tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90657433272925171502024-03-05T16:05:02.820-08:00Panorama High Street 2012The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-65537918817333181342013-01-22T04:42:00.000-08:002013-01-22T04:42:17.653-08:00The Panorama Live!We are currently testing the Panorama - you can view it here: <a href="http://panoramaeast.org.uk/">www.panoramaeast.org.uk/</a><br />
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If you have any comments or information you would like to add to the Panorama, please do send us an email and let us know!The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-77403864212738920802012-07-27T04:03:00.001-07:002012-07-27T04:03:22.261-07:00The research process<div class="" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-1228691695864904482012-06-11T07:44:00.004-07:002012-06-11T07:45:42.239-07:00Scenes from Whitechapel<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Judit Ferencz, one of the volunteers researching the histories and stories of High Street 2012, chose to record some of the scenes that she witnessed whilst she explored Whitechapel High Street. Below are some of her beautiful illustrations, which record her experiences of visiting the Whitechapel area.</span><br />
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<br /></div>The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-13390770894847516492012-05-30T02:23:00.001-07:002012-05-30T02:23:41.881-07:00Our Whitechapel Market Stall in pictures<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;">To add your experience of High Street 2012 to our collection, take a photo of your favourite building along the high street and send it to <a href="mailto:projects@buildingexploratory.org.uk">projects@buildingexploratory.org.uk</a>, or send in a sentence about what you think about High Street 2012 to the same address. You can also visit us our next Whitechapel Market Stall on 23<sup>rd</sup> June, which will be outside the Idea Store, Whitechapel from 10am-4pm.</span></div>
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<br />The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-35553292515133720772012-05-18T07:08:00.001-07:002012-05-18T07:08:22.021-07:00VISIT OUR WHITECHAPEL MARKET STALL!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20px;"><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 20px;">Panorama High Street 2012: Whitechapel Market Stall</b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px;">Saturday 26th May 2012<br style="line-height: 19px;" />10:00-16:00</span></b><span style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 19px;"><br style="line-height: 19px;" />The Building Exploratory is hosting a market stall at the Idea Store Whitechapel to celebrate the architectural heritage of this historic high street. Our team of experts will be on hand to talk to you about its buildings and introduce you to our vote for the peoples’ favourite building.<br style="line-height: 19px;" /> <br style="line-height: 19px;" />Come and take part in activities that will inspire you to look more closely at the 600 buildings and their architectural features.<br style="line-height: 19px;" /> <br style="line-height: 19px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;">Take photographs</b> of building details using your mobile phone for our project gallery.<br style="line-height: 19px;" /> <br style="line-height: 19px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;">Guided tours</b> exploring the high street’s buildings and public spaces, take place at 12 noon and 2pm, beginning at the market stall.<br style="line-height: 19px;" /> <br style="line-height: 19px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;">Vote </b>for your favourite building from our 16 “People’s Favourites”.<br style="line-height: 19px;" /> <br style="line-height: 19px;" />The event is part of the Building Exploratory’s Panorama High Street 2012 initiative, an ambitious project creating a photographic panorama of the high street and documenting the six-kilometre route from Aldgate to the Olympic Park. We hope to meet local residents, shoppers and visitors to the high street and listen to their opinions and experiences of this remarkable London thoroughfare.<br style="line-height: 19px;" /><b style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 19px;"><br style="line-height: 19px;" />Join us at the market stall, at the Idea Store Whitechapel on 26 May, and again on 23 June, between 10am and 4pm.</b><i style="font-style: italic; line-height: 19px;"><br style="line-height: 19px;" />Idea Store Whitechapel<br style="line-height: 19px;" />321 Whitechapel Road<br style="line-height: 19px;" />London E1 1BU</i></span></span><br />
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Panorama High Street 2012 volunteers have spent the last two months undertaking
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">My section of the High Street 2012
survey focuses on a row of listed early Victorian Terraces on the last stretch
of Mile End Road and the beginning of Bow Road. While the buildings themselves
are wonderful they aren’t especially architecturally unique and on the whole
have mainly been used as homes for nearing their 200 years of existence. This
presented a challenge. As opposed to someone who was tasked with researching a
cinema or a hospital, these houses at first look (give or take a uPVC window
here and a concreted front garden there) are pretty much as they were built.<br />
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</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.5pt;">With this in mind I settled into
Tower Hamlets Archives. With 80 years worth of Post Office Directories at my
disposal I was sure I could come up with some interesting histories of these
terraces. The Directories (or Kelly’s Directories, the name under which they
were published) are a fascinating series of volumes dating back to the early
1800s which among other things attempt to list every inhabitant or workplace at
every address in London. <o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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fascinating picture in micro-detail about who lived and worked in this part of
London throughout the building’s history. What I was able to learn from
following the directories through the years was that the houses were initially
occupied by private residents. While a few were used as schools or nurseries
(easy to run out of a home environment) it wasn’t until later that other
cottage industries started to set up in these buildings. Tailors and related
crafts people were probably the most predominantly found inhabitants of the
buildings between 415 Mile End Road and 23 Bow Road. However there were also
several occupants from the medical professions, with 1 Bow Road in particular
being a home to physicians for well over 100 years. This could have something
to do with the nearby presence of St. Clements Hospital, but is also a comment
on the relatively well off nature of inhabitants of these terraces whilst the
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It is also interesting to see that most of the names of inhabitants throughout
the 1800s seem to be of English descent but in the first half of the 20th
century a number of other ethnicities seem to crop up, especially those of
Eastern European descent. This helps to paint an interesting picture of the
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One architectural wonder is the Humanities Building designed by Wilkinson Eyre.
