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Arts Tower

Arts Tower
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About Arts Tower

The Arts Tower is a building at 12 Bolsover Street in Sheffield, England, belonging to the University of Sheffield and which opened in 1965. A spokesperson for English Heritage described it as "the most elegant university tower block in Britain of its period". At 78 m (256 ft) tall, it is the second-tallest building in the city, after the 101 m (331 ft) St Paul's Tower on Arundel Gate, which was topped out in 2009. Mitchell Construction a British civil engineering firm, built the Arts Tower. Photographs from their topping out ceremony in October 1964 help to document a different era in UK working conditions.

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Have you heard of Paternoster Lifts? They have one in the Arts Tower in Sheffield University. It's basically two lift shafts open to you without a door, then there's a chain of compartments, which one is always going up and one is always going down, right?

from 66: No Such Thing As A Robotic Margaret Atwood, 2015-06-19 at 00:28:32 · read transcript

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