The National Grid and Sheffield City Council have decided to celebrate one of the city’s Brutalist beauties by bathing it in coloured light and creating an ‘artistic focal point on the City’s ring road’.
The Moore Street substation was built in the 1960s and designed by Sheffield architects Jefferson, Sheard and Partners. It’s a classic concrete monster, always destined to be loved and loathed. The building will be lit by a low-energy floodlighting scheme with a life span of between 20 to 25 years.
At the lighting up ceremony architect Bryan Jefferson, now 82, said the building had remained close to his heart “While many younger buildings have been demolished, I’m very proud to see this is judged worthy of being floodlit”, he said.
Good to see a council take an enlightened approach to modernism.
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