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The building was granted Grade II listed status by English Heritage in September 2013, with the building being described as a "massive and uncompromising bunker which by its plainness and fully-displayed structure expresses a highly appropriate impression of enormous energy confined and controlled
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describes it as "a shocking paroxysm of a building, an explosion in reinforced concrete, a bunker built with an aesthete's attention to detail, a building which is genuinely Brutalist in both senses of the term."
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electrical substation
Sheffield
England
Jefferson Sheard
Brutalist architecture
Owen Hatherley
Paul Scriven
Sheffield City Council
Sheffield
Yale University Press
ISBN
0300105851
Hatherley, Owen
A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain
Verso Books
"Love it or hate it, the city has a bright new beacon"
Sheffield Telegraph
Historic England
"Moore Street Electricity Substation (1415383)"
National Heritage List for England
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Sheffield
Central Library
City Hall
Cutlers' Hall
Jessop Hospital
National Union of Mineworkers headquarters

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