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Liverpool Ghost Streets 5: The Floating City
A generation ago, our Council leaders had a bright idea. They wanted us to never make contact with the ground again. But we weren’t promised jetpacks, just dimly lit corridors in the sky. Take a closer...
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Filthy Shades of Grey
I scowl with frustration as the phone rings and a voice rasps into my ear; “Do you feel dirty, SevenStreets?” I swallow nervously. My cheeks heat up with globes of angry little sweatballs. And my face...
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Whole Lotta Cladding Going On
Have you noticed the city’s love affair with tonal cladding? No? Just us then. Well let us tell you, it’s bloody everywhere. Jenga strips of coloured steel, Tetris-ing their way down the sides of new...
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All This Useless Beauty?
Somewhere deep in New Mexico, a desert full of hollows forms the Very Large Array telescope. Acres of discrete dishes. Insignificant alone. Game changing together. Working as one, the dishes can do...
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Liverpool: City of Dreaming Spires
If you have problems with Mann Island, it’s sobering to realise that, for every completed new build in our city, hundreds never make it past the CAD models of an architect’s computer. Some get...
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Arcade Fire: Save India Buildings
It’s one of Liverpool’s most beautiful buildings – the equivalent of anything you’d find in New York or Chicago – and it recently doubled for some impressive Soviet HQ in the next Jack Ryan caper –...
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Deja View: Seven Liverpool-alike Buildings
The world in one city? You better believe it. For our legion of tourists, a walk around the city must be a most disconcerting experience. Home, with its familiar curves and crevices, must seem...
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Inspiring Places: George’s Dock Building
My favourite Liverpool building is an outdoor sculpture gallery in the heart of the city. It’s home to some of the our best examples of 20th century sculpture and is, in itself, an architectural...
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New Life For Old Buildings
A couple of months ago, we came to the somewhat alarming conclusion that the majority of Liverpool’s UNESCO protected ‘maritime mercantile maritime mercantile City’ (protected as an example of a major...
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Love Architecture Festival
Anything that gives us the chance to bathe in the beauty Of Time And The City on the big screen is OK by us. So roll on this year’s Love Architecture Festival. The ten day celebration of the built form...
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RIBA Shortlist Announced: Liverpool features 8 times
Hot on the heels of the Everyman’s deserved victory last year, RIBA has revealed the shortlisted fifteen new regional projects in the running for next year’s Stirling Prize. Is there another...
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