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.

Very effective you have to see it to believe it. A 20ft shark diving into the roof of a house. Since 1988 bill has been better known as a radio oxford presenter. 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.

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. It is saying something about cnd nuclear power chernobyl and nagasaki. This is a shark diving into a roof. The headington shark house in east.

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. 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. 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. 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.

Catch the number 8 or 9 bus from centre of oxford approx. 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. Bill heine is the brains behind the shark and still owns the house.