Liverpool Architecture

Campaigning for the Contemporary, City-Scale, Hi-Quality.
Fighting against Mediocrity, 'Heritagisation', Compromise.

Liverpool has always been a brash, confident and forward-looking city; a city of superlatives, essentially modern and this has been reflected in its great architecture and architectural innovations.

Liverpool's development tradition has always been to use the latest designs, best architects and cutting edge technologies.

The city has now regained confidence and has a surety in its future after many years of timidity. We believe this renewed confidence and vigour must be reflected in its attitude to new development downtown. The city's skyline must reflect it's 21st century role and aspirations, not be preserved in aspic as if our present buildings will remian the sum total of our future building stock. Contemporary design will be supported by DL where quality is self-evident - wherever new development is happening.

Downtown Liverpool is an organisation rooted in New Urbanism, we therefore campaign for the maximum mix and intensity of building we will also support developments which use the best architects, materials and facilities. One of our goals is to facilitate the city's landscape to continue evolving rather than stitching itself into a fictitious heritage netherworld. This is of course essential to Liverpool's image as well as it's ability to actually function as a dynamic, commercial city.

Whilst we assemble the core content of these pages, here is a run down of some of the teams working in the city at the present [Nov 2005]

Practice	Scheme	Progress
Glenn Howells Architects	[Lime Street Gateway]	planning granted
[Beetham Group -developer]	[West Tower]	on-site
Wilkinson Eyre	[Kings Dock]	on-site
BDP	[Paradise Street]	on-site
Arkheion	[Hatton Garden]	on-site
Brock Carmichael	[Ropewalks]	part completed
Aedas	[Old Hall Street]	completed
Austin-Smith:Lord	[Liverpool University Sports Centre]	completed
Cesar Pelli	[Paradise Street]	shortly on-site
Ian Simpson Architects	[Brunswick Quay Skyscraper]	planning refused
Atherden Fuller Leng	[LFC stadium]	planning granted, awaiting finance
BIQ Architecten	[Bluecoat Arts Centre]	on-site
RTKL Dublin	[Central Station tower]	awaiting planning
Alsop Architects	[Fourth Grace]	AXED July 04
Urban Initiatives	[Exchange Station masterplan]	in Outline Planning
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris	[Unity Twin Towers]	on-site
CZWG	[Herberts HQ]	on-site

We are currently developing this page, please bear with us as we assemble content.
Please also email us with news of contemporary, challenging or tall buildings that need our support.