Round Foundry is part of a plan to redevelop Holbeck
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A building in Leeds that started life as a factory to make engines driven by steam has won the city's top architectural award.
The 200-year-old Round Foundry in Holbeck has been converted into a mixture of flats, offices, bars and restaurants.
It was given the top prize in the Leeds Architecture Awards for 2004 in a ceremony at the Royal Armouries.
Leeds University's Parkinson Building won an award for its exterior lighting.
Buildings derelict
Round Foundry was built to meet the demand for machines to make a variety of goods at a time when Leeds was rapidly developing into a major industrial city.
But by the end of the last century the buildings were derelict.
It was brought back to life by developers CTP St James and architects Building Design Partnership (BDP) as part of a larger project to regeneration Holbeck, an area separated from the centre of Leeds by railway lines and the canal.
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