Should Liverpool build 'L.A.' type Skyscrapers?

[Waterways]

hee, hee, Benidorm looks horrible ! although I havn't been there - but it does look grotesgue from what I've seen of it.
It's holiday place though.
We wouldn't want anything as cluttered as that. I do agree with NL aswell about not actually being able to see the sky for skyscrapers. I would never want it to that extent !

Just a few smart and lovely buildings is fine.

Benidorm is a planning disaster. Some cities do cluster buildings too tightly - but hey are commercial buildings. Function first - form after. Chicago is one. But much fun.

[gregs dad]

[QUOTE=Waterways;284541]They maximize the investment and produce quality accommodation - with a view.
What view, the tower across the road

[Spike]

What view, the tower across the road

Well Said

[Spike]

Homes are homes - we need them, especially quality homes. The market decides the price.



I do? fantastic.

We need family homes. Not tower blocks. We knocked most of our Tower blocks down.

Im glad you like your hometown of Watford.

[Ged]

It has to be said that developers by and large aren't interested in making the place look attractive, just maximising what money they can make out of the smallest footprint. This goes for whether it's someone buying up lovely old victorian detached properties and ripping them out and turning them into flats - or - apartments as that word gets more rent.

Gregs dad is correct in that it must be annoying for the owners in these high rises with a view paying top wack only for another tower block to be built directly in the view line of it blocking out the Welsh mountains et al.

[Waterways]

What view, the tower across the road

Not in Liverpool, which is not doing a NY.

[Waterways]

Im glad you like your hometown of Watford.

I like Watford?

[Waterways]

It has to be said that developers by and large aren't interested in making the place look attractive, just maximising what money they can make out of the smallest footprint. This goes for whether it's someone buying up lovely old victorian detached properties and ripping them out and turning them into flats - or - apartments as that word gets more rent.

The taller the more they make ,meaning they can appoint the building better with superior design and materials. Look at Liverpool when almost every building gets 5 to 10 floors lopped off. The well appointed foyer get the marble taken away, the exterior gets cheaper finishing, etc. From a well designed building it ends up poorly finished bland forgettable stump - so Liverpool.

If we are going to build modern buildings, build them properly: tall, well designed and appointed.

[Spike]

The taller the more they make ,meaning they can appoint the building better with superior design and materials. Look at Liverpool when almost every building gets 5 to 10 floors lopped off. The well appointed foyer get the marble taken away, the exterior gets cheaper finishing, etc. From a well designed building it ends up poorly finished bland forgettable stump - so Liverpool.

If we are going to build modern buildings, build them properly: tall, well designed and appointed.

NAH! just dont build this rubbish.

[gregs dad]

You only have to look at the Waterloo dock,They developed that into luxury apartments with view across the river, showed people the model of how it would look. A couple of tears later they built a block half as high again in front of them, which wasn`t on the model, so depriving half of the first tenanants of the views.

[Waterways]

You only have to look at the Waterloo dock,They developed that into luxury apartments with view across the river, showed people the model of how it would look. A couple of tears later they built a block half as high again in front of them, which wasn`t on the model, so depriving half of the first tenanants of the views.

They were naive to think that blank quay would be left vacant. Also the best views are when they face inwards into the dock waterspaces, not to the tidal river, with mud at low tide, which is quite bland. The Albert Dock shelters those on the quays from the wind. The way to do it.

[Spike]

Are you sheltered from the wind 20 floors plus up?

[Spike]

We need shelter from Waterways wind.

[Max]

I am a fan of this Skyscraper in Osaka. Two buildings connected and inbetween them high up is a bridge that goes across from one to the other and the public can go up and get a view of the city from them which is about 2 or 3 pounds odd in our money!




http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e4002.html

[Max]

First time I heard of Benidorm was when Brookside did some show were they went to a stag do or engagement/honeymoon related party with Bev in it I think! I never remembered that until seeing "Benidorm" on this thread hahah!