The Terrace Open Day

The Terrace Open Day - Saturday 27th September 2008 - Come and have a look round!

On Saturday 27th September The Terrace, on the corner of Flaxengate and Grantham Street in Lincoln, will be open to members of the public from 10.00 am through until 4.00 pm. Visitors will be able to have a look round the building and find out about the facilities at The Terrace and how creative people and businesses operate here.

There will be regular tours of the building during the day and an exhibition of the services on offer here.

The Café/Bar open throughout the day.

Admission is free.

For further details visit http://www.london2012.com/get-involved/cultural-olympiad/events/260.php

Wayne Hemingway at The Terrace

Wayne Hemingway MBE will officially declare the Terrace open, on Wednesday the 24th of September.

Having started the now worldwide established fashion company Red or Dead from a clothing stall in London’s Camden and Kensington Markets, Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway managed to break into the highly competitive fashion world.

With 21 consecutive London Fashion Week appearances, and three unprecedented prestigious British Fashion Council’s Streetstyle Designer of the Year Awards in 1996, 1997 and 1998, the pair who met at a disco in Burnley, sold the company for a multi-million pound figure to start an affordable and social design business Hemingway Design.

“We fell in to Red or Dead with no money and fell out with lots; but most of all it was a challenge and fantastic fun from beginning to end,” said Wayne. “We like to think that we played a part in removing the stigma from shopping for cool stuff on the high street and paved the way for forward thinkers to put the likes of Top Man and Top Shop before overpriced and over marketed labels.”

Born in 1961, Wayne and Gerardine are now responsible for some of the country’s most stunning and awe inspiring architecture. Completed projects include ‘The Staiths Southbank,’ a sizeable home development site on the banks of the River Tyne in Gateshead, and ‘The Bridge Dartford’, a development of 1000 designer homes in Kent.

Wayne and Gerardine have won a series of high profile awards including Housing Design Awards for the best large project and Building Magazine’s ‘Best Housing-Led Regeneration Project.’

This summer will also see the transformation of an old building on the Boscombe seafront to Hemingway designed ‘Super Surf Pods’ which will accompany Europe’s first artificial surf reef.
Wayne and Gerardine were each awarded an MBE for services to the design industry, in the 2006 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

The Terrace opening ceremony will take place is the presence of the Mayor of the City Of Lincoln, Councillor Ron Hills and over 100 invited guests.