Cheesegrater, Sheffield

 


The Building

Liked by many. Hated by many. The Q-Park, Charles Street, opened in 2008, and the extraordinary steel cladding merited the ‘Cheesegrater’ name. The external envelope, painted green on the inside, was each manufactured from a single sheet of folded aluminium, cut to an angle on two sides, and hung in four different orientations, providing natural ventilation. By day, a varied monochromatic pattern of light and dark is achieved over each of the elevations, with each panel giving a different light reflectance from its surface. 

Awards: RIBA National Award 2009, RIBA Regional Award 2009, RIBA White Rose Award 2009, Sheffield Design Awards Citizen's Award for Best Building 2009

The ten-storey car park was designed by architects Allies and Morrison, and constructed by Sheffield-based J.F. Finnegan  as part of the Heart of the City project, which also included the Peace Gardens, Winter Garden and Millennium Gallery.

The Photograph

I've had a few attempts at this building during previous visits to Sheffield, but it is in a fairly built up area within the city, which doesn't allow much scope for getting a good viewpoint. This time I was using the 15mm Shift lens which allowed me to capture the whole building.

I have chosen to present this building with one corner prominently displayed and have applied gradients to enhance this. 

Taken with a Laowa 15mm f/4.5 Shift lens on Sony A7RII

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