About This Live Project
The Church of the Nazarene on Victoria Street, Sheffield, is currently a disused, grade II listed building owned by the University. Despite the music department moving into the adjacent Jessop building and new, purpose-built SoundHouse, they are still lacking a space for performance. The vision is to adapt the empty church into a licensed performance space for music, which can become a home for music and a face for musicians to present their music to the city of Sheffield.
The music department engages in a diverse range of performing activities from classical chamber music, to opera and contemporary music theatre, including world music performance, electroacoustic music and mixed media. The proposed performance space will be central to the day to day functioning (rehearsing, performing, teaching) as well as knowledge transfer and community activities, of the music department. Ensemble in residence Ensemble 360 and world music performer in residence John Ball would perform there, along with a steady stream of internationally acclaimed visiting performers.
First Post & Precedent
Welcome to the blog for our Live Project.
Let's get things started with a precedent. This one is called
The North Wall by
Haworth Tompkins.
The buildings form the new arts centre for the St . Edwards School in Oxford, the heart of which is a flexible 250 seat theatre.
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2 comments:
The University department of Music believes 300+ seats will be commercially viable...Well this precedent has 250, looks like a similar size to Church of Nazarene but with only a minimal perimeter gallery - things look hopeful?
I think the possibility of a perimeter gallery is interesting, especially with the challenge set by the columns in the main space - it could be a good device to prevent them dominating, although i don't think we should see them as totally negative.
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