Originally Posted by
Waterways
Yes, Impressive enough.
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There is not enough room for windswept plazas on the site....
There plaza designed was shockingly lifeless and harsh, and windswept. Unfortunately I can't post the image at the moment.
Originally Posted by
Waterways
...No one with any eye at all for architecture could call the building anything but special...
I have another almost identical image of Brunswick Quay: oh wait!, it's Simpson's scheme for London's South Bank. Just like a sail, a Bermudan schooner perhaps - we had lots of those in Liverpool. Inique - nah, special to Liverpool - nah
[QUOTE=Waterways;82417]... It was at a bend in the river and where the Liverpool escarpment tailed off. A perfect location for ...QUOTE]
...for something great, not this repetition of rehashed ideas from elsewhere. Another image, this time of Beetham Tower in Manchester. But no! it's Dominic Perrault's Tower 4 based on the sculptures on Christmas and Easter Island. Original? nah, no way.
But anyone with the slightest eye for architecture would have known all that.
As for highly regarded, I'd better check on what other people think before I make up my own mind?
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