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Liverpool ONE is a shopping, residential and leisure complex in Liverpool, England.
The project, previously known as The Paradise Project, involved the redevelopment of 42 acres (170,000 m²) of underutilised land in Liverpool city centre. It is a retail led development, anchored by department stores Debenhams and John Lewis, with additional elements including leisure facilities (anchored by a 14-screen Odeon cinema and 36-hole adventure golfcentre), apartments, offices, public open space and transport improvements. The completion of Liverpool ONE has significantly boosted the local economy as well as lifted Liverpool into the top five most popular retail destinations in the UK. Liverpool ONE is the largest open air shopping centre in the United Kingdom and the 5th largest overall. Each store was created by a different architect, therefore leading to quite stark differences between some buildings, this is one way in which Liverpool ONE differentiates itself from other shopping centres.
The majority of the development was opened in phases on 29 May 2008 and 1 October 2008, during Liverpool's year as European Capital of Culture, whilst the final residential units opened in early 2009. The cost of construction associated with the project was £500 million, with a total investment value of £920 million.
Background
In the summer of 1998, Healey & Baker's Development Team, which is now owned by Cushman & Wakefield, were appointed by Liverpool City Council to conduct a retail study of the Liverpool City Centre for the replacement Unitary Development Plan. The purpose of the study was to enable the Council to identify ways of protecting and improving the City Centre and also to find out why the City Centre was perceived as unattractive to new high quality retailers. Cushman & Wakefield's study revealed that Liverpool's reputation as a regional shopping centre was under serious threat, however the study underlined that a feasible scheme and redevelopment site existed within the heart of the city.
Cushman & Wakefield recommended a radical City Centre re-development of over 42 acres (170,000 m2), which would represent the largest city centre development in Europe since the post-war reconstruction.
In April 1999, Liverpool City Council passed a resolution for comprehensive redevelopment of the Paradise Street Area, which consisted of the area bound by Strand Street, the Combined Courts Centre, Lord Street, Church Street, Hanover Street and Liver Street. The area contained Chavasse Park, the Paradise Street Bus Station and NCP Car Park, Quiggins, the Moat House Hotel, Canning Place Fire Station and BBC Radio Merseyside. There were also large areas of wasteland, some used as car parks.
In March 2000, after a series of technical workshops, Liverpool City Council selected the Duke of Westminster's Grosvenor Group as developer. The Development Agreement between the council and Grosvenor was signed in January 2003.
As a result of the technical workshops, it became apparent to Cushman & Wakefield that whilst the boundary of the PSDA was appropriate, the boundary needed to be extended and more clearly defined. Cushman & Wakefield proposed that two Mixed Use Extension Areas be identified to the West and East of the PSDA, including the sites of Chavasse Park/ Canning Place, together with an area across Hanover Street extending into Rope Walks.
The Government Office for the North West (GONW) agreed with Cushman & Wakefield that the Unitary Development Plan needed revisiting and the City Council was understandably reluctant given it had just completed the UDP Inquiry. The proposals were further attacked by a competing 60,000 sq ft (5,600 m2) scheme.
Following further consideration by Members, the revised PSDA Planning Framework incorporating the mixed use extension areas was issued for consultation in May 2000. The Council subsequently resolved to incorporate the PSDA Planning Framework into the emerging Unitary Development Plan. This necessitated a further public inquiry and consultation period. Three years later Cushman & Wakefield secured the Unitary Development Plan changes sought and defeated the opposition's appeal.
In December 2003, Grosvenor selected Laing O'Rourke as construction partner.
BDP designed the masterplan for Liverpool ONE which, in 2009, was nominated for the RIBA Stirling Prize. This is the first time a masterplan, rather than one particular building, has been nominated for the prize.
The 42 acre site was designed to consist of 1.4 million sq. feet of retail space, a 14-screen multiplex cinema and 230,000 sq. feet of restaurants, cafes and bars in addition to 600 new apartments, two hotels, offices, a five-acre park and a transport interchange. BDP integrated these features and linked the 40 new buildings designed by over 20 different architects.
The same scene in 2006. Smartened up but not so visually interesting. I do wish modern bricks were a little less homogeneous in their appearance. Look at the stone setts, which are original; every one is an individual and, in the mass, they give a lively, varied texture. Now look at the walls, especially the one on the left, with its orangeade colour and featureless appearance.
Guitar Showcase, an independent music store, has been in business at 3090 South Bascom Avenue in San Jose, California for more than 50 years. The store was founded in 1965.
The main building is about to be torn down, and replaced with a housing development that's sorely needed in this area.
Guitar Showcase will continue to operate for some time from a second, adjacent building that they built in the late 1980s.
You can see other photos of the outside of the existing building and its neon sign here:
Here's a link to a story about this project published by the San Jose Mercury News in 2019:
www.mercurynews.com/2019/10/07/affordable-home-builder-bu...
Guitar Showcase (store web site):
What was left of Dundee's old West Port was saved from demolition in the 1980s and became part of the Blackness Project under the auspices of the Scottish Development Agency. I think there were certain 'issues' which resulted in the block at number 48 remaining untouched for some time, while the buildings on either side received a facelift.
The redevelopment of the Twin Sails wharf site has started, with the area being fenced off. The separate building at 23 West Quay Road is also being knocked down.
