Wazzock Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Seems most of the ugly buildings are instigated by the University, another monstrosity is to be built next to the Jury Inn on top of Furnival Street, a purpose built accommodation block for students, there's plenty of brown field sites in Attercliffe and such, seems the University can do just as they please. what do you actually want then, small sheds, loads of wasteland and surface car parks?! some of the comments by people on here beggar belief, this is supposed to be a large city not a damn village up the arse end of nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eater Sundae Posted July 6, 2016 Share Posted July 6, 2016 Seems most of the ugly buildings are instigated by the University, another monstrosity is to be built next to the Jury Inn on top of Furnival Street, a purpose built accommodation block for students, there's plenty of brown field sites in Attercliffe and such, seems the University can do just as they please. I think it is good that the Universities actually try and create buildings with individual character, unlike identikit buildings such as the courts at West Bar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yog Sothoth Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 I'm still hoping that hallam might buy the old Courts, but I fear it's a bit far away from campus and the current idiot owners want too much for it. Anyone know if they covered over the skylights which got smashed recently? ---------- Post added 20-07-2016 at 10:07 ---------- The old manpower Services building at moorfoot could be made beautiful by turning the stepped terraces into gardens, with plants and small trees. Imagine it in spring, covered in pink flowering cherries... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 2, 2016 Share Posted September 2, 2016 Sheffield's lovely Cubic Zirconia Diamond is one of the nominees in this year's Carbuncle Cup: Holding up a dark mirror to the Stirling prize, the Carbuncle Cup singles out the worst offenders of the year, the abominations that blight our skylines and bully our streets, the mean-minded developer tat that clutters cities up and down the country. From botched renovations to bloated towers, it awards the most heinous “crimes against architecture” – or crimes against the public. Surprisingly, The Diamond wasn't the work of Elizabeth Duke at Argos, but the good folk at a firm called Twelve Architects. Apparently, they took inspiration from the beautiful church next door: The diamond-cladding craze continues with this £81m undergraduate engineering facility for the University of Sheffield, built to house 20,000 sq m of laboratories, lecture theatres and workshops inside its garish latticework garb. In one of the most tenuous justifications in the history of planning applications, the designers claim the pattern “references the stone tracery of an adjacent church”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerbyTup Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 What about those 2 stone watchtowers that they are currently erecting in St Mary's gate? What on earth are they? I assume they are to spot fans leaving Sheff Utd games early? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexander874 Posted September 6, 2016 Share Posted September 6, 2016 Lift shafts I imagine . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unisol Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 What about those 2 stone watchtowers that they are currently erecting in St Mary's gate? What on earth are they? I assume they are to spot fans leaving Sheff Utd games early? They are the cores to the tallest sections of the New Era Square. Have you not seen the renders on the hoarding panels surrounding the development?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samssong Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 We are in the running to win the Carbuncle cup due to the monstrosity that the University has forced upon this City at Brookhill. I say forced because it seems as though whatever mad scheme they want gets approved by the planning department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffrey Shaw Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 We are in the running to win the Carbuncle cup due to the monstrosity that the University has forced upon this City at Brookhill. I say forced because it seems as though whatever mad scheme they want gets approved by the planning department. No, 'The Diamond' did not make the cut! See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37294090 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin-H Posted September 7, 2016 Share Posted September 7, 2016 No, 'The Diamond' did not make the cut! See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37294090 It made the shortlist, which I think says a lot! One of the ugliest new buildings in the whole of the UK. When you take into account the beautiful Edwardian building that was demolished for that..thing.. it makes it seem even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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