skyfitsboy
23-08-2004, 14:13
Following report from Sheffield City Council:
Councillors on the City Centre and East Planning Board will be asked to approve the final details of Sheffield’s new Millennium Square, off the Peace Gardens on Monday (23 August), including café terraces, eye-catching stainless steel water features and a carpet of lights across the ground.
The Board granted planning permission for the layout of Millennium Square by architects Allies and Morrison in May 2003, but details of paving, lighting and the public art were not fully known at the time and so were required to be submitted for later approval.
The full design now revealed includes paving mainly in Pennine grit-stone with smooth granite edges. Set in the paving will be dozens of LED lights that will give the space a sparkle at night and enliven the link between the Peace Gardens and Winter Garden.
In addition nine large stainless steel spheres varying in size from 500mm to 2 metres in diameter will be located throughout the space. Water will flow continuously from the top of each, covering the spheres evenly in a thin, moving film before trickling into a shallow pool around each one. LED lights set in the rim of the pools will add to the effect at night. The feature is intended to suggest drops of rain that have just landed on the surface of the square. It has been designed by Northumbrian sculptor Colin Rose.
The paving in Millennium Square is due to be completed by Christmas, with the other features in place by next March.
As in the Peace Gardens, the water will shut off automatically in windy conditions and when temperatures approach freezing. Management, security and cleaning will be of the same standard as in the Peace Gardens and Winter Garden.
On both long sides of the space there will be opportunities for café terraces served from either the new Macdonald Hotel or cafes in the ground-floor of the new offices now under construction.
The Millennium Square is expected to become a busy pedestrian route, forming a central part of a spectacular walk from the new Sheaf Square outside the Railway Station (now being developed). It will continue up the new Howard Street, through Hallam Square, the Millennium Galleries, the Winter Garden, and on through the Peace Gardens, Town Hall Square and the reshaped Barkers Pool, where work starts this Autumn.
Councillor Alan Law, Chair of the City Centre and East Planning Board commented: “This is another exciting piece of the jig-saw that will provide a new heart for Sheffield and one that will complement the superb designs in the Peace Gardens next to it.”
http://sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/press/news/release.asp?akey=2162
Councillors on the City Centre and East Planning Board will be asked to approve the final details of Sheffield’s new Millennium Square, off the Peace Gardens on Monday (23 August), including café terraces, eye-catching stainless steel water features and a carpet of lights across the ground.
The Board granted planning permission for the layout of Millennium Square by architects Allies and Morrison in May 2003, but details of paving, lighting and the public art were not fully known at the time and so were required to be submitted for later approval.
The full design now revealed includes paving mainly in Pennine grit-stone with smooth granite edges. Set in the paving will be dozens of LED lights that will give the space a sparkle at night and enliven the link between the Peace Gardens and Winter Garden.
In addition nine large stainless steel spheres varying in size from 500mm to 2 metres in diameter will be located throughout the space. Water will flow continuously from the top of each, covering the spheres evenly in a thin, moving film before trickling into a shallow pool around each one. LED lights set in the rim of the pools will add to the effect at night. The feature is intended to suggest drops of rain that have just landed on the surface of the square. It has been designed by Northumbrian sculptor Colin Rose.
The paving in Millennium Square is due to be completed by Christmas, with the other features in place by next March.
As in the Peace Gardens, the water will shut off automatically in windy conditions and when temperatures approach freezing. Management, security and cleaning will be of the same standard as in the Peace Gardens and Winter Garden.
On both long sides of the space there will be opportunities for café terraces served from either the new Macdonald Hotel or cafes in the ground-floor of the new offices now under construction.
The Millennium Square is expected to become a busy pedestrian route, forming a central part of a spectacular walk from the new Sheaf Square outside the Railway Station (now being developed). It will continue up the new Howard Street, through Hallam Square, the Millennium Galleries, the Winter Garden, and on through the Peace Gardens, Town Hall Square and the reshaped Barkers Pool, where work starts this Autumn.
Councillor Alan Law, Chair of the City Centre and East Planning Board commented: “This is another exciting piece of the jig-saw that will provide a new heart for Sheffield and one that will complement the superb designs in the Peace Gardens next to it.”
http://sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/press/news/release.asp?akey=2162