Infamous Architecture - Hyde Park flats on the Park Hill Housing Estate in Sheffield
The infamous Park Hill Estate, Sheffield - built between 1957 and 1961 as a Utopian "City in the Sky" - now Grade II listed. A collection of 1970s-80s cars in the foreground. Note the old church dwarfed by the modern blocks.
Sheffield Park Hill Estate history
"Park Hill is one of the seven hills on which Sheffield is built. It is south of the River Don, and to the east of the River Sheaf. The estate is on steeply rising land the lower slopes, it is upwind of the former heavily polluting industrial areas of the Don valley.
The concept of the flats was described as streets in the sky. There were four street decks, wide enough for milk floats, with large numbers of front doors opening onto them. This was a key concept of the design. Each deck of the structure, except the top one, has direct access to ground level at some point on the sloping site.
The 995 Park Hill flats and maisonettes, 4 pubs and 31 shops were built in 4 ranges linked by bridges across the upper decks. The ranges were canted at obtuse angles to maximise the panoramic views across the city and the southern Pennines.
Construction of the flats was of an exposed concrete frame with a progression of purple, terracotta, light red and cream brick curtain walling. However, as a result of weathering and soot-staining from passing trains, few people realised this and assumed the building to be constructed entirely from concrete."
More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Hill,_Sheffield
Taken using a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera.
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Infamous Architecture - Hyde Park flats on the Park Hill Housing Estate in Sheffield
The infamous Park Hill Estate, Sheffield - built between 1957 and 1961 as a Utopian "City in the Sky" - now Grade II listed. A collection of 1970s-80s cars in the foreground. Note the old church dwarfed by the modern blocks.
Sheffield Park Hill Estate history
"Park Hill is one of the seven hills on which Sheffield is built. It is south of the River Don, and to the east of the River Sheaf. The estate is on steeply rising land the lower slopes, it is upwind of the former heavily polluting industrial areas of the Don valley.
The concept of the flats was described as streets in the sky. There were four street decks, wide enough for milk floats, with large numbers of front doors opening onto them. This was a key concept of the design. Each deck of the structure, except the top one, has direct access to ground level at some point on the sloping site.
The 995 Park Hill flats and maisonettes, 4 pubs and 31 shops were built in 4 ranges linked by bridges across the upper decks. The ranges were canted at obtuse angles to maximise the panoramic views across the city and the southern Pennines.
Construction of the flats was of an exposed concrete frame with a progression of purple, terracotta, light red and cream brick curtain walling. However, as a result of weathering and soot-staining from passing trains, few people realised this and assumed the building to be constructed entirely from concrete."
More information here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Hill,_Sheffield
Taken using a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera.
You can see a random selection of my photos here at Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/9815422@N06/random/
And I'm gradually posting a chosen selection to my Instagram account: www.instagram.com/street.watcher/?hl=en