Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Parnell, Steve

Titel

Sheffield architects propose answers to failing city centre

Ist Teil von

• The Architects' Journal, 2014-03

Ort / Verlag

London: Emap Limited

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Quelle

Nexis Uni

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Steve Parnell reports on how the Sheffield Society of Architects took the initiative and organised a charrette to rethink its struggling retail centre Despite many years of procrastination and negotiation, last July's announcement that Hammerson was pulling the plug on developing the Sevenstone retail quarter - Sheffield's version of Liverpool One - came as no surprise to the city's sceptics The recession hit as soon as the area defined for the New Retail Quarter (NRQ) had been emptied of its retail by a blitz of compulsory purchase orders.