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Park Hill Plinths is an ambitious new permanent site-specific public sculpture for the interior landscape of the iconic Brutalist Grade 2* Park Hill estate in Sheffield, the largest listed structure in Europe. The vast interior landscape of Park Hill was transformed to become an inner-city drive-through sculpture park for Sheffield.

The inaugural and only permanent work set in the landscape, the site-specific installation features a series of five disc-shaped concrete plinth bases positioned at various intervals across the 3.5-acre site. The 3.18 metre diameter of each plinth directly refers to the basic unitary grid plan of the surrounding Park Hill flats. Using the same concrete mix originally used for the buildings and with their heights based on the estate’s incremental plateaus, the plinths are strongly linked both to the typography and to the material reality of the site.

The Park Hill Plinths installation serves to announce the arrival of a new sculpture park, Sculpture Park Hill, setting the scene for a planned new art museum.