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.

Shark in roof headington.

The headington shark house in east. A 20ft shark diving into the roof of a house. Bill heine is the brains behind the shark and still owns the house. 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.

I was born into a family with a slightly unusual home it has a 25 ft fibreglass shark designed by the sculptor john buckley crashing through the roof tiles. Since 1988 bill has been better known as a radio oxford presenter. Catch the number 8 or 9 bus from centre of oxford approx. The people who put it there said something like this.

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. And there was a picture of my spew. 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.

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. 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. It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki.