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Old manpower building = depressing

Meadowhall = tacky.

O2 Roxy complex = ugly, sinister

Park hill =industrial monolith

Grovener hotel = Loppy, Bates motel.

Wolsey road mosque = poor design, out of place.

Whitbread brewery apartments = boring, unimaginative.

Elm tree Manor top = House on the hill.

Arena = Wasred opportunity

Ponds forge design = ?

 

Any more?

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Parkhill flats! What a hideous welcome to any visitor to Sheffield as they crawl down the Parkway in the traffic jam.

The Crucible still looks like it hasn't been finished, and the new market looks like it was built by apprentices (in their first year).

Oh yeah ... the Manpower Services building, all of the Moor, all of the university buildings on the corner of Upper Hanover street and Broad Lane, including/especially the new plastic spiders web looking monstrosity. The verdigris beridden university building opposite looks fairly okay, apart from poor build quality.

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Parkhill flats! What a hideous welcome to any visitor to Sheffield as they crawl down the Parkway in the traffic jam.

The Crucible still looks like it hasn't been finished, and the new market looks like it was built by apprentices (in their first year).

Oh yeah ... the Manpower Services building, all of the Moor, all of the university buildings on the corner of Upper Hanover street and Broad Lane, including/especially the new plastic spiders web looking monstrosity. The verdigris beridden university building opposite looks fairly okay, apart from poor build quality.

 

Yes of course the Crucible = breeze block disaster

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I love the Park Hill development and know lots of others that do too. Admittedly, most of them are not Sheffield people. To outsiders they were a brave new experiment and I a, very glad they have a preservation area.

If we'd continued to put so much energy into creating affordable homes for working people we wouldn't have the housing crisis we have now!

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