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Workstation, Sheffield

The Workstation is one of the UK’s largest Creative Industry Business Centres, housing over 70 companies and organisations.  Opening in 1993 in a vast, former Kennings car showroom and garage, the project pioneered a type of workspace development that is now becoming fairly commonplace across Europe and beyond.  The full development package in the Workstation building includes a Workplace Nursery & Crèche, the adjoining Showroom Cinema and Showroom Café & Bar, and a wide range of conferencing and event facilities. The Workstation and Showroom took over ten years to complete, and was developed in phases as funding was secured, including Urban Programme, ERDF, English Partnerships, Foundation for Sports and the Arts, Ace Arts Lottery, and substantial commercial bank loan finance.  The project is hugely successful in developing an internal cross-subsidy economy, where the commercial Workstation business now covenants substantial profits in support of the cinema and education activities of the overall scheme, out-stripping all public revenue funding combined.

 

Development Director:
Matthew Conduit (ci:p)
1991 -2000

Architects:
Allen Tod Architecture (Workstation)
Tatlow Stancer Architects (Showroom)

http://www.workstation.org.uk

http://www.showroom.org.uk

 

  • Exterior
  • Exterior circa 1991
  • Exterior, Showroom Cinema
  • Interior mezzanine
  • Interior, cinema 3
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