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.

Monday 5 October 2009

Selexyz Domincan Church in Maastricht



This Domincan Church in the Netherlands built in 1294 has been adapted in an extraordinary way. Having been used for numerous purposes throughout it's history, including a warehouse, archive and a bike store, it is no stranger to new uses. Merkx + Girod are responsible for the latest intervention - a book store for the Selexyz chain.



Despite being different from the intended use for the Church of the Nazarene, this intervention shows one the innovtive uses for old churches and the contrast between the aesthetic of the old and the new.
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1 comment:

Oliver Cartwright said...

That second photograph is simply epic.

6 October 2009 at 13:42

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