Shark In Roof Headington

This is a shark diving into a roof.

Shark in roof headington.

The shark became the most famous resident of headington when it landed in the roof of 2 new high street in the early hours of saturday 9 august 1986. Catch the number 8 or 9 bus from centre of oxford approx. This ordinary home built as a semi detached house in about 1860 but now attached by a link to a second house to the north suddenly became the centre of world attention and the headless shark still excites interest today. It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki.

The shark was to express someone feeling totally impotent and ripping a hole in their roof out of a sense of impotence and anger and desperation. Pup architects builds rooftop pavilion disguised as warehouse air duct the fourth antepavilion will draw on the council s reaction to these predecessors and the story of the headington shark a. Since 1988 bill has been better known as a radio oxford presenter. Very effective you have to see it to believe it.

The history of the shark the shark became the most famous resident of headington when it appeared in the roof of 2 new high street on 9 august 1986. The headington shark proper name untitled 1986 is a rooftop sculpture located at 2 new high street headington oxford england depicting a large shark embedded head first in the roof of a house. The headington shark house in east. Bill heine hired a crane to lower the shark on the roof of his little terraced house as a symbol of peace on the anniversary of the nagasaki a bomb in 1986.

His friend the sculptor john buckley provided an answer in the shape of an eight metre 25ft shark which would sit on his roof perpetually appearing as though it had just crashed into the house. The people who put it there said something like this. And there was a picture of my spew.