Liverpool Needs to Send a Clear Signal That Second-Rate Architecture Will No Longer Be Tolerated

Daily PostOctober 17, 2006

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LIVERPOOL is changing, and changing fast with new buildings appearing across the famous Mersey skyline. Only time will tell whether the drive to construct skyscrapers has been good for the city.

Today's regeneration, costing hundreds of millions of pounds, is a far cry from the days when city fathers were grateful for any old shed a developer was willing to throw up.

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Liverpool Needs to Send a Clear Signal That Second-Rate Architecture Will No Longer Be Tolerated

The result was that postwar Liverpool saw buildings constructed that made even the utilitarian boxes of Soviet Russia look like iconic architecture.

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