"To change Sheffield for the better, the answer might lie in anger and civic action"

Sheffield is one of the UK's most important cities for modern architecture, says Owen Hatherley, and we need to take action to stop it being destroyed.The Jury's Inn is the sort of building that Sheffield has been producing a lot of since the 1990s. Mediocre, over-scaled, it could have been built absolutely anywhere in the UK at any time since 1997. So imagine my surprise to find inside scuzzy paintings of what the city used to look like. In the toilet was a framed painting, in a vaguely punky f