Charles Street Car Park
Sheffield
The Charles Street car park acts as a large lantern at an urban scale. It contains 520 parking spaces over ten floors with retail space at ground level.
The abstract and animated surface of its facade is composed of identical angled panels that are rotated randomly in four orientations. Each panel is made up of a single folded sheet of aluminium, painted green on the inside. Diurnal patterns of light and shade bring this functional building to life both internally and externally.
team
Client
CTP St James Ltd
Structural Engineer
Capita Symonds Structures
Services Engineer
Ernest Griffiths and Sons
Quantity Surveyor
Tweeds
Contractor
JF Finnegan Ltd
Project Manager
Gardiner and Theobald (Sheffield)
Cladding Consultant
Cladtech Associates
Fire Engineer
Arup Fire (Leeds)
Transport Engineer
Arup Transport(Leeds)
Photography
Dennis Gilbert/VIEW
data
Completion date
2008
Location
Charles Street
St Paul's
Sheffield
RIBA Award
2009
RIBA White Rose Award
2009
Sheffield Design Awards
Citizen's Award for Best Building
2009