Originally Posted by
GNASHER
We can 'make em like that' given the chance.
I have been in the building game for 42 years and the biggest tossers on site are architects.They 'design' for themself not for the client.It's 'what looks good in their portfolio,will it win a prize'.Not 'is this what the client wants?,will it fit in with the area?'.
Any building on the water front should be in harmony(externally) with what is already there.
And remember,like the '60s high rise and estates,the tossers that 'design' them don't live here.
Commercial clients couldn't give a toss for design. It seems to me it's the Architects who do not have the skill to master or overcome their clients' commercial considerations that create crap buildings.
Every outstanding building that has has become loved and trusted has been derided when new and therefore new-fangled nonsense that 'didn't fit in'. The Liver buildings themselves were described as monstrous (because of the overblown proportions). Truth is most people are stupifyingly frightened of anything new.
It's funny how remaining tower blocks from the mad, bad sixties are now highly desirable (simply with maintenance and the addition of a prestigious lobby)
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Plenty of Architects are living and working in Liverpool and those that don't, bring something new and fresh (since we pride ourselves on being an outward-looking and international global city).
And if don't like steel and glass, it's the contractors' stranglehold on cost that has driven other 'quality' materials such as stone and bronze out of the market along with the skilled craftsmen and apprentices to go with them.
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