Sheffield
Armed with the modernist’s Architectural City Guide to Sheffield, I had a pleasurable day bimbling around the city. I really warmed to it - perhaps because my great-great grandfather first settled here after emigrating from Germany in the 1960s. He opened a butchers on The Moor, the same street as The Moorfoot building (the red brick stepped building).
It’s a very walkable city where cars are rightly demoted to the periphery.
The buildings photographed here are:
The Moorfoot Building (1981) - formerly the Manpower Services Commission.
National Centre for Pop Music (1998) - subsequently Hallam Students Union but it now stands empty.
Persistence Works (1998) - a modern brutalist building which works. Thanks to lucky timing, my favourite living artist, George Shaw, had an exhibition and was in conversation on the day / evening I visited.
Moore Street Electricity Substation (1968 - Grade II) - an unsubtle concrete block built to feed the steel industry.
Sheffield University Arts Tower (1965 - Grade II*) - beautiful simplicity.
Park Hill has a separate gallery all to its own.
I hope to return again soon.
