Laurie Wilson – Project 365

Cutting Edge Sculpture

A day out in Sheffield, well actually a pub crawl with the lads!

We started at Sheffield station which has a new pub/bar called the Sheffield Tap.

This week’s theme is ‘wide’ so I took the opportunity to capture the Cutting Edge Sculpture outside the station in Sheaf Square

Cutting Edge Sculpture

• Sheffield design team, Si Applied and international glass artist Keiko Mukaide collaborated in the development of the sculpture.

• The sculpture is 90 metres long, and 5 metres high at the highest point.

• The stainless steel was provided by Outokumpu of Brightside Sheffield, and the structure was manufactured by Jordans of Bristol.

• The external material is 4mm thick, with a mirror polish on one side of the sculpture and a matt/ satin finish on the other.

• The sculpture was constructed in eight pieces over a six month period, it was delivered to the site in four deliveries.

• The materials required to make the external structure weigh approximately 29 tonnes, and the internal frame probably weighs as much. Therefore the whole sculpture weighs approximately 60 tonnes!

Sheffield Tap

I couldn’t miss the opportunity to post a photograph of the Sheffield Tap.

Sheffield Tap

Station pubs can be pretty miserable places.  It doesn’t have to be like that…..  If anywhere can prove the case in favour of the station pub, you’d suspect, it must be Sheffield, our city has a real ale culture that’s arguably unmatched anywhere in England.

A long, polished bar offers eight Thornbridge ales with a load of other stuff like proper lager and proper cider, and behind it a row of fridges is packed with dozens and dozens of varieties of Belgian beers.

A graceful ceiling arches high above. The walls are lined with tiles. Brass fittings gleam sumptuously. In an open fireplace, no fire, but it is summer!  It has been so successful that they allegedly paid off the borrowings for the £200,000 restoration in three months.