| 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
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