These architects teamed up with artist, Jacqueline Poncelet, to produce a blue,
book motif decorated facade. This book-themed pattern acts as a symbol for the
collecting, sharing and increase of knowledge. And the Humanities department
remembers the important matter of sustainability by incorporating ground source
heat pumps into their design in order to create renewable energy. <br /></i>
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But by far the most beautiful piece of architecture at Queen Mary’s is the
Octagon Library, part of the main Queens Building, a magnificent Victorian
three-tiered hall with an elegant, cross-vaulted ceiling. Its eight walls are
furnished with Neo-Grecian iron galleries. Gleaming, golden busts of literature’s
finest writers peer down from their columns from Chaucer, to Shakespeare, to
Byron. From the very beginning women held key positions at the library which
was rather unexpected in the Victorian era, such women were Constance Black and
Minnie James. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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There are so many interesting features of Queen Mary University and I am
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<!--EndFragment-->The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-64400215131167955842012-03-16T08:28:00.002-07:002012-03-19T05:39:13.307-07:00More discoveries by the project volunteers<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i> 'When I first visited Whitechapel High Street and discovered Black Lion House was in my section, I didn't think much of it. Then I started researching the building and I was very pleasantly surprised. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><i>Black Lion House stands near the now demolished Black Lion Yard which used to be described as the ‘Hatton Garden of the East End’ due to its 18 jewellery shops. Black Lion Yard was a narrow passage that ran from Old Montague Street to Whitechapel Road. Before it became known for its jewellers it was known for its kosher dairy. Until 1902, The Jewish Soup Kitchen was based here and even had its own heard of cows. Despite petitions and media coverage Black Lion Yard was demolished in 1975.'</i></span></span><br />
<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span">Niamh Linnane</span></span></b>The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-58884527981792432022012-03-13T03:53:00.000-07:002012-03-19T05:40:23.330-07:00Reflections on Photography<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jon Spencer (see his website </span><a href="http://www.jonspencer.co.uk/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">) is the architectural photographer for the Panorama High Street 2012 project. He is taking photos of the elevations of every building along High Street 2012, and he is about half way through this extensive task. Here are his thoughts about the process so far...</span><br />
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I've done so far on producing the People's Panorama has already proved of great
interest. Although I knew the
streets that make up High Street 2012 as a visitor – the Whitechapel Gallery,
the old Atlantis site by the Bell Foundry, the living bridge and so on, the
time I've spent walking along the street for this project means I'm getting to
know it in much fuller way. From my own experience and distant memories of
lectures at architecture school, the occasional visitor often misrepresents the
relationship & relative position of elements spread along a long
thoroughfare, and I now feel like I've got a much better sense of the street,
its rhythm and tempo. </i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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diversity of buildings is remarkable – in period, style, scale and
function. I might not have given
much consideration to many of them in the past, but looking at each one
individually means I'm getting to know them all a little and am seeing
interesting or intriguing details & relationships that I would have missed
before.</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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the parts of the panorama completed so far, I'm really struck by the way this
wide range of buildings produces a fluctuating roofline to the final image … it
seems almost like we're in a canyon, but here the line rises and falls dramatically
to reveal glimpses of the city beyond the road, whether that's at the junction
with side streets, or more tantalisingly, in the small gaps between buildings.</i><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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technical perspective, the sheer scale of this project means I've come across a
number of issues in how to effectively describe these building façades as a
single panorama, when such a view doesn't really exist in reality. Relative
position & height of neighbouring buildings, buildings that address the
street at different angles, street clutter, distant towers and traffic. And
then there's the weather … but I don't need to tell you about that, right?!'</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt;"><b>Jon Spencer</b><i> </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-66489268445537891402012-03-07T02:25:00.000-08:002012-03-07T02:25:45.078-08:00Rapit Suvanajata discovers...<i><span style="font-family: Calibri,Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">'There are many memories and historical layers to all these buildings. At the end of Whitechapel Road, the last building number is 337 at present but the numbers used to run up to 345 in the past. Numbers 339-345 now is the outdoor space of the Blind Beggar pub (no.337)'</span></span></i>The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-31435634066262042062012-02-24T09:10:00.001-08:002012-03-19T05:41:48.982-07:00Zahra Rajaei's thoughts on researching Whitechapel High Street<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">'I have had a great time exploring my section of the High Street 2012 so far!
