folding wall system
Panels small or large can be manoeuvred to stack compactly within a room at either the end of the track or remotely within a storage recess.
Brandbase have designed a temporary space for their new office location. because of its impermanence, the client proposed a low-budget renovation, in which most architecture decided to employ 270 shipping pallets to shape and inform the workplace.
The open concept suits the advertising agency's collaborative approach, whereby long workstations made from stacked pallets create a casual work environment.
The interior has been painted completely white, providing a homogeneous base for the pallet structures. outside of forming the furniture, the employed low-cost material is used architecturally to build the staircases.
Alex Haw’s design for a temporary workspace looks at ways the body uses a given working environment, and expands its use by catering for multiple body positions, ranging from vertical to horizontal. This reassessment of the way the workspace is used is perhaps the start of a future reconfiguration of the idea of the office.
Quotes from the people behind temple works
Temple
Works has been used frequently as a set for filmmakers and photographers. Susan
said: “We’ve got a myriad of spaces and the details are extraordinary. We
stripped away anything that looked modern here - we stripped everything away
that was a signifier of time. So if you filmed here it could be set any time.
We specialise in
vampire, zombie, sci-fi, etc. We do punk and gothic photo-shoots. We’re the
premiere destination for dead people!”
The
building is also home to a number of creative people. Susann explained: “We
have a fluctuating group of residents. But generally, it always includes
filmmakers, artists, musicians, photographers, and theatre groups. We are also
home to the Leeds Model Railway Society – they’re our prize possession, they’re
very extreme! They’ve been at it since 1947 and one of their founding members
is still there. No one’s paid here, not even myself, but we can make money out
of Temple Works and that’s what makes it interesting for everyone involved.”
The
biggest concern is the large cracks that have appeared in the main room. Susan
explained: “We have a really serious structural problem here. So our big task
here really is to restring the building – which will take a lot of time and
money. The big question is who is going to pay for the repairs? Just because
the building is privately owned, it doesn’t mean to say that they are obliged
to foot the repair bill for a massive national monument – there’s a public
responsibility as well.”
Privately
owned and run, and receiving no external funding, Temple Works is now set to
become a major mixed-mode cultural venue CALLED Temple.Works.Leeds,
after being granted Planning permission in 2010 to change the use of one of
Leeds only two Grade 1 Listed monuments. While the spectacular 2 acre main
space undergoes repair, it acts as a backdrop to the rest of the slowly
restored site which includes an old paintshop, joiners shop, external sheds, listed
toilets, the old Works Canteen and a myriad of other wonderful spaces and
places. The lengthy repair period necessary for such a unique structure has
given the Temple.Works.Leeds team
the chance to involve local and regional artists in testing the site’s spatial
qualities and choreography.
Artists
are now rehearsing, holding events and in residence, helping create the first
three years of a contemporary cultural programme.
This has included a six month programme of online film production and filmed
events distributed through social media, techno nightlife and themed parties,
promenade theatre and dance, art installations and performance art, digital and
‘live’ art, sound and light spectacles. When not in programme use,
these unusual and unpolished spaces are available for private and corporate
hire for shoots, meetings, conventions, exhibitions and more and several new
cultural organisations have
made Temple Works their base.
The History
Temple
Works in Holbeck is
the Grade 1 listed Victorian former flax mill that made history as “the largest
room in the world”, with sheep grazing on a skylit roof in the heart of Leeds industrial
revolution. With a facade modelled on the Temple of Horus at Edfu in
Egypt it was designed by Joseph Bonomi the Youngerand built byJohn_Marshall
(industrialist) between 1836 and 1840. Temple Works is referred to in schools
of architecture and engineering the world over not so much for the unusual
facade however but for the unique and visionary engineering solution of the
main mill floor, reminiscent of Frank Lloyd Wrights Johnson Wax Building a
century later.
My photography on visit to Temple Works
Temple works surrounding area.
Temple works exterior - Greek inspired architecture - grade 1 listed building - old flax mill.
Venue
and
studio hire
While
not in direct programme use,
many spaces at Temple Works are available for corporate hire, conferences,
meetings and private parties. Sizes vary greatly, from the 1,600 sq ft Paintshop, to
the double-height 1,500 sq ft Open
Loading Bay, to the 2,900 sq ft Joiners Bar, the 5,000 sq ft Old
Canteen and – soon – the double height 1,500 sq ft Boiler Room. We have a large marquee and
free parking on evenings and weekends; and while parts of the site do not yet
have full power restored, Temple.Works.Leeds
residents can be hired to carry out all technical needs on for each event
including temporary power supply. Temple.Works.Leeds can
run also run a bar, manage the door, offer full security and stewarding, and
arrange catering (with either pre-qualified suppliers or a client’s own
choice). A limited number of studio spaces are also still available for rental
to compatible local artists, upon application.
Venue and studio hire
Temple Works Leeds
Temple
Works Leeds is an exciting, magical new cultural project in the North.
Already
it has seen more than six films made by international film makers; five
photo-shoots featuring names from the worlds of fashion, music and art; four
installations, including robots, ringing telephones and random creatures; three
notorious performances, which had to be seen to be believed; a couple of rowdy,
raucous all night music events; and one major massive, technologically marvellous
light and sound show. And it's barely begun!
