Town’s unique market proves design draw for students

A GROUP of students from Nottingham Trent University were in Huddersfield yesterday to see an unusual example of 20th century architecture.
By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Feb 2011, 11:14 BST

Queensgate Market in the town has 21 roof structures known as “asymmetric hyperbolic paraboloid shells” and claims to have the world’s largest ceramic sculpture.

Yesterday, 100 students from the Nottingham university visited the building, which is Grade ll listed.

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The visit was organised as a result of a study by a postgraduate researcher at Huddersfield University, Christopher Marsden, the co-ordinator of Huddersfield Gem, which campaigns for the market.

Mr Marsden presented his paper on the engineering and building of the market’s roof at the International Association for Shell and Spatial Structures Symposium in Mexico in 2008.

Among the delegates from around the world was Dr Marisela Mendoza, who is a senior lecturer at the School of Art, Design and the Built Environment at Nottingham Trent University.

Dr Mendoza was amazed at the building’s design and yesterday brought her students to admire its beauty.

Huddersfield Gem’s aims include the study, promotion and ensuring the future of the market building.

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