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    I remember them building that highest block in the render shown above. We lived in Gerard Crescent's Thurlow House at the time and our back veranda overlooked the Tysons site with the two massive cranes there. I had to rush in and get my lego out then
    That's the block I work in. Abseiled off the roof a few years back to raise money for the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation.

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    This new building is very forgettable.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Waterways View Post
    This new building is very forgettable.
    Matches what's already there!!!

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    PLANNERS have given the go-ahead for a £20m science building and laboratory in Liverpool city centre.

    Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) will transform its Byrom Street campus with a five and three-storey building described as a “box within a box” design.

    The building will house laboratories, accommodation and a 70-metre running track.

    The plans were passed despite concerns from local residents about the loss of 70 car parking spaces on site, encouraging students to park on residential streets.

    Council planning officers said no parking problems were evident when they visited the site and neighbouring streets.

    But LJMU has agreed to replace some of the lost spaces and provide £25,000 for a residents parking scheme if the council decides it is needed.

    The building will have an outer box housing a foyer and cafe.
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    New science building
    25 March 2008

    Planning permission granted for new Byrom Street development



    LJMU has received planning permission to develop a new purpose built science building at its Byrom Street Campus.

    Once completed in 2009, the development will enable the University to consolidate the majority of its teaching and research in science and technology within one strategic Liverpool city centre site, following the relocation of its School of Sport and Exercise Sciences and the School of Psychology.

    Around 50% of the new building's 6,400 square metre floorspace will be given over to specialist teaching and research laboratories, with the remainder being used for teaching, IT suites and staff accommodation.

    Access to the building will be via a double height foyer with cascading staircase and small cafe. An interior "box", on the lower and upper ground floors, will house specialist sport and exercise science labs. Many of these require very controlled environments and minimal natural light, such as the sleep lab (or temporal isolation laboratory), which is used by LJMU scientists analysing the role of the human body clock to manipulate waking and sleeping cycles.

    Professor Michael Brown, LJMU's Vice Chancellor said: "The laboratories and advanced facilities in this new building will enable us to take our science research, particularly in the area of sport and exercise sciences, in new and exciting directions."

    Given Byrom Street's varied topography, architect Dominic Wilkinson says that it has been a "challenging project" but one that he hopes will set "a high benchmark for future developments".

    LJMU's School of Sport and Exercise Sciences is ranked as the UK's number one for both teaching and research in this field. The specialist facilities housed within the new building reflect the School's elite status and will include an indoor 70-metre running track and labs for testing cardio-vascular ability, motor skills and bio-mechanics functions. The building will also have additional biochemistry and psychology teaching labs.

    Whereas the labs are highly specialised in design, the general staff and teaching accommodation is designed to be very flexible. As far as possible, layouts have been 'future proofed' to ensure that they can be easily adapted for different uses, with ancillary uses and services clustered together in designated zones.

    Work is due to start on the new building in April 2008, with completion due for the start of the first semester in 2009.

    Source: LJMU News Update

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    Contractors moved on site yesterday morning (Tuesday 25 March) and started work on the new Byrom St science building.

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    Crikey that was quick.


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    There must have been a 'bung' to guarantee getting planning permission.

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    I am sure LJMU was just well organised.

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    Great pics Howie. I used to live just there, first where the police station now is and then in the tenements that were almost facing it. I remember the taller JMU building being built in 71, it was just known as the polytech then.
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    The new building is really comming along now...although there's now nowhere to park on the Byrom Street campus!

    There's been some work going on inside the main building with corridors being given a lick of green and white paint!

    But if your wanting a canteen...don't come ere! Its all been coffee bar'd.
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    I understand the pressures on the space over the next couple of years until all the planned developments have been completed. It does seem though that at the moment the need for teaching accommodation has won over providing other facilities. I fully agree with you, that given the location of the site and the large number of staff and students there, having only three over-priced kiosks is far from ideal. Personally I miss the bar more than the canteen.

    PS There is car parking available at Camden Street (by the National Express coach station) - only 5 minutes walk away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Howie View Post
    I understand the pressures on the space over the next couple of years until all the planned developments have been completed. It does seem though that at the moment the need for teaching accommodation has won over providing other facilities. I fully agree with you, that given the location of the site and the large number of staff and students there, having only three over-priced kiosks is far from ideal. Personally I miss the bar more than the canteen.

    PS There is car parking available at Camden Street (by the National Express coach station) - only 5 minutes walk away.
    I only started there this September, but I have heard the old bar was one of the highlights of Byrom Street! But if your wanting a coffee (black) it will set you back ?1.25! They sell butties and strange warm sandwich things, but the only canteen to be found at LJMU (to my knowledge) is at the Avril Robarts centre.

    The Car-park on Camden Street isn't an idea which has suited most lecturers! Most of them now use public transport, especially those on the Wirral!

    From a photographers point of view, I hope this new block will be high enough to get some good views over Marybone ect! I have already found a nice room on the 10th floor where I can get some views from. The idea is that in 4 years time, I'll take the same views again.
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