Photo on the BBC Sheffield website

[sweetdexter]

I just read an article on the BBC South Yorkshire website about a grant for people to open shops in the City core.

It showed a panoramic shot taken from behind the railway station .What is the building under construction and towering twice as high as any surrounding structures,also it shows a Ferris Wheel in the vicinity of the Town Hall.

Can someone tell an ex-pat who has not visited for a few years what these two structures are?

Is this an old photo from the BBC library because I see there was a Ferris Wheel a few years ago at Xmas

[Thorpist]

It is an old photo

if you use google street view and go to arundel gate you will see the tall building which I believe are offices with a multistorey car park next door.

I think the old yorkshire grey pub was at this location

[Fogey]

The tall building is the 32 storey St Pauls tower which is residential. The cheesegrater next to it is a multi storey car park.

 

http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1870208

 

The ferris wheel was pretty much a ferris wheel, similar things have been seen in many major cities. It was a temporary thing. It gave some interesting views across the top of the city.

[Guest]

Lovely view. Those squat, tan, tiny windowed cuboids and the shiny Borg structure really set off that huge middle finger of a grey slab nicely.

 

ETA: That pub in the foreground is really crying out for some grey and white plastic cladding.

Edited July 30, 2015 by Guest