STREETS IN THE SKY | BILL STEPHENSON
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Portraits of the Last Residents at Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield. 1988
Built on one of Sheffield’s reputed seven hills, the monumental, high rise, social housing development at Hyde Park was opened in 1966. ‘Streets in the Sky’ was a term derived from the wide open decks that defined this style of brutalist architecture.
My purpose was to photograph and record the last community of social housing tenants living at Hyde Park flats in 1988, before they were vacated during 1989-90 to provide accommodation for competitors at the 1991 World Student Games.
Hyde Park was finally demolished between 1992-3, a landmark building that had dominated Sheffield’s skyline for over twenty years.
Further information about the construction of Hyde Park and my work can be found here
‘Streets in the Sky’ was published in 2023 by Revelations 23 Press and includes an essay by Johny Pitts. Available here
Portraits of the Last Residents at Hyde Park Flats, Sheffield. 1988
Built on one of Sheffield’s reputed seven hills, the monumental, high rise, social housing development at Hyde Park was opened in 1966. ‘Streets in the Sky’ was a term derived from the wide open decks that defined this style of brutalist architecture.
My purpose was to photograph and record the last community of social housing tenants living at Hyde Park flats in 1988, before they were vacated during 1989-90 to provide accommodation for competitors at the 1991 World Student Games.
Hyde Park was finally demolished between 1992-3, a landmark building that had dominated Sheffield’s skyline for over twenty years.
Further information about the construction of Hyde Park and my work can be found here
‘Streets in the Sky’ was published in 2023 by Revelations 23 Press and includes an essay by Johny Pitts. Available here