status: vision
height: 150m
usage: observation tower
Architect: bond bryan architects
scheduled date: 2004

* Bond Bryan concieved this as part of a plan for a casino development around Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield.

http://www.skyscrapernews.com/images/pics/699SheffieldPinnacle_pic2.jpg

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This would be so cool, it looks abit like the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth harbour (below).

http://www.spinnakertower.co.uk/images/cms/side-image/experience_side.jpg

Great! But wouldn't it be better suited to the city centre?

Tacky and pointless. Sorry.

I can't see the point in a viewing tower in a city with so many hills which provide fantastic views of the city.

I can't understand how it can be commercially viable anyway.

thats probably why it wasnt built.

I can't see the point in a viewing tower in a city with so many hills which provide fantastic views of the city.

Ahhhhhh..... but who's keeping an eye on the people on the hills?

I can't see the point in a viewing tower in a city with so many hills which provide fantastic views of the city.

I can't understand how it can be commercially viable anyway.

Yeah it does seem pretty pointless, especially as we're now getting cable cars :lol:

This was an early idea envisaged as part of the Don Valley Sun casino project. It was intended to provide a marker for the project that could be seen for miles, particularly from the M1, and provide a tourist attraction with an observation deck and restaurant at the top. It was also conceived as a project encompassed in a much larger redevelopment of the entire Attercliffe area which included a gay village and amusement park amongst its many attarctions. Entitled "The Village" this is something that will take many years to develop, if in fact it gets built at all.

A gay village? What would residents be known as - the village people? :-)

If they were to build something like this i think it would look great on the site of waitrose at the end of ecceshall road :-)

sheffield really NEEDS a gay village :righton:

sheffield really NEEDS a gay village :righton:

They just got planing permission for it, didnt you see ? Accessable by cable car........wait hang on..........oh thats the ski village :)