Thats just a stereotypical view of architects in my experience. Architects can only build what the clients wants. It's a bit naive to think that clients are prepared to hand over millions of their...
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Thats just a stereotypical view of architects in my experience. Architects can only build what the clients wants. It's a bit naive to think that clients are prepared to hand over millions of their...
Millennium & Copthorne Commits to Liverpool Scheme
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MILLENNIUM & Copthorne Hotels is to open two new hotels in Liverpool?s Central...
Review of the whole development in Building Design magazine.
If paradise is half as nice - Building Design
I could not agree with you more about WHSmiths. Just been in the new one and i could not believe how small it was. The magazine isles are so narrow i almost had to get on my hands and knees to find...
This is why M&S are mooving onto the OLD John Lewis for 2 Years
Then back into the new store
"As part of our work in developing an architectural language for Marks and Spencer, we developed a...
Oops Double post.
Can someone please delete this.
Danish practice 3XN won the project in 2004, beating Daniel Libeskind and Zaha Hadid, only to be sacked by the museum last November over “performance issues”. Until now it has only criticised the...
Public art = Waste of money
Not that old chestnut again. Can you imagine how dull the city would be if you never spent any money on non essential things? Why not melt down all the Beatles statues...
Its not looking good for the King Edward Tower.
Cabe is really not happy with it.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3110299
Interesting interview with the Architects now running the New Museum project.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=453&storycode=3110196
Just found this short article about the upcoming Le Corbusier exhibition planned for later this year. It has some nice pictures of the crypt.
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Did anyone else see this in the Guardian on Saturday?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/mar/29/communities
The section on Liverpool is about half way down.
Scary stuff.
Adlington House too has just recently been developed very successfully.
I agree but when the do start to develop those areas i bet you any money they wont be building new large Georgian town houses.
It was not my intention to say the Brunswick Quay was a 60's tower block, I agree it would have be a great addition to Liverpool's skyline and a catalyst for further development as will the Shanghai...
"developers would line up to do that" Really? What is stopping them from doing just that?
They are only interested in profit and building to the size and proportion of those Georgian buildings wont...
If everyone had this attitude then we would still be living in caves or mud huts. The great building that Waterways just mentioned were all considered modern in their day. You cant turn the whole...
Insufficient parking has always been a reason for them to reject an application whatever the size or type of the building.
Here is a different view of the winning entry.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=426&storycode=3108808
Here is a link to a video of the opening and a talk by the architect.
http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=763&storycode=3108574&c=2&encCode=00000000014809d6
and here is a article...
You had better lock up the planning department and the clients first.
They are the ones with no design training who give everything the green light.
I'm not sure of the client but i know the architects have had an outline planning application approval but the council is trying to go back on this.
They want floors knocking off it so i cannot be...
I'm not a Scouser either but until recently i lived and worked in liverpool for 14 years (still work there for now)
I agree that the site is an eyesore. The council have been blocking a rival...
I don't want yet another thread on this usually fine web site getting hijacked by another petty squabble.
I maybe over reacted to a small issue but it seems to me to happen all to often. I only...
I'm sure you will get over it Philip.