Fantastic photos Phil.
I love old photos like that. Anyone got any more of the Seel Street area from that era?
So
what you are saying is that everyone in Liverpool should be able to see these buildings which in turn will make it great. What a load of S--t. Firstly alot
of people won't want to see a really tall building from their house, secondly, incase you didn't know, Liverpool is built on a hill therefore people living
in areas such as west derby and croxteth will never be able to see any tall building in the city centre and finally, just because a building is tall doesn't
mean it is great, for example, the World Trade Center buildings where tall but visualy unimpressive and poorly built.
On these skyscraper sites the loonies there drool on about how tall this is and that is, and what a
skyline. Paris has few talls, yet what a city!!!
Croydon has a number of talls in a cluster - not one is of any merit at all. The same with most of
Birmingham and Manchester. Birmingham has one iconic building of any type and Manchester none. Most of the talls are from identikit skyscraper boxes. Very
third world
People in a city see it from the ground and what is offered to them on the ground.
Tall buildings have their place. They have to be
quality as they are so prominent.
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...true enough. Think Rome, think Berlin. Though, to be fair, in the Paris example the La Defense district is visually at least a highly impressive counterpoint.
As for talls in general, I think we're conditioned to hope that someone is going to recreate the iconic clusters and buildings of Manhatten..It would be nice, of course but economics are different now, 'design' is subserviant to function and 'function' in the context of creating an office blocks just aint that spectacular. And we're not washing around in billions of dollars like Hong Kong or Dubai.
Still, I get as excited about this crap as anyone else.
When they see it, most people say: Wow!
TRENDY retailer American Apparel and noodle bar Wagamama are coming to Liverpool.
The latest signings to the £900m Paradise Street project also include Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Strada.
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The new Amsterdam at Liverpool?
Save Liverpool Docks and Waterways - Click
Deprived of its unique dockland waters Liverpool
becomes a Venice without canals, just another city, no
longer of special interest to anyone, least of all the
tourist. Would we visit a modernised Venice of filled in
canals to view its modern museum describing
how it once was?
Giving Liverpool a full Metro - CLICK
Rapid-transit rail: Everton, Liverpool & Arena - CLICK
Save Royal Iris - Sign Petition
I can't stand places like hong kong and dubai. They are completely false and completely unfair places. The money is concentrated in the centres and the suburbs are full of third world poverty. It is the same with shanghai. Other countries including ourselves could do this but we have true democracies with morals and very little corruption.
That pic was taken with a box camera about 1956, I found it recently, cracked faded and stained, a friend of my wifes restored it. The car was my first one, I was 17 in the pic. It was a 1937 Ford Y model. It was taken in Maryland St. which is parallel to Hardman St. I worked for Blakes the Ford main dealer at that time.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c8...elbyKerma2.jpg
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Blakes in Hardman Street is a pub now.
Likewise their premises in Rodney Street.
I was a car spotter in the late 1950s and 1960s.
I still have my Observer Books of Automobiles.
The Ford Consul, based on the Ford Thunderbird, was my favourite car.
The Zodiac was a bit too flashy, I thought, but the same bodyshell.
They didn't have premises in Rodney St., do you mean the'Safety Lane' depot that fronted onto Brownlow Hill?, That was a huge repair and storage shop named for the lane that ran through the middle of it.
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