New buildings in Sheffield - Do you like them?

[crookesey]

Some of the buildings I like, the office buildings mainly, some of them I don't, the boring aparment blocks mainly.

 

I like the offices next tot he river across from the Bristol Hotel, the ones on kind of stilts.

 

I agree with you regarding the office buildings but they are the ones we rarely or never see the inside of, we don't see the view etc, etc.

The apartments (IMHO) are the slums of the future at worst or student accommodation at best.

 

I honestly don't know and at my age linked with the lack of speed of the redevelopment I will probably never see the finished article. Blame the planners of the 1960's with their love of concrete and hatred of anything old. Hitler prompted the rebuilding of The Moor when the city centre should have been squared off around Division Street and Leoplold Street with the office blocks going on The Moor.

[andco]

As a City Centre, I find it increasingly unattractive , far removed from the centre I have known for as long as I've been in Sheffield with significant improvements being demolition of the egg-box & hole in the road.

[nick2]

Lyceum

 

I agree it's a nice builidng, but it's not exactly "new".

[mc55]

I love the new glass tower block on Waitrose roundabout, but some of the other buildings that have gone up recently i think will date quite quickly.

 

However, having said that I think the investment that is currently taking place in Sheffield is fantastic. We viewed the new plans for the city centre development on Saturday (they are in a building near to Pin Street). There are 8 different phases that have been designed by 8 different architects and I'm not sure about how cohesive they will be once in place.

 

I do however think it is a terrible shame that some of the buildings they need to demolish are actually very beautiful.

 

Does anyone know what is planned for the old Salvation Army building - I know its under private ownership and is a listed building, but it'll fall down before long if nothing is done. It would make a fabulous gallery space.

[crookesey]

I love the new glass tower block on Waitrose roundabout, but some of the other buildings that have gone up recently i think will date quite quickly.

 

However, having said that I think the investment that is currently taking place in Sheffield is fantastic. We viewed the new plans for the city centre development on Saturday (they are in a building near to Pin Street). There are 8 different phases that have been designed by 8 different architects and I'm not sure about how cohesive they will be once in place.

 

I do however think it is a terrible shame that some of the buildings they need to demolish are actually very beautiful.

 

Does anyone know what is planned for the old Salvation Army building - I know its under private ownership and is a listed building, but it'll fall down before long if nothing is done. It would make a fabulous gallery space.

 

They tried to get a long drinks licence, can you imagine the Salvation Army agreeing to that, I bet that they still hold the freehold title.

[Taffi]

I agree sheffield is rather unattractive but slowly sheffield city council are starting to get their act together and do something about it. For example the revamp in front of the Train Station up to novatel, looks pretty good now (pity you get to the peak and see Novatel but never mind.) And then there is the peace gardens, In an Ideal world Novatel would be torn down and the route from the train station would carry on up to the peace gardens.

 

I hate the ravamp in front of City Hall, but probably done on cheap because that gets affected when the new Meadowhell gets built in city centre.

 

This new Meadowhell is a 20yr old project, originally scoped and planned out in the late 80's, an example of SCC incompetence to provide services to its constituants.

 

Does sheffield really need to become all Steel and Glass? Why can't it retain some of it's historic architecture and renovate? Why not combine Modern and Old?

[gularscute]

The Winter Gardens is the only aesthetically pleasing building to have been built in Sheffield in decades. Everything else is either nondescript and boxy or misshapen and excruciatingly ugly like that sickly green university building.

[Taffi]

excruciatingly ugly like that sickly green university building.

 

But at least its using alternative materials, adding a bit of colour, and unique.

 

Has anyone seen the modern architecture in Berlin? its inspiring, it would never work over here, planning and local government would never allow it!

[Mandem]

One of the worst is the new 'Information Commons' on the Brook Hill roundabout. To think they demolished two beautiful old Georgian Houses to build that.

[Sheff_Jeff]

The problem is we're going through a construction boom, just like Leeds did 10 years ago. The thing is the majority of buildings being built are done on the cheap and are just copies of the one next to it. Why does every duilding have to have a blue panel on it? anyone else noticed that?

 

St Pauls Tower (32 floors) will shadow the winter gardens at certain times of the day, ( I did a model in an environmental design software program which is used by some of the major architects to get this result) It is a poor design for surrounding public spaces.

 

In addition to all these apartments going up, whos idea is it to make them so cramped it's like living in a coffin?

 

So far in sheffield I've only been impressed by a small handful of buildings. ie. Winter gardens, the lime green facade building on Spital Hill. Everything else is just a repeat, a repeat, a repeat.

 

The buildings around the Peace gardens are a disgrace, the haphazard approach to the planning means someone wants shooting. Why have a brilliant building like the Winter Gardens and then hide it in between a couple of God awful buildings like the Hotel and that stupid office block / Cafe Rouge building? The building that houses Cafe Rouge is one of the worst buildings I've ever seen and only a fool would have let it past the planning stage as it adds no harmony whatsoever.

 

St Pauls tower is only going to add to the randomness of the buildings around there. I guess money talks more than common sense.