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You are in: South Yorkshire > Places > Places features > The Arts Tower A familiar view from Hicks bus stop Sheffield University's 78m-tall Arts Tower has been inhabited since 1965 and has a rare ...
A 1960s tower is to be transformed from one of sheffield’s worst environmental performers into its best by near-invisible facade engineering If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, modernist ...
Student activists have taken over Sheffield University's Arts Tower in a protest against the institution's links to the arms trade.
Students have ended their Arts Tower occupation after two weeks but rent strike protests in Sheffield are continuing.
It’s 11 years since HLM Architects reclad and remodelled the glass curtain-walled block that is the University of Sheffield’s Arts Tower. At 78m, the iconic tower is still the tallest university ...
If there’s a single thread running through this year’s Sheffield School of Architecture degree show, it is a restless questioning of architecture’s agency towards society, says Luke Neve ...
Arts Tower, Sheffield University Whether you think it is an eyesore or an architectural gem, one thing people do agree on is that the Arts Tower is one of Sheffield’s premier landmarks.
We are experiencing problems with the existing terrazzo stone paving at the entrance to the Arts Tower. The original paving installed in the 1960s is at end of life and has become cracked and has ...
They are some of Sheffield’s most recognisable landmarks, from towering apartment blocks to a retail behemoth.
Sheffield Strikes Back, a newly formed broad left group of Sheffield students, have occupied the Arts Tower – the tallest university building in the United Kingdom.
The Sheffield Confucius Institute is delighted to announce that we will facilitate a visiting Kunqu opera troupe from Peking University to stage a performance at the University Arts Tower.
Sheffield is home to one of only two paternoster lifts in the UK. The unusual lift, in the University of Sheffield Arts Tower, has no doors and moves continuously without stopping at floor levels.