http://www.liverpoolcityportal.co.uk.../pierhead.html
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liver...0252-24548157/
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http://www.merseyferries.co.uk/
This building has featured on Yo! time and time again. It seems to be a part of town that attracts the casual stroller, nothing wrong with that.
The building does not appear on many of the sites that come up when I searched for 'Pier Head'. Maybe that has something to do with the award or something to do with the fact that there are many more impressive and more permanent buildings to be seen.
I take it that the main function of the building is as a ticket office. There is something on one side of the roof, a cafe or something, somewhere to sit and take in the scene. This strikes me as a little odd that this building itself gives people a view of those other more stately buildings round about and not out over the river or both even.
It looks (if I have this right) a little better in the picture on the last site linked above, viewed from the water.
All in all the thing either performs it's function or it does not, looks good on approach from the river or not, but it has always looked 'pop' or cookie to me, which is as much Liverpool as maritime history is.
What should it look like, what part must it play in the look and process of the area?
Does it work?
---------- Post added at 07:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:05 PM ----------
Awe nits!!!
I have had another look at the view from the water and the 'double trumpet' is not the ticket office, as you all knew anyway. I see that from the water this building looks like a letter box of glass and concrete. Not as cool as I had hoped/thought.
Then again it does not get in the way of or detract from the view of the more stately structures. [much]
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