
The Prickly Pear: The National Centre For Popular Music in Sheffield
The Distance Between an Idea and its Fruition at The National Centre for Popular Music, Sheffield. All major construction projects start with an idea that is driven by one person or a collection of like minds. Tim Strickland’s idea for The National Centre for Popular Music (NCPM) was enthusiastically received by a steering group at Sheffield City Council looking for a flagship addition for a new Cultural Industries Quarter (CIQ) planned to rejuvenate a rundown area of the cit