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	Name: Roger Watkin Building: Former national centre for popular music Location: Sheffield What is your relationship to this building?: I am a passer-by Why do you love this building?: It's newish yet its shape and materials hark back to the industrial highs in the development of the city. Its metal and glass is unlike what the last forty or fifty years have led us to expect of this combination of materials. It hugs a small site yet its shape suggests space and size. Its outline of curves and subdued gleaming metal is friendly and inviting - you feel it is ready to accept whomever walks in. It is now being adapted for another user but is likely to perform some of the functions for which it was first designed. Its scale is well matched to its surroundings even while it manages to be firmly different from the nearby buildings. Its architect plainly had vision to create a building that is unlike others but carries with it no sense of hubris.

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