My section includes Whitechapel Art Gallery, which I’ve visited very often and
it is one of my favourite buildings on the high street. During my first visit
all my focus was on the gallery and it was only after coming home and doing a
bit of on-line research that I realised my section has a lot more to offer.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I realised I had completely missed a fine work of art just above the entrance of 88
Whitechapel High Street. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">It
is quite hard to spot the sign of 1934-5 by Arthur Szyk, it is said to be a
sign showing the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Calibri;">editorial heart of the Jewish
Daily Post. <span style="color: black;">Arthur Szyk</span> was a US based Jewish
artist well known for his illustrations, this piece was made while he lived in
London and is one of his few 3D pieces. </span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: Calibri;">I also found that The White Hart Pub is not just any old pub, it has a fascinating history. It was only during my second
visit that I learned about the mysteries of the pub and that it has been a pub
for more than 200 years. It is definitely worth a visit if you are interested in finding our about the darker history of Whitechapel! </span></i><br />
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is more to it, one more week to discover the wonders of Whitechapel High
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</div>The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-27178318722338389652012-02-10T04:01:00.001-08:002012-02-20T04:44:39.932-08:00Barry Blinko, one of the volunteers, writes about his research so far...<i><span style="font-family: Verdana,Helvetica,Arial;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">I recently received the section of High Street 2012 that I am to research and it is close to Bow Church. 'Easy' I thought! A group of council blocks of flats and a couple of large old buildings. Then I went along to February's training session at the archives. I realised that before the blocks of flats were built there was something else there. Suddenly not quite so easy.<br />
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I began my archives research this week and it became really interesting. I began to get a sense of the area. There used to be lots of shops of bygone trades - a chandlers, an eel stew shop, a clog maker, harness maker and so on. Also I found that at one time there was a music hall - The Eastern Empire Music Hall then renamed the Bow Palace Music Hall.<br />
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The trades that seemed almost guaranteed survival were the funeral directors and the public houses! Within a short distance there was the Bow Bells, which still exists complete with a reported ghost in the ladies toilet, Bird in Hand, Black Swan, Three Cups, White Horse and the Bombay Grab. Six pubs, a music hall and a cinema all in a short distance and only on one side of the road! It shows that it must have been a lively area. </span></span></i><br />
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<br />The Building Exploratoryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01234750871638008209noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9065743327292517150.post-19042430948933625522012-01-31T05:02:00.000-08:002012-02-20T04:37:48.469-08:00Welcome to the People's Panorama Blog!<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The People’s Panorama Project has begun, with the induction and training of 26 fantastic volunteers. The volunteers will research the history of every building along High Street 2012, and this work will form the majority of the content of a major on-line resource about this historic high street.</span></span> <span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The road is 6km long with approximately 600 distinctive buildings along it, so we are delighted to have a team of such dedicated volunteers to undertake this ambitious task. In carrying out their research, the volunteers will become the experts on High Street 2012, uncovering its history and hidden stories.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The team of volunteers will also contribute to the other exciting learning programmes that are part of the project. These will include an adults learning programme, a schools programme and a lifelong learning programme. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The team of volunteers will be adventuring out onto High Street 2012 on 4th February, to start their research. Keep an eye on this blog for updates of what the volunteers discover!</span></span><br />
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