Huddersfield Queensgate Market

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Four decades after its opening, later the unique Queensgate Market Hall, with its 187 market stalls and 27 shops, still remains popular with shoppers.
In 2003, the future of the market was threatened by redevelopment plans that could have seen it demolished.
But the iconic building was saved and listed grade II in 2005.
A community group, Huddersfield Gem, was set up to ensure the future of the Princess Alexandra Walk market hall.
Huddersfield Gem co-founder, Adrian Evans, who is an architect and senior lecturer at Huddersfield University, said: “Queensgate Market was designed and built with confidence using a spectacular combination of architecture, engineering and art
“It has served the town well and has been our own architectural gem.
“It is an exemplar of retail design. It is credit to the designers, builders and engineers that their work was listed after just 35 years.”
The huge soot-stained former Market Hall towered over King Street and The Shambles for many, many years.
But the former Huddersfield Borough Council decided in the 1960s that it had to go and commissioned a replacement.
Building began on Queensgate market in 1968 and it was officially opened on April 6, 1970.
The old 1880 Gothic Huddersfield Market Hall had to be demolished to make way for the daring J Seymour Harris Partnership and Leonard and Partners design.
The building is immediately recognisable by its distinctive roof - 21 white freestanding ‘hyperbolic paraboloid’ shells that allow light to flood into the market hall below.
Inside, the roof sections of the hall appear to float above the ceiling.
And on the outside, the exterior wall seen from the ring road features abstract art panels.
Adrian said: “At the time of its design, Queensgate Market drew on truly international design creativity, thinking and expertise.
“Today, 40 years on, it remains a work of international standing and importance.
Traders are set to be moved out of Queensgate Market and housed in converted shipping containers and empty shops in a £1.6 million move proposed by Kirklees Council.
The Queensgate Market building is earmarked as the new venue for Huddersfield Library and Art Gallery as part of the £210 million Cultural Heart regeneration.
The council wants to relocate traders in August this year so work can begin.
Long-term, the plan is to merge the indoor and outdoor markets and create a new Huddersfield Market, based around food and events, on the current outdoor market site.
However, with much disruption expected at that end of town due to the electrification of the railway line and internal modernisation of Huddersfield Railway Station, a temporary move for the Queensgate traders is expected to last at least three years.

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