Demolition (Channel 4) - Vote for a horrid Sheffield Building

[JimFX 10]

Originally posted by nick2

as long as it looks old fashioned ?

 

No, like I said before, I like the Winter Gardens and NCPM, which don't look old fashioned. If anything is old fashioned (i.e. circa 60s) it is St Appaulings!

[TeaFan 10]

Originally posted by JimFX

No, like I said before, I like the Winter Gardens and NCPM, which don't look old fashioned. If anything is old fashioned (i.e. circa 60s) it is St Appaulings!

 

Touche! Well put. My vote goes to Currys on Furnival Gate. Battlehsip grey plastic cladding. Nice.

[nick2 10]

Originally posted by JimFX

If anything is old fashioned (i.e. circa 60s) it is St Appaulings!

 

It looks nothing like the 60's buildings in Sheffield.

[Tony 10]

Originally posted by nick2

I bet Sheffield people were the first to sabotage the machines of the Industrial Revolution. I don't know about the future, it looks like the present is too modern for some of us.

 

And we wonder why big companies don't re-locate to Sheffield ?

I don't know any other city that harks back with misty eyed sentimentality to the good old days when 'Little Mesters' worked 7 days a week for pittance pay and the reward of a lovely lingering blood coughing death by the age of 35 though silicosis or the joy of a stone grinding wheel exploding in the face at any random moment.

[nick2 10]

Originally posted by Tony

I don't know any other city that harks back with misty eyed sentimentality to the good old days when 'Little Mesters' worked 7 days a week for pittance pay and the reward of a lovely lingering blood coughing death by the age of 35 though silicosis or the joy of a stone grinding wheel exploding in the face at any random moment.

 

They would strole home down broad leafy evenues through a neo-classical masterpiece of town planning with architecture to rival Rome or Venice. They might linger in one of the many parks and squares for a rest and to watch the children happily playing with their kites or to admire the well-tended flower borders. Finally they arrived home at their quaint little cottage which was small and humble but served their needs.

 

Oh, if only we could turn the clock back ?

[daveblade 10]

What about Stokes tiles on Moore Street?

[noobie 10]

Originally posted by nick2

They would strole home down broad leafy evenues through a neo-classical masterpiece of town planning with architecture to rival Rome or Venice.

 

Well, I'd much prefer Sheffield to look like Rome or Venice than Milton Keynes, which is how far the imagination of the St Pauls place developers seems to go.

[nick2 10]

Originally posted by noobie

Well, I'd much prefer Sheffield to look like Rome or Venice than Milton Keynes, which is how far the imagination of the St Pauls place developers seems to go.

 

The problem is that they would have never got planning permission if they were too imaginative, image if they proposed something like the Lloyds building, Sheffield folk would faint at the thought of something so radical.

[Guest unners]

I prefered Sheffield circa 1945 when it was all blitzed.Better than the modern rubbish going up now.(being sarcastic)

[noobie 10]

I reckon if Winter Gardens swapped places with the St Paul's disaster, it could have been much a better use of the space. Too late now... The city suffers from talentless (or corrupt) planners i guess.

[m0nkey 10]

http://sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/press/news/release.asp?akey=3283

 

http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=2&newsID=1959

[Captain_Scarlet 10]

Originally posted by m0nkey

http://sccplugins.sheffield.gov.uk/press/news/release.asp?akey=3283

 

http://www.24dash.com/content/news/viewNews.php?navID=2&newsID=1959

I'm confused, if the 32 storey tower is going there where's this car park and casino going then ? in between St Paul's and tower (which I believe was given the green light a while ago and discussed in another thread) ?