Tenants of the new Electric Works block in Sheffield are offering their staff a shortcut from the top of the four-storey building to the ground floor: a helter-skelter. The 85ft (26m) slide cuts the journey to seven seconds.

 

Toby Hyam, managing director of Creative Space Management, which runs the building, said: “Electric Works will be the first office building in the UK to have a permanent helter-skelter for the use of those who work there. It will also be available for business visitors and for conference visitors, but it will not be open to the general public.

 

“Companies and the people working here feel that the helter-skelter reflects their approach to work, where the division between work and play is blurred and where the risk, imagination and creativity that characterises their work is going to be reflected in their surroundings.”

 

The building, the second of five that will form the Digital Campus in Sheffield, will open next week. It is intended for companies in the creative and digital sectors and will provide workspace for up to 400 people.

 

The helter-skelter was designed and built by Wiegandslide, the German company that built the slides on display recently at Tate Modern in London.

 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5811667.ece

:cheesy:!!

OH MY GOD WANT.

 

Seriously, that is flat-out no-words-for-it awesome. You have to admit it.