Park Hill, Sheffield

Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith for Sheffield City Council, 1961. The long concrete frame snaking along the hill above Sheffield station was built around "streets in the sky," open decks wide enough for a milk float, so neighbors from the cleared slums below could still meet at their front doors. The building's height changes with the slope, which keeps the roofline level. Listed at Grade II* in 1998, it went into decline, then a long refurbishment swapped the old brick infill for the bright colored panels seen in this 2021 view. Few buildings show brutalism's fall and revival so clearly.