What
unites all these excellent events is an experimental and edgy vision; unique
and unusual work, things that wouldn't have a chance or couldn't be done in any
other place.
Currently
Temple Works Leeds is looking for artists and performers, painters and writers,
photographers and musicians, and any other dreamers of dreams and makers of
interesting stuff to take on the challenge. If you have a fabulous project that
you'd love to develop, an exhibition that you'd kill to curate, a piece of work
that you're passionate about performing, or simply an idea that you'd like to
make happen, why not come and talk to us. temple.works.leeds is a
great space if you have a great idea.
Temple
Works Leeds
Marshall
Street, Holbeck,
LS11 9YJ
View the Temple Works Leeds websitewww.templeworksleeds.com
See location of Temple Works Leeds on Google maps.See
location on Google maps.
Map
reference: SE 295327 Lat:
53.78977 Long: -1.55369
By
road:
From
M1
Continue
along the M1 joining the M621
Exit
at J3
Follow
the signs to CITY CENTRE along VICTORIA ROAD and NEVILLE STREET
Before
the Hilton Hotel turn left onto WATER LANE and keep left when the road forks at
Matthew Murray House.
Take
the following left at the corner of Out Of The Woods Cafe onto MARSHALL STREET.
Temple
Works is up on the right.
From
M62
Exit
onto M621/J3/M621 J4
Continue
straight ahead following signs to the City Centre
Continue
onto NEVILLE STREET
Before
the Hilton Hotel turn left onto WATER LANE
Take
the following left at the corner of Out Of The Woods Cafe onto MARSHALL STREET.
Temple
Works is up on the right.
By
Public Transport
From
the station’s front entrance, turn left and walk towards City Square and when
you reach the traffic lights take a right onto Neville Street. Walk under the
bridge past the Hilton Hotel with Granary Wharf on your right. Go over Victoria
Bridge. Before Bridgewater Place take a right onto Water Lane and carry on past
The Midnight Bell and The Cross Keys till you reach Out Of The Woods on the
corner, then turn left down Marshall Street. Temple Works is just beyond
Marshall’s Mill, unmissable, on
your right.
Parking
: free
Nearest
station : 1 mile (1.6 kms)
from Leeds station
It was around the time of the building of Temple works when, in 1834, railway links between Leeds and Liverpool were connected, merely eighteen years after the canals connecting the coasts were finished. The development of both of these transportation veins were crucial links between Leeds and other industrial cities around the United Kingdom. Of course, thanks to the development of each of them, merchants in Leeds found it much easier to trade with the rest of Europe and the new world. Although the town continued to grow, the development was not all plain sailing; as the development of machinery around Britain continued to advance, so did the fear of this new equipment and the Luddite Movement therein attacked mills in the Leeds area in 1812 and in 1842, military intervention was found necessary to suppress a Chartist insurrection.
A little over eight years later however and the Industrial Revolution would be recognised as all but over and the machines that the fanatics set to destroy would be with us forever; though they would be continually developed and renewed, as can be seen in 1859 with the building of the first oil well; consequently signalling the birth of the internal combustion engine.
It was around the time of the building of Temple works when, in 1834, railway links between Leeds and Liverpool were connected, merely eighteen years after the canals connecting the coasts were finished. The development of both of these transportation veins were crucial links between Leeds and other industrial cities around the United Kingdom. Of course, thanks to the development of each of them, merchants in Leeds found it much easier to trade with the rest of Europe and the new world. Although the town continued to grow, the development was not all plain sailing; as the development of machinery around Britain continued to advance, so did the fear of this new equipment and the Luddite Movement therein attacked mills in the Leeds area in 1812 and in 1842, military intervention was found necessary to suppress a Chartist insurrection.
Industrial revolution in leeds
‘The phrase “Industrial Revolution” can be interpreted in many ways. It is not simply a matter of technical innovation, but also of the economic, social and political changes which were made possible by the revolution in technology.’[i]
Lying upon the banks of the River Aire, Leeds finds itself in no unlucky geographical position. Since 1816, a canal link between Liverpool and Leeds meant that Leeds was now at the epicentre of northern trading; connected to two major coastal ports at opposing sides of the country. The positioning of Leeds however, is no coincidence and the reasoning behind this can be traced back to 1207, during the High Middle Ages.
Although Leeds is indeed mentioned in The Domesday Book of 1086 (notable for containing around 200 people), the true reckoning of Leeds came about when Lord of the Manor, Maurice Paynel (otherwise known as Maurice ‘Paynel’ De Grant), established a charter in the hope of creating a new town. Establishing this creation meant that the underfunded Maurice would be able to free people from the land; so they could learn trades useful to the local area where they would pay high rent to the Lord of the Manor. The preamble of the original charter reads;
‘I Maurice Paynall have given and granted and by this charter confirmed to my burgesses of Leeds and their heirs franchise and free burgage and their tofts and with each toft half an acre of land for tillage to hold these of me and my heirs in fief and inheritance freely quit and honourably rendering annually to me and my heirs for each toft and half an acre of land sixteen pence at Pentecost and at Martinmas.’
Leeds 1st recorded map!
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