Civic Day Guided Walk: Peace Gardens to Park Hill (via South Street Park / Arboretum)
Thanks to everyone who participated in our guided walk to celebrate the first National Civic Day in Sheffield yesterday.
At 11am on Saturday 25 June we met in the Peace Gardens and journeyed to Park Hill via the fabulous new public space across the railway at South Street Park/Arboretum. The walk also took in St Paul’s Square, the Winter Gardens, Tudor Square, Howard Street and Sheaf Square.
Richard Watts, Sheffield City Council’s Projects Design Team Manager, kindly agreed to join us and provided helpful insights along the walk.
It was great to catch up with old friends and make new ones.
We have much to be proud about in Sheffield. Sheffield Civic Trust will continue to work with partners, engage in new initiatives and celebrate these wonderful assets.
Tour of Urban Splash’s Park Hill Scheme – Fully Booked!
Friday 24 June 1pm – meet at the South Street Entrance to the development on South Street, Park Hill.
Confirmed attendees need to sign in with site security on entry to the site (the cabin is under the ‘I Love You Will U Marry Me’ bridge).
As Park Hill celebrates its 50th Birthday, we are delighted to confirm a free illustrated talk and tour of this iconic building with Mark Latham of Urban Splash.
Due to a fabulous response and interest in Park Hill this event was fully booked. If you missed out don’t worry we are likely to arrange another tour with Urban Splash next month and we will confirm arrangements in due course.
How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster?
Thursday 23 June 8.30pm at the Showroom, we continue our ‘Building Visions’ film programme with this screening of ‘How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster?’
Directed by Norberto Lopez Amado and Carlos Carcas, the film features the life and work of Sir Norman Foster (Baron Foster of Thames Bank).
The film provides stunning illustration of many of Foster’s innovative projects including, the Reichstag dome, Masdar City and the Millau Viaduct.
‘A handsome portrait of one of the most esteemed architects of the modern age’
– Daily Telegraph.
Join Sheffield Civic Trust!
If you love Sheffield and enjoy where you live join Sheffield Civic Trust now, become part of the national civic movement and help make our city even better.
Griff Rhys Jones, President of Civic Voice, told BBC Radio Sheffield that, ” Sheffield Civic Trust is a great organisation that is speaking up for Sheffield – people should join it!”
Annual membership is only £10 Individuals or £15 for Families. Renew your membership / join now on line and your membership will be confirmed until 30 June 2012 - please click here.
Alternatively, just pop a cheque in the post (made payable to Sheffield Civic Trust) to our Membership Secretary, Liz Godfrey at Sheffield Civic Trust c/o 22 Endcliffe Glen, Sheffield, S11 8RW.
Join us and you’ll be supporting our activities in promoting: Heritage Open Days; Design Reviews on major projects like Sheffield Hallam University’s Charles Street development; our fabulous Sheffield Design Awards, which confirmed Leopold Square as Sheffield’s favourite new building; and an extensive programme of events throughout the year.
In addition, since Sheffield Civic Trust are active members of Civic Voice, the national organisation for civic societies, our members also qualify for a free day pass to a National Trust property as well as a similar pass to and an English Heritage property.
Portland Works Community Share Issue
On 16 June 2011 a community share issue was launched to save Portland Works, the birthplace of stainless steel manufacturing, a complex of Grade II*listed buildings and a lively hub for the creative industries in Sheffield.
The site is home to a community of over 20 diverse and thriving businesses, including metalworkers, engravers, woodworkers, artists and musicians. With the owner’s plans to develop the site for housing now withdrawn the site has been offered to the community for sale. In order to safeguard its future, an Industrial and Provident Society (IPS), Portland Works Little Sheffield Ltd, has been created and a community share issue confirmed which allows people to support this initiative. Further details can be found athttp://www.portlandworks.co.uk/
Forgotten Spaces Sheffield 2011- Shortlisted Entries Confirmed
Earlier this week, RIBA’s judging panel shortlisted 19 schemes from 60 submitted entries in the Forgotten Spaces Sheffield Competition.
The shortlist includes a range of innovative, far reaching and practical ideas of how to put to use overlooked or ‘forgotten’ sites in our city.
The judging panel included: David Bickle, director of London-based architectural practice Hawkins Brown; Rory Olcayto, deputy editor of the Architects Journal; Miles Price, from British Land; Norman Wienand, head of architecture and planning at Sheffield Hallam University; Emma England, director of RIBA Yorkshire; and Simon Green, director of place at Sheffield City Council.
