Love this Liverbird. Can't get into town til next week :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Can't wait to see all this properly. that zig-zag staircase is summat else
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Love this Liverbird. Can't get into town til next week :sad:Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
Can't wait to see all this properly. that zig-zag staircase is summat else
Review of the whole development in Building Design magazine.
If paradise is half as nice - Building Design
I like it. More people are comin to the city. Tis all good
I have two views on this development...it will be interesting to see how people view my own POV
Some people from my course now work in the new shops down the Lpool 1...one of them says "Its great...its like you aren't in Liverpool anymore when your walking through Chavasse Park"
To me...there is something very wrong if we have people liking Liverpool 1 for the fact that it doesn't feel like Liverpool. I think its very wrong for people who have been born and raised in this great city of ours, to feel as if they don't fit in with the new image of the city...or whats worse...don't recognize where they are.
However...the whole concept of mass-redevelopment is quintessentially Liverpool. We like things done on a big scale...we like doing something adventurous.
It will be interesting to see how it all matures. I hope it grows old gracefully...but will this ever compare to what we have lost??? Will this ever compare to the old Customs House?? Will this ever compare to the Sailors Home???
He talks about the new Musuem of Liverpool life too which Is looking horrible and over sized doesn't fit It with whats next to It at all.
The Liverpool one was a great Idea to build but It's just big blocks of glass and brick buildings with the odd colourful tiles.
Do the people In your course who say that like living In Liverpool?Quote:
Some people from my course now work in the new shops down the Lpool 1...one of them says "Its great...its like you aren't in Liverpool anymore when your walking through Chavasse Park"
To me...there is something very wrong if we have people liking Liverpool 1 for the fact that it doesn't feel like Liverpool. I think its very wrong for people who have been born and raised in this great city of ours, to feel as if they don't fit in with the new image of the city...or whats worse...don't recognize where they are.
Well, the people who say this are local...the quote was actually of a lad who lives in Swanside!Quote:
Originally Posted by Max
Your point of the blocks of glass and brick made me chuckle a little...as I was thinking the same thing myself.
Blocks of brick and glass Is norm In the redevelopment In Liverpool now.
The council who approve these things are descendants of Cain.
Haven't seen the new phase yet, but will be visiting again in a few weeks so will have a good look then. I love the first phase, and don't quite understand why some people are not happy with it. The whole development can only be good news for Liverpool. It will definitely bring people into the city, whether tourists or residents, and that's all good news for the local economy. It must have already provided many jobs, and no doubt will continue to do so. Many of them will be part time, and so the large student population will be pleased as it should make it easier for some of them to get a job while they are studying, again good for the local economy. The whole development has got to be better than letting the city centre become run down and derelict, as so many towns and cities are these days. Liverpudlians should be proud of a City Council with so much vision and style.
Well done Liverpool :handclap:
Gone are the days when Companies made a statement of wealth when building their headquarters here such as The Royal Liver friendly assurance or when the likes of Walker or William Brown pumped money into grand civic buildings - it's all done on a tight quick build budget now with the developers making the most of it. This IS 21st Century architecture - the likes of which you may have saw pictured back in the 1970s/80s when the year 2000 was in the futuristic distant future.
I await to see what my council tax bill will be in a couple of years?
Im expecting it to rise sharly, if it does im out of this city, im not paying for all this:PDT_Xtremez_12:
The ?1 billion pound cost of the Liverpool One project was totally paid for by private investment - the Grosvenor Company. Doing so reflects a growing confidence in the future of Liverpool: private companies don't put in that amount of money unless they expect to get something back, they're not charities. This is one of the first projects not to rely on EU, govn or council money and shows Liverpool standing on her own two feet.
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Originally Posted by Spike
Did anyone see the advert for Liverpool 1 after the X Factor last night? Very professional!
I have to admit I do quite like the marketing campaign for the centre. I wasn't fussed on the original one when phase 1 opened but the billboard and press adverts do look good; they don't really make sense but they do look quite... smooth! :D
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Originally Posted by Spike
The cons have promised to freeze council tax bills for 2 years if they get in - is that a con? :)
I'll tell you what I am surprised about though with all these stealth taxes about. The last time the council gave bandings to properties was in the 1990s. It's a wonder they haven't used google earth or something to snoop on who has had a conservatory or extension built to up the income.
Please delete this after reading in case it gives them any ideas. If not it will self destruct in 48 hours.
