Wouldn’t you think they would be a little cautious proclaiming another new skyscraper this time a 54 storey stretched shoebox in the sky.... on a site of an old pub that only had enough room for a couple of billiard tables. The old King Edward site. This is the World Heritage Site Buffer Zone. http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/tallest-tower-in-liverpool-redesigned-again/5213922.article
But both the Government’s architecture watchdog CABE and neighbouring landowner Peel objected. The application was withdrawn and never went to planning committee. http://www.cabe.org.uk/design-review/king-edward-street read the full review.
Now the King Edward consortium is optimistic of getting widespread approval.
They have been in prolonged talks with Liverpool Vision and Liverpool City Council over how the tower will fit into the landscape and work with future projects like Peel’s Liverpool Waters.
Last week, CABE was shown the revised plans and is expected to publish its official response in the coming weeks.
Its reaction to the first designs was damning and it urged the council to throw them out.
It said while it agreed with the principle of putting a tall building on the run-down site, the old plans had “confused architectural expression” and “low ambitions for sustainability”.
Well it is strange that Peel object as their plans to cancel the Panamax Terminal and concentrate on building blocks of flats that nobody wants to live in is exactly the same lack of common sense that we see here. Where are all the people coming from to fill them?
Architects Leach Rhodes Walker, who were also behind Liverpool’s Malmaison hotel, are being asked to include a high-level restaurant with a public viewing deck.
Jonothan Brown a council member of the Merseyside Civic Society is working for town planners doing landscaping….so there will be no objections from them.
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Can I put a plan into to have you lot demolished? You are a bunch of visionless philistines who lack even the smallest amount of imagination. It is people like you that have brought Liverpool to it's knees by trying to pickle it in aspic. You live in fear of change and do not have sufficent self control to appreciate the world around you, when there is anything close to you that might distract you from parroting the view of pevsener. As there is nothing written 50 years ago praising an as yet unbuilt building it must be without merit.
ReplyDeleteI love it personally,just what Liverpool needs!!
ReplyDeleteAre the comments moderated? Do you only alow the pro ones or did my last psting fail?
ReplyDeleteI think it's great, just what the city needs. It's just beautiful; the profile, the height etc, may help finally bring some life back to the north end.
ReplyDeleteThis tower is different and grabs attention, which is what is needed to project the city. It is in a cluster of modern buildings. It this was next to the old White Star Building it would be out of place and I would complain. However it is in the right place. No complaints and I like it.
ReplyDeleteWaterways.
And it shall be known as Blasphemy Tower.
ReplyDeleteFor when I saw the rear of the building with the curves, I thought well, not as bad as it could be going by recent carbuncles but then when I saw the complete mess at the front I cried out Jesus Christ! I don't know if it is the bits left over from the model of Will Alsops Cloud after it was kicked all round the Pier Head or it is some kids Transformer Robot that he couldn't complete and threw it on the floor. whatever...it did cause me to blaspheme. By Jove!
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/tallest-tower-in-liverpool-redesigned-again/5213922.article
ReplyDeletesee what the Architects journal comments say
I wonder what UNESCO's views would be on this.......if they have any. UNESCO were told this was credit crunched.
The Cabal of Downtown Liverpool will be all over this helping to promote it.
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