Sheffield Skyscraper

Went into town today. I had an eye test and it seemed that all of a sudden my short sightedness has worsened , but also I am now long sighted too! How did that happen.....
I did not like the optician who saw me, his demeanour seemed to alter as soon as I admitted to wearing my contact lenses for too many days at a time, after that I seemed to be a lost cause in his eyes! I think I will be getting a second opinion!

As I was in town, I took advantage of the many photo opportunities and today for some reason I seemed to get a lot of photos to choose from for my blip today. I plumped with this one as I found that I could do better with most of the others on another day. However I liked this view of a tower of flats from the side. I don't often walk from this viewpoint, so I quite liked the different perspective on it.

St Paul's Tower (also called the City Lofts Tower or the Conran Tower) and St Paul's View, consists of a 32 storey tower called St Paul's Tower, which is primarily faced with glass, along with a 9 storey block called St Paul's View, which is primarily faced with glass, sandstone and bronze. They are linked at the bottom by one floor of retail space and a roof terrace atop the retail building.

It fronts onto two new squares, Millennium Square and St Paul's Place, part of a new bar and restaurant district. The towers and associated squares form part of the St Paul's Place development, which also includes three other office blocks, a multi-storey car park and a casino, and faces onto Hallam Square, less than 100 metres (330 ft) from Sheffield railway station. They represent just one element of the wider regeneration of the area around Sheffield Town Hall, known as the Heart of the City Project.

The tower became the tallest building in Sheffield when completed in August 2010, at 101 metres (331 ft), overtaking the Arts Tower by a significant margin. The tower and its smaller neighbour provides private apartments for city centre living, with retail on the ground-floor of the tower, facing Arundel Gate and restaurants on the upper-ground floor of St Paul's View, facing St Paul's Place.