New liverpool building by exacta2a, on Flickr
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First the windows
new liverpool building by exacta2a, on Flickr
then the roof
The Mann Island apartment building part of a window cleaning round
New liverpool building by exacta2a, on Flickr
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First the windows
new liverpool building by exacta2a, on Flickr
then the roof
The Mann Island apartment building part of a window cleaning round
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Christopher T. George
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Great pics GD
Chris....we can but hope!
Jack them up and float them by barge across to the dark side.
liverpool scene by exacta2a, on Flickr
The sky reflected in the Mann Island building, from George`s Dockway
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Nice pic that GD.
Keeping it real!
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Very good Joe.
Keeping it real!
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Here`s a pic of Ged`s home from home. the tempory home of the Liverpool record office in Dunes Way, off Sandhills
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Good photo that illustrates a point perfectly.
Now that's what you call a soul-destroying building. Yes it serves a purpose but there is absolutely no architectural merit in the design/facade, it's never going to improve with age and yet these are the everyday buildings that we have to live with. when will architects re-discover that functionality doesn't have to be boring- or cost more than poor design.
The architects for Wellington Business Park were DLA from Manchester. DLA have completed many buildings with much design merit.
Industrial/Commercial buildings of this type have been honed and refined for decades. The brief would have been very tight indeed without much room, or call for, architectural expression.
It's a light industrial park offering cost-effective space to get business going in the area. Architecture with a capital A here just wouldn't work - in fact, would put some tenants off.
Buildings must do a job. Sometimes part of that job is to look exceptional or even just good. Sometimes not. This building has a good BREEAM rating (is energy efficient) and no doubt performs on many other levels.
I'm sure DLA did a good job to meet the brief - anything else and they may have been called for messing about instead of getting the job done.
Sometimes you can't win. Other times you must lose.
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Very little modern housing has an architect within a hundred miles of them. More's the pity.
As construction prices have increased, so houses have got ever smaller to stay even vaguely affordable. The Parker Morris standards were meant to be a minimum not a guide. Now they've been dropped, they're an aspiration.
On the plus side they're warmer and cost less to run but in the old days you'd just put a jumper on, so...
All your points are excuses for a very boring building
If they are award winning architects then they could have done better. This looks like a kitset shed
which does have its place but a least it could have been an interesting kitset,I agree with Ged all the replacement new build is utilitarian redbrick,mean sized and instantly on the short shelf life list.
These building have an enormous effect on the streetscape,even in business park situations the people who walk past ,them work in them, sit looking at them from their space deserve better.
Our small town has design standards to keep it different from the surrounding areas... no old buildings here, but new building do have to have architectural approval to not look like square boxes.
The guidelines are here -
http://www.orovalleyaz.gov/Assets/_a...ards+final.pdf
Much easier to do for a new town (founded in the 70's) than an old city like Liverpool though...
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