Park Hill, Streets in the Sky
Park Hill is a large housing estate on a hill in Sheffield, in the north of England, built between 1957 and 1961 to designs by Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith. Its defining feature is its "streets in the sky": elevated decks about 3 meters wide, meant to recreate in a high-rise the neighborliness of the alleys between old terraced houses. The decks run unbroken from block to block and were once wide enough for small milk floats to drive along. From the 1980s the estate declined and became notorious, but in 1998 it was listed at Grade II* (it is said to be the largest listed building in Europe), and since 2009 it has been undergoing phased renovation. The long decks, with the same railings and openings repeating endlessly, feel indoors even though they are outside: streets suspended in midair, cut off from the ground. People still live here, so please be careful not to point your camera at homes or residents.
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Nearby liminal spaces
- Preston Bus Station (92 km)
- Pennine Tower, Lancaster Services (107 km)
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