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Do you have a passion for a particular building in South Yorkshire? Tell us why...

António
What me worry?:) :) Preserving masterpieces, respecting historical buildings, maintaining useful existing real-estate is just a mere common-sense attitude. Another compeletly different chapter concerns the conception design of the present buildings, most of them obsolete today, let alone a near future. Let's discuss sensible matters that should bend the trend to an up-to-date habitat. (meaning smallest carbon footprint possible in an inviting atmosphere) We are just starting this challenge, as new data arrives everyday...

Rachel
I have concluded that I am seriously out of touch with my visceral self. I struggled to come up with any Sheffield building I would want to be photographed next to, let alone lick. It is a sad fact of Sheffield life that the vast majority of modern architecture in our city is dull and relatively cheap looking, or else 'okay' at best. Most of the worthy old stuff is isolated, or surrounded by modern disasters, or carved up by poor planning for roads, and therefore appears somewhat diminished. Much of the high concept and interesting stuff proved miserable to live and work in, the civic bits and bobs lack cohesion, and the arts tower in particular doesn't benefit at all from having the appreciative 'Gareth' stuck to it in a soft porn kind of way ......but hey, ....at least we have fantastic parks in which to escape from it all. I admit that I quite like the water cooling towers by Meadowhall ....do they count as architecture in some sort of post modern brutalist industrial statement, kind of a way? But I still value the surface of my tongue too much to lick them. Infact, this whole tragic licking concept pretty much sums up how seriously we can take architecture in Sheffield. Nice one HLM, I've allowed you to waste 10 minutes of my life on your ridiculous and sadly not all that funny or thought provoking 'licking' nonsense, when I could have been using the time for something more productive, like putting the washing in, or perhaps licking the washing... or maybe even the machine .....infact, now you've got me thinking about it, the visceral possibilities are actually endless, and I'm off to make a start on the fabric conditioner.

Natalie Freeman
The sky edge view blocks are fantastic. I don't want them to be pulled down!

Dai
Why on earth would you want to lick a building? In Sheffield? It's just pointless and weird. Perhaps local architects should spend more time actually coming up with buildings that are worth looking at instead of this sort of nonsense. Are the transport interchange going to ask to lick buses next?

Fraser
Another example of how the sorry state of Sheffield's depressing architecture sends people insane.

ROSS WEBSTER
INSTEAD of kissing or licking our own building, we can renew and safe gaurd our own tradional buildings.

Tony Gill
Is it hygenic to lick buildings?

Ronnie Moore
Surely licking a rabied dog would be safer than licking a building in sheffield.

Andy
Glad to see Gareth's making every effort to transform the image of students to one of hard working, hilarious characters. He certainly looks one crazy guy!