Arts Tower, Sheffield

£40.00

Arts Tower, Sheffield

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A modernist landmark, finely detailed in concrete by Spaceplay.

Arts Tower, Sheffield

Name: Arts Tower, Sheffield
Brand: Spaceplay
SKU: MINI_073
Price: 40.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

£40.00

Solid Cast-Concrete Miniature Model
Size: 9.5cm high, 6cm wide, 4.5cm deep
Scale: 1:XX (approx)

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Made to order and shipped within 30 days

Designed and made in my UK studio

Comes gift-boxed for the perfect concrete gift

Express processing available for UK orders

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All Spaceplay models are made to order and are usually made and posted within 30 days.

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Returns

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If your model arrives damaged, faulty, or incorrect, please email me within 14 days of delivery with your order number and photos of the issue. I’ll arrange a free replacement to be made and posted to you.

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Building Information

Location: Western Bank, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Architect: Gollins, Melvin, Ward & Partners
Completed: 1965 (officially opened 1966)
Status: Grade II* listed, in use as a university, housing the School of Architecture

Brief Overview:
The Arts Tower forms the vertical counterpoint to Western Bank Library, both designed by Gollins, Melvin, Ward & Partners as a paired composition for the expanding University of Sheffield campus. Built between 1961 and 1965, the fully glazed tower rises from sixteen exposed concrete columns, its rectilinear form often compared to Miesian skyscrapers like the Seagram Building. Inside, it contains one of the largest surviving paternoster lifts in Europe. English Heritage once described it as one of the most elegant university towers of its time, and it remains a key landmark in Sheffield’s modern architecture.

Making my concrete model

Arts Tower, Sheffield

If you ever rode the paternoster in the Arts Tower, this Arts Tower miniature concrete model will take you straight back. Gollins, Melvin, Ward & Partners completed the University of Sheffield's 20-storey tower in 1965. It's a sheer glass grid rising from a ring of concrete columns, now Grade II* listed and still the tallest university building in the UK. This concrete model of the Sheffield Arts Tower reads as a calm vertical stripe, as the tower does on the skyline, and at 9.5cm it suits a desk, shelf or drawing board. It's made for Sheffield graduates, architecture students, locals and lovers of modernist architecture, and it's a graduation gift or gift for an architect with real meaning. Each miniature concrete building is hand-poured, so its weight and surface are its own.