Shark In Roof Headington

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.

Shark in roof headington.

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. Very effective you have to see it to believe it. 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.

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 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. 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.

Since 1988 bill has been better known as a radio oxford presenter. The people who put it there said something like this. 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. And there was a picture of my spew.

This is a shark diving into a roof. 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. A 20ft shark diving into the roof of a house.