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St Silas Church, Kentish Town

20th-century Church of England church buildingsAnglo-Catholic church buildings in the London Borough of Camden
The Church of S. Silas The Martyr, Kentish Town, St. Silas Place, NW5 geograph.org.uk 1458352
The Church of S. Silas The Martyr, Kentish Town, St. Silas Place, NW5 geograph.org.uk 1458352

The Church of Saint Silas the Martyr is a Church of England parish church in Kentish Town, London. The church is a grade II* listed building.

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St Silas Church, Kentish Town
St Silas Place, London Chalk Farm (London Borough of Camden)

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St Silas The Martyr

St Silas Place
NW5 3PS London, Chalk Farm (London Borough of Camden)
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Roundhouse (venue)
Roundhouse (venue)

The Roundhouse is a performing arts and concert venue situated at the Grade II* listed former railway engine shed in Chalk Farm, London, England. The building was erected in 1846–1847 by the London & North Western Railway as a roundhouse, a circular building containing a railway turntable, but was used for that purpose for only about a decade. After being used as a warehouse for a number of years, the building fell into disuse just before World War II. It was first made a listed building in 1954.It reopened after 25 years, in 1964, as a performing arts venue, when the playwright Arnold Wesker established the Centre 42 Theatre Company and adapted the building as a theatre. The large circular structure has hosted various promotions, such as the launch of the underground paper International Times in 1966, one of only two UK appearances by The Doors with Jim Morrison in 1968, and the Greasy Truckers Party in 1972.The Greater London Council ceded control of the building to Camden Council in 1983. By that time, Centre 42 had run out of funds and the building remained unused until a local businessman purchased the building in 1996 and performing arts shows returned. It was closed again in 2004 for a multi-million pound redevelopment. On 1 June 2006, the Argentine show Fuerzabruta opened at the new Roundhouse.Since 2006, the Roundhouse has hosted the BBC Electric Proms and numerous iTunes Festivals, as well as award ceremonies such as the BT Digital Music Awards and the Vodafone Live Music Awards. In 2009, Bob Dylan performed a concert, and iTunes promoted a music iTunes Festival, at the venue. In line with the continuing legacy of avant-garde productions, NoFit State Circus performed the show Tabú during which the audience were encouraged to move around the performance space.

Inter-Action Centre

The Inter-Action Centre was one of architect Cedric Price's few realized projects. The community centre, sited at Talacre Public Open Space in Kentish Town, Camden, London was commissioned in 1964 by Ed Berman and Inter-Action Trust and built in 1971.Inter-Action Centre is notable in particular because it was one of the first buildings to make concrete the ideas of flexible architecture and impermanence. Price's body of work as a whole had a tremendous influence on the architecture profession, and the Inter-Action Centre helped realize the ambitions of his earlier, unbuilt Fun Palace (which proposed the fusion of architecture and information technology, entertainment and educational activities) and Potteries Thinkbelt. It was constructed around an open framework into which modular, pre-fabricated elements could be inserted and removed according to need. It was essentially a building that could be reconfigured over time as its occupants' requirements evolved. Often compared to Centre Pompidou and other high-tech buildings of the time, the Inter-Action Centre differed in being explicitly designed around a democratic approach to architecture.Price had been working with, and was influenced by, cybernetician Gordon Pask and used the Inter-Action Centre as way to present an architectural approach to second-order cybernetics. The Inter-Action Centre was architectural evidence that Price's radical and utopian agenda could be materialized in a built form with a clear social agenda, though there is also a view that the building showed that his goals were not quite realizable in the real world.Price himself persuaded English Heritage not to list the building and supported its demolition in 2003 because he believed it had fulfilled its purpose as a temporary commodity with a short lifespan.