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Empty Quarter Action Project

The Empty Quarter Action Project is run by Sheffield University Architecture Students working with Sheffield City Council and Rreef looking for innovative and creative interim uses for the shops, buildings and streets in Sheffield's 'empty quarter.'

The regeneration of a large area of the city centre has stalled due to the credit crunch, leaving many shops empty. Sevenstone, the new retail quarter, and the new markets on the Moor have been put on hold until the economy improves. The city council hope that development will start again by the end of 2011 but until then we are faced with rows of dilapidated shops and empty streets, a ghost town, right in the heart of Sheffield.

In the next few weeks we aim to produce a strategic report based on public consultation, research and creative thinking that will provide Sheffield City Council with ideas, plans and strategies that range from the pragmatic to the downright utopian.

If you have arrived here on a recommendation or through personal interest, we invite you to contribute to the ongoing discussions.

If you are a member of an arts' oragnisation, community group, business forum, if you work in the city centre, if you own or manage property in the city centre, if you have a start-up business or run a charity, if you run workshops for children or adults, get in touch. We need your input.

Thursday, 22 October 2009

Creative use of Scaffolding

Copenhagen
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Wednesday, 21 October 2009

Cuckoo Clock

It seems someone beat us to the Cuckoo Clock Idea ^_^
NTV (Nippon Television) Broadcasting Building, Tokyo.
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Wednesday, 14 October 2009

Hands from above

Hand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

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Monday, 12 October 2009

Public Ideas Workshop!


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Snake on a building

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COMBO

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Wall painted animations by Blu

The links below are videos of animations painted onto the sides of old buildings. (I tried to embed the videos but it didnt work, they are well worth a look though)

Very impressive...

COMBO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uad17d5hR5s&feature=player_embedded

MUTO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuGaqLT-gO4
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