Originally Posted by
Waterways
Yes, Impressive enough.
There is not enough room for windswept plazas on the site....
There plaza designed was shockingly lifeless and harsh, and windswept. Unfortunately I can't post the image at the moment.
Originally Posted by
Waterways
...No one with any eye at all for architecture could call the building anything but special...
I have another almost identical image of Brunswick Quay: oh wait!, it's Simpson's scheme for London's South Bank. Just like a sail, a Bermudan schooner perhaps - we had lots of those in Liverpool. Inique - nah, special to Liverpool - nah
[QUOTE=Waterways;82417]... It was at a bend in the river and where the Liverpool escarpment tailed off. A perfect location for ...QUOTE]
...for something great, not this repetition of rehashed ideas from elsewhere. Another image, this time of Beetham Tower in Manchester. But no! it's Dominic Perrault's Tower 4 based on the sculptures on Christmas and Easter Island. Original? nah, no way.
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But anyone with the slightest eye for architecture would have known all that.
As for highly regarded, I'd better check on what other people think before I make up my own mind?
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