Now that Sheffield's unique cooling towers are gone, the minority of people who thought they were a blot on the landscape must think the east side of the city looks great now.
To me it has lost the only interesting, striking and unusual architectural feature it had going for it, not to mention the historical record.
When the Winter Garden was built I was hopeful for Sheffield. It really was a modern but beautiful addi
tion to the city centre that was striking and different to that in any other city. But it almost may as well not have been built since it has been hidden by more of the standard modern city boxes. With the Winter Garden hidden and now with the towers gone, Sheffield is just like any other 'me too' city, all trying to build the biggest boxes. And public feeling counts for little.
Even industrial buildings need not be just massive boring units.
Sheffield's cooling towers had been crafted with different architectural designs on the top and had reinvented themselves as massive works of art.
In my opinion we shouldn't need to think up a £500,000 monument to wasting money, trying to emulate the irreplaceable icon of the cooling towers that were a part of Sheffield.
If we really can't have architecturally beautiful buildings any more for whatever reason, why not at least environmentally sound: with green roofs, wind turbines, solar panels and energy efficiency being incorporated first and foremost into every design.
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