Liverpool ONE
Liverpool One is just an extension of the city centre. It is not a shopping mall as such, as the Trafford Centre is in Manchester, a building surrounded by a massive car park. Liverpool One is of no merit whatsoever. OK, but really very forgettable.
The adjacent 1970-80s cheap brown clad buildings need re-cladding in newer brighter stay-clean cladding.
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Customs House Cellars
The cellars, I used to walk through as a kid in the bombed ruins of the Custom House.
The Old Dock
Everyone I talk to when looking down the glass hole in to the remains of the Old Dock, all agree that it should have been partially excavated and boats reintroduced. Then Liverpool One would have been spectacular, with a historic dock and boats in the middle That is too easy is isn't? The same views of the Echo Arena. I have met no one personally in Liverpool who disagrees that it is an IKEA shed looking abomination and should have been built on the land side of the Queens Dock Quays. But this is Liverpool where common sense dissipates all too often.
Kings Dock - How not to do it
1 Park West
The chamfered Cesar Pelli building was supposed to be about 7 floors higher. I agree it should have been the height it is now. Too many tall buildings on the front will block out the buildings behind and create a wall between the dock waters and city inland, as happened on the the South Bank of the Thames in places. The rectangular block next to the corner building looks like the worst of 1960s architecture, resembling a cheap Council Offices block. Not very good at all for such a location.
Tall Buildings
Tall buildings on the river wall are fine as
the attraction is the still docks waters not the smellly at low tide river beyond with the appalling looking Wirral waterfront beyond. Read Peels blurb and it barks on about "waterfront" locations, in justification for filling in docks waterspaces. The attraction is docks water locations with buildings shielding the docks from the bitter winds coming in from Liverpool Bay, as the Albert Dock buildings do.
Docks Road
The Dock Rd (the only part of a misguided urban motorway plan completed) is a hindrance between the Albert Dock and Liverpool One, as noted by the New York Times. This road need removing and all merged into one pedestrianised one.
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