Liverpool is famous (apart from The Beatles and Liverpool FC!) for historic buildings such as the Catholic and Anglican Cathedrals, and for the Three Graces. More recently it has witnessed the controversial Fourth Grace debate as first Will Alsop then Broadway Malyan and 3 x Nielsen try and add a building at this key Merseyside site. Famous architects that achieved major architecture works here include CR Cockerell and Gilbert Scott. Liverpool is to be European City of Architecture in 2008.

Enjoy your visit!


Liverpool waterfront buildings : photo © tim collins

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Liverpool buildings : Photos by Adrian Welch - Oct2007


Liverpool Building News - 2007:

Great George Street: Housing for Urban Splash
2008-
Alison Brooks; Shed KM; Querkraft
Great George Street - Phase 1

Image © 2007 ABA

Liverpool Waters
2007
Chapman Taylor Architects
Liverpool waterfront buildings : Masterplan

Princes Dock
approved Jun 2007
RMJM

approx. 34-storey tower

One Park West - Tower
2006-09
Cesar Pelli Architects


Floating homes
2007-
KKA Architects

Everyman & Playhouse Theatre Redevelopment
2007-
Hawkins\Brown

Bluecoat
2007
biq stadsontwerp bv

Bluecoat Arts centre

New Leeds-Liverpool Canal Footbridge, Bootle
2007
Softroom Architects
Architecture competition win
Shortlist: Arca, B & C Associati, Chris Curtis & Elliott Wood, Hakes Associates, Softroom Architects, Youssef Ghali

Son of Brunswick Quay
Tower site previously designed by Simpson, for developer Maro
Shortlist: BDP, Broadway Malyan, SMC:DTR Ormrod, Studio Egret West

Liverpool theatre redevelopment
2007
Haworth Tompkins


Liverpool Three Graces from the Mersey: photo © tim collins

Liverpool Buildings:

BBC Radio building, Hanover St, central Liverpool
2007
Page\Park Architects

photo © adrian welch oct 2007
BBC Radio Merseyside
Part of Liverpool One project

Hilton hotel, Chavasse Park
2006-09
Squire & Partners, architects
Part of Liverpool One project

Greenland Street
2006
Office for Subversive Architecture

Liverpool building

Lime Street Gateway - Lime Street Station Redevelopment
2006
-
Listed Victorian Station - new 28 storey mixed-use tower

Matchworks, Speke Rd, Garston, south Liverpool
2001-06
shedkm architects
17 acre site for Urban Splash incl. Matchbox office building

Museum of Liverpool, Mann Island site, central Liverpool
2006-
3 x Nielsen Architects

Sefton Water Centre, Merseyside
2006-
BDP Architects

Unity Liverpool development, 20 Chapel Street, Waterfront, central Liverpool
2006
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
RIBA National Award 2007

LIVERPOOL BUILDINGS

Proposed Liverpool Buildings (alphabetical):

Brunswick Quay
possibly never to be realised
Ian Simpson Architects

Mann Island
2005-
Broadway Malyan Architects

House, Allerton
shedkm Architects

King's Waterfront Civic Facilities, Kings Dock Arena, central Liverpool
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Liverpool John Moores University
Rick Mather Architects
Competition win

Liverpool One
42 acre site for Grosvenor
Liverpool One development

Liverpool FC Stadium, Stanley Park
Liverpool Stadium building

Liverpool Stadium building image from Liverpool Football Club PR 260706

Liverpool University Sports Facility
Austin Smith Lord Architects

Malmaison Hotel Liverpool, Princes Dock
2006-

Museum of Liverpool
3 x Nielsen Architects

Paradise Street redevelopment - masterplan
2006-09
BDP Architects
Reputedly the largest city centre regeneration project in Europe

New World Square, Princes Dock
2007-09
John Lyall Architects
£130m mixed-use waterfront development incl. 5-star hotel + 362 apartments


Liverpool Three Graces from the Mersey: photo © tim collins

Abandonded Liverpool Building:

Fourth Grace – Cloud
2005 - aborted
Will Alsop Architects
Highly controversial centre piece of Liverpool's European capital of culture in 2008 bid


Key Existing Liverpool Buildings (alphabetical):

Albert Dock
1846
Jesse Hartley

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
1904-78
Giles Gilbert Scott, Architect
Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool: largest Anglican cathedral in the world
Classic Liverpool Cathedral Building

Liverpool Catholic Cathedral, Hope Street
1967
Frederick Gibberd, architect

Liverpool Catholic Cathedral Crypt, Hope Street
1933
Edwin Lutyens
Liverpool Cathedral Architect: Sir Edwin Lutyens


Existing Liverpool Buildings (alphabetical):

Assize Courts & St George's Hall, Lime Street, central Liverpool
1854
Harvey Lonsdale Elmes; CR Cockerell, Architect

Blue Coat Chambers
1710
Oldest building in Liverpool city centre, currently being refurbished

Castle Street
1854
CR Cockerell, Architect

Cunard Building, Pier Head, central Liverpool
1918
Willink and Thicknesse, Architects

Middle building of the three Graces

Lime Street Station, Lime Street, central Liverpool
1879
John Fowler

Lime Street Station

Former Littlewoods Building, Edge Lane
Art Deco building on edge of Liverpool

Liverpool Town Hall, Castle St, central Liverpool
1754
John Wood of Bath, Architect

Liverpool Town Hall

North Western Hotel, Lime St, central Liverpool
1871
Alfred Waterhouse, Architect

Liverpool Hotel Building

Oriel Chambers, Water St / Covent Garden, central Liverpool
1864
Peter Ellis, Architect

Oriel Chambers Liverpool

Philharmonic Hotel
1890
Walter Thomas

Port of Liverpool Building, Pier Head, central Liverpool
1907
Arnold Thornley with Briggs & Wolstenholme, Architects

Port of Liverpool Building

Royal Liver Building, Pier Head, central Liverpool
1911
W Aubrey Thomas, Architect


St George's Hall - Phase II Refurbishment
2007
Purcell Miller Tritton

St Georges Hall

Tate Gallery Liverpool
1988
Phase 1: James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates

University Sports Centre, Oxford Road
1963
Denys Lasdun

Walker Art Gallery, William Brown Street, central Liverpool
HH Vale, Architect & Cornelius Sherlock
1882

Liverpool art gallery

White Star Line building, Strand / James St, central Liverpool
-
Richard Norman Shaw with J Francis Doyle, Architects

Liverpool building


Liverpool Three Graces from the Mersey: photo © tim collins

NORTH WEST ENGLAND BUILDINGS
Aintree racecourse – Grandstand, nr Liverpool
2007
BDP

National Wildflower Centre, Knowsley, Merseyside
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects

Manchester Architecture

Liverpool building : alphabetical list



English Architecture - Awards

Contemporary Architects

World Architecture : e-architect - a guide to key buildings across the globe

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