Liverpool Building News

Aintree Race Course, nr. Liverpool
2007
BDP
Client: Aintree Racecourse Ltd

Albert Dock
1846
Jesse Hartley

photo © adrian welch oct 2007
Liverpool building

Assize Courts & St George's Hall, Lime Street, central Liverpool
1854
completed after death of Harvey Lonsdale Elmes: CR Cockerell, Architect

photo © adrian welch oct 2007
Liverpool building

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

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BBC Radio Merseyside Part of Liverpool One project

Bling Bling building - Herbert Hairdressing, Hanover St / School Lane
2007
CZWG

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Bling Bling building Liverpool Part of Liverpool One project

Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2007
biq stadsontwerp bv

Liverpool building : Bluecoat Arts centre

Blue Coat Chambers
The original building of the Blue Coat School, built around 1710, the oldest building in Liverpool's city centre. Currently being refurbished

Brunswick Quay, Liverpool: possibly never to be realised
Ian Simpson Architects
rejected in controversial manner

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

Castle Street, Liverpool
1851-54
CR Cockerell, Architect

Cathedral of Christ the King - Catholic Cathedral: see Liverpool Cathedral

Central Village
2007-
Woods Bagot

Chavasse Park - new Hilton hotel
2006-07
Squire & Partners, architects + Aedas Architects

£35m, adj. Chavasse Park & Cesar Pelli tower
Chavasse Park Zone – ideas competition, Liverpool
1995

Collegiate Regeneration
2002
Shed KM
for Urban Splash: £9m

Cunard Building, Pier Head, central Liverpool
1914-18
Willink and Thicknesse, Architects


Design Academy, John Moores University
2007-
Rick Mather
adj. Catholic Cathedral
approx £24m

Everyman & Playhouse Theatre Redevelopment
2007-
Hawkins\Brown
£35m approx.

Floating homes
2007-
KKA Architects

Foundation for Art & Creative Technology – FACT, RopeWalks
2003
Austin-Smith:Lord
£10m

Fourth Grace – Cloud
2003-05 - aborted
Will Alsop Architects
Will Alsop's wacky Fourth Grace on the Liverpool waterfront was cancelled

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

Image © 2007 ABA

Greenland Street
2006
Office for Subversive Architecture

Liverpool building

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

House, Allerton
shedkm Architects

King’s Dock Towers
2007-
Glen Howells Architects

King Edward Tower – proposal
2007-
Leach Rhodes Walker

King's Waterfront Civic Facilities, Kings Dock Arena, central Liverpool
2008
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

Liverpool Arena Building

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

Liverpool Station Building

Lime Street Gateway – Redevelopment
2007-
Glen Howells Architects
28-storey mixed-use tower

Former Littlewoods Building, Edge Lane
Littlewoods Building redevelopment - Art Deco building on edge of Liverpool
2007-
ShedKM

Liver Street car park, interchange + bridge, Paradise Street area, central Liverpool
2007
Wilkinson Eyre
see Paradise Street entry down page

Liverpool Academy
2007-
Atkins

Liverpool Anglican Cathedral - Cathedral Church of Christ in Liverpool
1904-78
Giles Gilbert Scott, Architect

Largest Anglican cathedral in the world: classic Liverpool Building

Liverpool Arena & Convention Centre, adj Albert Dock
see King's Waterfront Civic Facilities

The Liverpool Blue Coat School - Redevelopment, Wavetree
-
Nightingale Associates
Existing building: Grade II*

Liverpool Catholic Cathedral, Hope Street
1967
Frederick Gibberd, architect

Liverpool Cathedral building

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

Liverpool Central
2007-
Woods Bagot
Planning awarded, £160m: Mixed-use development on derelict land adjacent to Liverpool’s Central Station - retail; residential; leisure; approx. area: 600,000 sqft

Liverpool FC Stadium, Stanley Park
Liverpool Stadium building

Liverpool Stadium building image from Liverpool Football Club PR 260706

Liverpool John Moores University
-
Rick Mather Architects
Competition win

Liverpool One
2006-09
42 acre site for Grosvenor
Liverpool One buildings

Liverpool South Parkway Interchange
2007
Jefferson Sheard

Aerial View courtesy of Kalzip
Liverpool South Parkway

Liverpool Theatre redevelopment: see Everyman & Playhouse Theatre
2007-
Haworth Tompkins

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

Liverpool Town Hall

Liverpool University Sports Facility
-
Austin Smith Lord Architects

Liverpool Waters, Liverpool, UK
2007
Chapman Taylor Architects
Liverpool buildings : Waterfront Masterplan

Malmaison Hotel Liverpool, Princes Dock
2006-
-


Mann Island
2005-
Broadway Malyan Architects

image from Broadway Malyan Architects Oct 2007
Mann Island Liverpool

Marriott Hotel & David Lloyd Leisure Club, Speke, Merseyside
-
Falconer Chester Architects
Former Liverpool Airport, 1937
Art Deco terminal building converted to four-star hotel
Grade II Listed hangars converted to leisure club

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

Museum of Liverpool, Mann Island site, central Liverpool
2006-08
3XN

National Wildflower Centre, Knowsley, Merseyside
1998
Stephen Hodder Architects

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

New World Square, Princes Dock
2007-09
John Lyall Architects
£130m mixed-use waterfront development incl. 5-star hotel + 362 apartments
14-storey tower, prev. 25-storey tower
For Lead Asset Strategies

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

Liverpool Building

One Park West - Tower
2006-09
Cesar Pelli Architects

17/22 storeys high, for Grosvenor: Part of Liverpool One project

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

Liverpool Building

Paradise Street redevelopment - Masterplan
2006-09
BDP Architects
Reputedly the largest city centre regeneration project in Europe
Liverpool development - Liverpool One project

Paradise Street – bus station
2007
Wilkinson Eyre

Part of Liverpool One project

Park St / Grafton St develoment, Dingle
-
Union North
RIBA International Architecture Competition

Philharmonic Hotel
1898-90
Walter Thomas
Public House - Art Nouveau building

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

Port of Liverpool Building

Princes Dock Tower
2006-
RMJM Architects

Liverpool Tower

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


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

Liverpool building

Sefton Water Centre, Merseyside
2006-
BDP Architects
£7m approx.

Tate Gallery Liverpool
opened 1988; further work 1998
phase 1
James Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates Ltd
phase 2
Michael Wilford and Partners Ltd
phase 3
Bain + Bevington Architects Ltd

Tea Factory Bar and Kitchen, Ropewalks district
2003
Wells Mackereth
Former warehouse - conversion

Unity development, 20 Chapel St, Waterfront, central Liverpool
2006
AHMM

Unity Liverpool

University Sports Centre, Oxford Road
1963
Denys Lasdun

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

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

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