
Workshop - Unlocking Pentonville: Building the Brief
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Description
An open workshop as part of the Unlocking Pentonville weekend of events.
Background
For this year’s London Festival of Architecture, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects is unearthing memories of Pentonville Prison to imagine a radically different future for its site.
HM Prison Service is selling its inner city jails, releasing their sites for redevelopment. Nearby Holloway Prison is being marketed and a planning brief has been written; it is likely that the iconic Pentonville will follow. Given the prison’s history and listed status, pressure from the King’s Cross development and concerns around housing, the challenge is to envision a new life for the site that communicates its past and relevance into the future.
Unlocking Pentonville aims to imagine a radical new vision for this area of Caledonian Road by producing a spatial, social and economic proposition for the prison site. Through a provocative exhibition and a weekend of public debates and workshops, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects will lead the Caledonian Road community in asking ‘what next?’ for the troubled prison’s landmark structures.
Create your Pentonville – all weekend when the exhibition is open
Come and create your own ideas for Pentonville on our big wooden model! Play architect to the prison with a set of pieces – buildings, structures, streets and landmarks – open to everyone throughout the weekend, no experience necessary!
Unlocking Pentonville: Building the Brief
Join Sarah Wigglesworth Architects on Sunday afternoon to have your say on a future planning brief for the prison site. Taking stock of the weekend’s discussions and everyone’s ideas from the Create your Pentonville model, together we will distill some founding principles for a Pentonville vision.