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cloudscapes and rock formations, for a “tranquil and inspiring transition between rooms,” whereas guestrooms feature artwork showing the surrounding area to reinforce a sense of connection. Steel structures within the furniture design reference Sheffi eld’s industrial past, while rugs depict the Peak District’s topography. Other materials, including timber, mirror, and stone “highlight the diversity of Sheffi eld’s modern character, offering a tactile and visual richness across the interiors.”
Conclusion
This new hotel is a major achievement for HLM, as its fi rst new build hospitality project on this scale, and is also locally important as the fi nal part of the jigsaw in the Steel City’s current masterplan, and its ‘gateway.’ With not only its modern hotel offering but also a range of desirable retail and F&B additions, the project is sitting in a good position to help Sheffi eld’s credentials as a real destination. The project architect comments: “You can’t underestimate the signifi cance that
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a new hotel brings to the city within a regeneration project. New hotels and business bring new people into the heart of the city and that is signifi cant in itself; a hotel can be a key driver in a regeneration project and that’s why it was part of the wider masterplan.” On a sunny day, this really is a perfect spot!”
The project embodies placemaking, “layering of people, places, spaces, and multiple activities all coming together.” It also shows how a hotel can indeed be something that is “greater than the sum of its parts in our city, by being woven into the fabric.”
Studio director at HLM Delia Harmston concluded at the scheme’s outset: “As the economy restarts, our city centres will play a more important role than ever in ensuring the vitality and prosperity of communities throughout the UK. Pivotal to this is making sure that schemes are centred around people and focused on sustainability and wellbeing.” By celebrating and preserving the city’s heritage as well as bringing a new leading hotel group to its centre, the project has success built-in.
DWELLING
The project contains several external spaces which encourage dwell time
PROJECT FACTFILE
Client: Sheffi eld City Council/ Queensberry
Architect, interior design & landscape architect: HLM Architects Project manager, cost consultant & Principal Designer: Turner & Townsend Planning & heritage consultant: Montagu Evans Building control: Assent Building Control
Structural/MEP fi re engineer, fi re engineer: ARUP
Acoustician, resource and waste management consultant: ARUP BREEAM assessor and ecologist: HLM
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