Did you know you can visit these?
Liverpool Vision's ground floor space is open to the public, hosting regular public exhibits, events and talks.

For example, an exhibition of the Paradise St development proposals is on display there until March next Year. Contact them for more details..or just pop in!

Also, we recently found out that the Radio City Tower is actually open for regular tours. For more info go to. The views from the top are spectacular, encompassing the whole Bay Area!

The city's long wait for an Architecture Centre came to an end with the opening of CUBE Liverpool at the Tea Factory on 12th December.
David Adjaye's Asymmetric Chamber - is the first exhibition and it's well worth a peek if you're passing down Wood Street!


A selection of stills from 'The Word in One City'

..a short movie made about Downtown Liverpool by the Liverpool company BTM Media Ian Wadkins has told us a streamable version will be available for this site soon. Special thanks to Ian, also Andy Taylor and Alan Wadkin.

Policy priority must be to look!
Two articles highlight the fundamental wealth generating role of micro business to mainstream growth and why support geared to maximising new business must be immediately taken up in Liverpool.

The culture of grant dependence does no good for culture?An interesting piece from Liverpool on the dangers of public agencies leading cultural development, especially when dependent on milking grants.

A New York story again gives us an idea of how art, architecture, culture and the city meld, creating the great metropolitan experiences we crave for.


'BID' to improve Downtown Liverpool gaining momentum
As reported on this site a number of times, Liverpool City Council have teamed up with other agencies, business operators and property owners/managers to improve service delivery, management and the environment of the Church St district of Downtown.

This National pilot hopes to impact in a similar way to that of the Business Improvement District's in many American cities.

It is called 'City Central BID. If successful we hope it is rolled out to other commercial downtown neighbourhoods.

'Posturing' ends as Cloud gets the go ahead

Will Alsop's Cloud

Will Alsop's scheme for the Pierhead is a step nearer today after NWDA commited £43m toward the £230m+, culture led, mixed use scheme.

The consensus downtown is that money has always been committed to deliver the sceme and recent 'speculation over the schemes viability' (and the terribly negative press reports it generated Internationally) resulted from 'posturing' by the many public agencies as they attempt to impress which of them 'Bosses the City'.

Our advice would be that NONE of them should. Partnerships and facilitation please...not diktat!

Will Alsop has promised that the buildings would be ready in time for 2008. Bring it on!

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