures; it is supported on a 54 steel columns that are embedded within the building. The slate used in the roof comes from the same seam in the same Welsh slate quarry as was used in the original roof.
There are 9290 square metres of shopping space, in units ranging from 15 to 1,800 square metres."
My Website : Twitter : Facebook : Instagram : Photocrowd
© D.Godliman