The Park Hill estate in Sheffield completed in 1961 was initially famous for it’s radical vision: streets in the sky, spacious duplex apartments, wonderful views, district heating, modular construction systems. This positive vision later became overshadowed and tarred by the disintegration of the estate’s public realm and the spread of anti-social behaviour.
We love Park Hill. It just needs to be Remade in Sheffield. A piece of graffiti sprayed onto a concrete bridge 30 metres off the ground proclaims love you will you marry me? This simple, romantic, emotional daring plea has become a symbol of the refurbishment.
Working for Urban Splash and Sheffield City Council and in collaboration with Hawkins Brown, our masterplan gained planning in July 2007 and having been retained by the client to detail phase one, we are now on site with 300 homes and commercial units, due to open late 2011.
Our work was Commended in the Mail on Sunday, British Homes Awards 2008 as Housing Project of the Year and Park Hill won the AJ Retrofit Awards 2010 Future Project Award.