Speaking about the shortlist for the Sheffield competition, David Bickle said:
‘I was really pleased by the range of ideas we received for the Sheffield competition and I am satisfied the diversity of the entries has been reflected in our shortlist. It was obvious entries had come from a variety of sources – architects, designers, artists – and our final 19 really reflect that creative mix.’
For further details of the shortlisted projects please open this link
Sheffield’s Civic Day Celebrations 2011
Saturday 25 June is England’s first ever Civic Day and over 200 civic societies and trusts will hold events to celebrate their area.
Sheffield Civic Trust is delighted to confirm the following events to mark Civic Day celebrations next week:-
Thursday 23 June 8.30pm at the Showroom – Film screening – ‘How much does your building weigh, Mr Foster?’ – featuring the life and work of Sir Norman Foster (Baron Foster of Thames Bank).
Friday 24 June meet at 1pm at Park Hill – Free illustrated talk and tour of Park Hill with Urban Splash – please click here to sign up for the tour.
Saturday 25 June meet at 11am at the Peace Gardens – Free guided walk between the Peace Gardens and Park Hill via Sheaf Valley Park / Arboretum – please click here to confirm that you are coming along.
Portland Works Launch Community Share Issue
Portland Works
The Portland Works Committee is a group of tenants and supporters, all volunteers, who want to ensure the survival of one of Sheffield’s great buildings by community purchase and social ownership.
Portland Works, built in 1877, is one of the earliest surviving examples of an integrated metal trades complex. It is a Grade II* listed building, which in 1913 became the first place in the world to manufacture stainless steel cutlery – see History.
Remarkably, it still does what it was built for – offering low-cost workshop space to small manufacturing businesses and independent artists and craftspeople. You’ll find here metalworkers, engineers and craftsmen, furniture makers, artists and musicians. They are a cross section of talent following in the footsteps of the ‘Little Mesters’ who made Sheffield famous – see Makers. Sheffield Civic Trust supports the Committee in wanting to protect and develop this community of creative and traditional industries, seeing it as an essential part of the Sheffield economy.
Last year, the landlord wanted to close the Works and convert it into flats, ending 130 years of activity. However, an effective campaign with widespread support was successful in resisting planning application proposals. Consequently, the owner has offered to sell the building to the Portland Works Committee, which has formed a social enterprise, an Industrial Provident Society to buy, manage and conserve Portland Works. From 16 June 2011, the Portland Works Community Share Issue will be launched and you will be able to buy a share in this society.
The Committee believe that you won’t make a lot of money from your shareholding, this is not an investment in the traditional sense. But they do aim to maintain the value of your holding against inflation, through annual interest payments. Meanwhile you’ll have saved this wonderful building and secured jobs, skills and heritage, here in Sheffield.
See Support Portland Works and also the Financial Services Authority’s guide to what an IPS is for more information.
Contact the campaign organisers at info@portlandworks.co.uk
SITraN Building wins RICS Prize!
Well done to Bond Bryan, ISG, Turner & Townsend, SKM, Capita Symonds and the University of Sheffield for the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN), which has just won the RICS Pro Yorkshire Award for Design & Innovation in the region.
SITraN is an essential development in the fight against motor neorone disease and other common neurogenerative disorders. This state-of-the-art facility funded by the University of Sheffield and Patrons of the Sheffield Institute foundation for Motor Neurone Disease is the first of its kind in the world with the necessary critical mass and facilities to exploit the potential of modern neuroscience. The SITraN building provides the facilities to enable a coordinated approach to the development and clinical trialling of new therapies, in a well designed and high quality research facility.
Western Bank Library wins again!
Congratulations to Avanti Architects, Admiral Construction, Turner & Townsend and the University of Sheffield for the refurbishment of Western Bank Library, which has just won the RICS Pro Yorkshire Award for the best Building Conversion in the region.
At the Sheffield Design Awards 2010 the project won best Renovation and Avanti Director John Allan, a former student of the University of Sheffield, collected the award from Tom Bloxham MBE.
Pevsner believed that the Library, which was built between 1955-9, ‘deserves the prize for the best individual twentieth century building in Sheffield.’
The slideshow on Avanti’s website illustrates the successful renovation whilst the image below shows how the library looked prior to the work being commissioned.
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