All This Useless Beauty

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All This Useless Beauty

We have, in Hamilton Square and others, some of the country’s finest public squares. So why have we abandoned them while other cities are rediscovering theirs?

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Liverpool’s Ghost Streets: Quakers Alley

How one of the city’s oldest streets is teetering on the edge of existence…

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Dale Street Scheme Gets Green Light

New hotel, car park and retail unit within Dale Street to reshape Liverpool’s World Heritage site. Cue outraged responses…

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The Shape of Things to Come?

What does the future of Liverpool look like? Black, angular and shiny? Stone-built, sturdy and Neo-Classical? Or somewhere in between? Urban designer Michael McDonough has a few ideas…

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Come on in, the Water’s Lovely

Will Wirral Waters enjoy its time in the sun, or will those skyscrapers seem like so many beached whales by 2040?

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You Probably Won’t Walk Alone

Act like a tourist, and take a walk on the river side this week. You might be surprised at what you discover.

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Mann Island – Here’s Your Chance

Here’s one for your diary - especially if you’ve seen our Total Eclipse of the Heart piece. Matt Brook, the man responsible for the Mann Island development (on behalf of Neptune Developments and Countryside Properties) will be talking about his “optimistic, people-orientated approach and passion for design” in a free talk on the 23rd June. [...]

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Keep On Truckin’

We love a peripatetic interactive architecture exhibition, we do. So imagine our delight to see the Architruck rumble back into the region as part of the RIBA Architecture Festival. The truck’s a mobile storehouse of building design goodness. Could it get any better? Well, yes, actually, it could. The Truck’s due to make an appearance [...]

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