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Originally Posted by gregs dad
I"ve already seen half a dozen hooded scallies climbing up the bit on the right hand side of the escalator...Made me feel ashamed as it was on a busy Saturday afternoon and the escalators were full of people.:PDT_Xtremez_12:
I think the place is fab! It's put Liverpool on the map again... I'm sick of the moaners who keep dissing the place... Let's be proud! We've loads of historic buildings in Liverpool, of which I am very proud of! The city centre was crying out for this.... rejoice!
Love the pics guys too! :handclap: :PDT_Aliboronz_24: :)
I agree!:handclap::PDT11:PDT_Aliboronz_24:Quote:
Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
Liverpool was on the map anyway thanks to 4 moptops but It does give me something do lately cause I feel like for walks around the shopping area.
Still feels pretty small though and I like the look of the Trafford centre a bit better.
I did not say i dont like it, i said i wont go in.:PDT_Xtremez_12:
me thinks our council tax will rocket very soon, mark my words. 2008 will be an excuse to rip us off some more. just watch the " the expense was over budget " sayings that will appear, and how council tax will have to be used to foot bills.
i think Liverpool has been on the map for many years.
With this being private investment though, I do think if council taxes go up it will more than likely be due to the 08 CoC year.
Liverpool was originally on the map due to Shipping and innovative and eminent people.
Then came Efc
Then came the Beatles.
Then came Lfc
:)
Don't you think the Trafford centre looks a little tacky? With all the urns and stuff... never liked the place...Quote:
Originally Posted by Max
Liverpool One's setting is a little more classy if you ask me :Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13
We certainly were not on the shopping map though! I love our city and I'm proud to be scouse, but the shopping was crap... I hated having to go to other cities just to get a bit a decent shopping in ! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike
Now I have everything i need in my home city :)
I never had to go anywhere else to get shopping, everything i ever needed was here. i must have been seeing things over the past few years, i thought the city centre was full of shops, seems like i was mistaken.:Smiliz_Kingz_PDT_13
what can you buy in this new place that you could not buy in Liverpool before?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3281/...afa9c6f2_o.jpg
Reflections as the sun goes down
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3065/...3eaa4e51_o.jpg
hmmm ... where do I start.... I like Debenhams for clothes - fantastic range(not here before)... John Lewis has expanded and now has a better range (best outside of London)... ZARA Home... Urban Outfitters...Republic... I could name more... plus more shops opening soon.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike
Food wise.. Wagamamas!, Yo Sushi, Las Iguanas...
Like I say, I don't need to go outside the city anymore! fab! :handclap:
Excellent photographs!!!:handclap:
The night shots are cool... love the reflections one too :handclap:Quote:
Originally Posted by gregs dad
So we could not buy cothes or food here before, wow we where so primative. We where all tramps who ate slop.Quote:
Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
" hmmm " is a form of sarcasm :disgust:
Nice reflection photo gregs dad :handclap::)
Well it certainly wasn't meant to be! :shock:Quote:
Originally Posted by Spike
Why are you turning this in to an argument? If you don't like the place then don't go! :rolleyes:
I also find it handy that the place is open until 8pm... sometimes found it hard to get things due to my working hours... :PDT_Aliboronz_24:
turning into an argument? can you explain that please? all i have done is reply? where is the arguement? i dont go to this shopping area, i have made that clear. I also try to make clear that Liverpool did already have shops in the city, you could buy everything here. If you like the place fine, if you dont then fine. I dont like the place, nothing against anyone who has. but because i dont like the place does that mean i can not put my bit into this thread?
( note to one's self: be sure not to go on threads where you do not agree with everyone else, as it is against the law )
arguement, really? you have to laugh :)
I'm glad the parks open now too... pity is wasn't open in the summer though! Mind you we didn't have much of a summer anyway! :)
Has anyone been inside the cinema yet? I've tended to go to FACT... but may give it a go myself...
Yeah I'm a fact fan too...But I'll definately be giving the new Odeon many visits too.
Just nice to have the choice isn't it? :PDT11Quote:
Originally Posted by Klaatu
Yeah...and I live in Bold street...They're all just around the corner for me:PDT11
I wont go in so i have seen nothing, but im really glad that they have left a park there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Digital Fanatic
I think the park is bigger and better than before. I just remember a green space with a path running through it with a couple of park benches. They'd put a fun fair on it from time to time near the end of its life too.
We had our wedding photos took at the rear of the Moat House in 1988, which overlooked the park - but sadly overlooked Steers house too :shock:
That's right Ged. There was just some grass with a path.
I never knew it was supposed to be a park :neutral:
very rare I went over that way but I went there when the fair was there.
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Originally Posted by lindylou
Yeah, I think 'park' was stretching it a bit :unibrow: I only ever went across there on an occasional 'expedition' to Albert Dock. It's great the way the dock seems much closer now.