From Dream to Reality: Harmony Works at Canada House Sheffield
Find out how the School of Architecture and Landscape is helping to turn a landmark heritage building in Sheffield into a centre for children and young people’s music.
This film is set at Canada House, the future home of Harmony Works - a new music performance and education venue for children and young people in Sheffield and the South Yorkshire region. Harmony Works is a unique landmark project to repurpose an empty Grade II* listed heritage building in the city centre to provide a public cafe, performance spaces and rehearsal rooms. Beyond the Harmony Works charity, it will also be a new home for brass bands, choirs and community music groups. It is being designed to offer a welcoming and accessible building for as diverse an audience as possible.
Harmony Works was kickstarted by a student 'Live Project' in 2017, turning the project, according to Harmony Works Director, Emily Pieters, "from a dream to a reality". Since then the School of Architecture and Landscape have continued to work with Harmony Works on design development and public engagement events.
This film features a 'pop-up urban room' in Canada House curated by Live Works, the School of Architecture and Landscape's project office. It showcases our staff and students engaging the public on plans for the building and the wider regeneration of Castlegate, as part of Heritage Open Days and the Castlegate Festival in September 2025.
Credits
- Project Lead: Carolyn Butterworth (Director at Live Works and Senior University Teacher in Architecture at the University of Sheffield)
- Project Lead: Charlie Young (Project Assistant at Live Works)
- Project Lead: Leo Care (Co-Director at Live Works and School of Architecture and Landscape Student Experience Lead at the University of Sheffield)
- Interviewee: Emily Pieters (Project Director at Harmony Works)
- Interviewee: Anna Elcock (MArch student at the University of Sheffield)
- Interviewee: Dabinn Kim (BA student at the University of Sheffield)
- Videography: Mohammed Khizr (Khizr Studio)