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    Quote Originally Posted by kevin View Post
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    Quote Originally Posted by Johnny Robbo View Post
    Interesting to see that the new Ferries building has since won the "Carbuncle" Award:

    BBC News - 28 August 2009

    Ferry terminal's Carbuncle award


    The flagship ?10.5m ferry terminal at Liverpool's Pier Head has won the "Carbuncle Cup" which is awarded to Britain's worst new building.

    Three judges for the Building Design (BD) magazine said the Merseytravel building was "a shining example of bad architecture and bad planning".

    A spokesman for Merseytravel defended the building saying it had "tremendous community support".

    "This is only the view of two journalists and an architect," he said.

    The building incorporates ferry operations, a Beatles museum and a rooftop restaurant. It was designed by Belfast-based Hamilton architects.

    The terminal is cantilevered on two sides and clad in limestone to complement the new Liverpool Museum next door.

    The judges added: "It is such an amazing site, directly in front of the Three Graces, but the architects seem barely to have noticed.

    "It is like letting a bad second-year student build next to St Peter's.

    "The architect evidently once looked at a Zaha building in a magazine. It is essentially a horrible sectional idea that has been extruded like a stick of rock."

    Judges were split between the Liverpool waterside building and a structure in Nottingham - both they said were appalling - but in the end they decided that "given the damage inflicted by the ferry terminal on what is a UNESCO world heritage site" it was the more worthy recipient.

    Another of Liverpool's buildings - Cesar Pelli's One Park West - was shortlisted for the Cup.

    The final three buildings that were nominated were: Make's Amenity building for Nottingham University, Hamilton Architects' Ferry Terminal in Liverpool and Queen Margaret University campus, Aberdeen, by Dyer Associates.

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    Well, I'm no architect but I told you so!

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    The ferry terminal deserves it. Hope they give on to that awful mueseum.

    Crap new buildings like this is why i got outside of the pool alot to photo lately, too boring to photograph alot of in Liverpool.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Max View Post
    The ferry terminal deserves it. Hope they give on to that awful mueseum.

    Crap new buildings like this is why i got outside of the pool .
    I agree Max. I am all for progress but not to sheer ugliness.

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    This is the first time i've seen a picture of this terminal , it's shockingly ugly and reminds me of a take away box for some reason
    It also looks moderan and old at the same time , kind of like pictures i've seen of German buildings in the 80's.

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    I'm only into architecture and landscapes so it is annoying for me idea wise sometimes, i only got typical ideas like city views from the cathedral or Everton Brow or going the docks. Fed up of the docks for now so all i got is city view ideas, going to Croxteth Hall or going south of the pool.

    Find random street shots boring to do too without a sky and the right scene too.

    Hopefully if i get to do an access course, i plan on studying elsewhere after it as Liverpool makes me bitter.
    Gididi Gididi Goo.

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    Only thing that terminal is good for is when i needed shade in the mornings at the Pier Head when the sun was roasting more during June.
    Gididi Gididi Goo.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Max View Post
    Hopefully if i get to do an access course, i plan on studying elsewhere after it as Liverpool makes me bitter.
    What city do you like the look of? What degree subject are you interested in?

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    "The building incorporates ferry operations, a Beatles museum and a rooftop restaurant. It was designed by Belfast-based Hamilton architects".

    Belfast based? Designed to be bomb-proof then?

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