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The Teardrop Explodes
It's a shame we can't get business to do anything with these buildings other give yet more apartments. If the Liverpool Waters project goes ahead, the whole around area here will be one huge yuppie apartment.
This is a grand building which should've been converted into a World & Northern Trade Centre, British Library North, National Military/Naval/Whatever Museum, another internationally significant art gallery(maybe focussing on a single movement, area or artist)....
That's the landmark significance and quality of this structure, not just to be another soulless apartment conversion, presumably gated and dead like the Waterloo..
Apartments can be built anywhere ffs, but we'll never get buildings like this again. It's a bit like selling off more of the family jewels for a pittance.
I mean could we at least not have band rehearsal spaces, local artist studios and projects (like the Buddleia), included into the scheme???
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Anyway, apartments it is. Hopefully successful, hopefully open access, and hopefully feeding round the clock life and activity in the form of bars etc, etc etc...unlike the Waterloo.
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