I've been taking photos of this area for a few years now and I think that this will be luxury appartments. With everything going on with the economy at the moment it makes me wonder if they've missed the boat with property speculation.
West Quay Road 29.09.2022
Beautiful redevelopment of former Grade II listed town hall incorporating sensitive contemporary design complementing the original Edwardian/Art Deco features. A modern extension is covered in a metal laser-cut 'skin', in a pattern inspired by the Art Deco metal ornamentation still evident in the remaining council chamber. RIBA Award Winner 2011.
1939: inside, the furnishings were a triumph of what Pevsner, the Architectural Bible of Britain called a "subtle but expensive Deco style": Australian walnut wood panelling in the council chamber, mahogany panelling for the mayoral office, marble to line the new staircase, even the brass grilles for air vents exemplify the builders’ attention to beauty in every detail. Plans to ornament more rooms were interrupted by the outbreak of war.
The building was opened in 1910 by Mayor Charles Fox. As well as the beautiful façade in fine stone, complete with tower and cupola, it was adorned by several sculptures commissioned from Henry Poole. Inside, the Hall was sumptuously decorated, using green and white marble panels on both floor and walls for the grand entrance-hall and imposing staircase. Many of the walls had oak wainscoting while the floors were made of polished teak and the plasterwork decoration was exceptionally fine. The decorative leaded windows contained stained-glass panels with references to famous legends of the area.
Architects:
Percy Robinson & W Alban Jones/ECP
Monson/Rare (refurb)
Year 1909/1939/2010
Source: www.londonopenhouse.org/london/search/factsheet.asp?ftloh...
One of the three recently completed ponds at the park area at Rennaisance Square in Marlton NJ - which will be connected with paved paths lined with benches, barbeque picnic areas and a playground with play equipment. There are elevations that hide Route 70 from the park area in some places along the path. A dog park is also planned.
The factory on the left side of Thrissell Street was still standing on Saturday 17th May 1980, but the houses have been gone from the right-hand side for five-and-a-half years. In the meantime Easton Sports Centre has arisen at the far end, extending across to Stanley Street, off right. Continued next picture...
Standing at 59 Handford Road the Handford Cottage pub closed in 1974 and was used by neighbouring VA Marriot Builders for a number of years as storage and workshops until VA Marriott also closed in early 2011 and the whole site was cleared at the end of 2011 including the demolition of the Handford Cottage pub (which was demolished in just one day) for the construction of a new McCarthy and Stone assisted living complex for the over 70s which opened in 2013.
The Three Jolly Sailors pub on the opposite side of the road was demolished the following year at the end of 2012.
In about 1975 the planners repented of their action in demolishing the houses in Christmas Street and decided to re-enclose the bottom of Christmas Steps. I suppose they thought that this would make everything alright but, unfortunately, once you have demolished 400-year old buildings you can only replace them with something new ...and in the late 20th century this meant something worse. The building on the left lost about a third of its length to provide a car turning space at the bottom of the street and suffered a refurbishment in the "post modern" style. A fake repro gas light, with electric bulb, now marks the position of the old hybrid lamp-post.
In 1958 British Railways (under the British Transport Commission's Modernisation Plan) endowed Dundee (Tay Bridge) station with a new glass-fronted booking hall facing South Union Street.
This confirmed the low-level station as the city's principal rail terminal. A few months later Dundee East station, former terminus of the Dundee and Arbroath Joint Railway, was closed down. Then, in 1965, the impressive Dundee West station succumbed to the Beeching cuts and the advance of the inner ring road.
The 1958 booking hall at Tay Bridge station had an attractive, Continental ambience and, with proper care and attention, might have served for many years. However, by the 1980s it was shabby and in need of refurbishment. The building was stripped back to its framework before being re-clad and re-glazed.
ScotRail's well-intentioned modernisation efforts of the day were often spectacularly tacky and vulgar: this example probably tops the list. It looked dated even at the time and became shabby even quicker than its predecessor. The building was demolished in 2013 to make way for a new entrance block for what remains—and sadly looks like remaining—a desperately inadequate station.
The view along Church Street is now blocked by the back of the Novotel hotel, whose front is in Victoria Street. The surface of the street, which retained setts in 1981, has now been re-laid with visually barren replacements made from some sort of ersatz stone. To judge from that "artist's impression" on the hoarding on the right, we are in for a further round of new building.
I don't remember seeing the diagonal street from Grove to Fulton between Franklin and Gough on any other maps.
Several decades ago I'd be standing in the heart of a beautiful station with a sprawling yard of trackage and busy passengers moving about. That beautiful station was torn down many years before I was around and replaced with a 'beautiful' strip mall. Now a jail complex is on the other side of the tracks, adding greatly to the 'beauty' of this location. Sometimes I feel I was born a few years too late... but we make due with what we have. WAPO is finishing the last few miles of its trek that began the night before, rolling a bit later than the normal early AM departure and getting into Rigby in time for lunch. Seen by Congress an St. John Street in Portland.
Demolition and redevelopment of St James shopping centre and former New St Andrew's House - government offices for the Scottish Office, in Edinburgh, Scotland. Designed by Burke Martin Partnership in 1964 and completed by architects Ian G Cooke and Hugh Martin of Hugh Martin & Partners.
Laing O’Rourke is the main contractor for the Edinburgh St James project. The construction phase began on 17 October 2016, with the closure of the St James Shopping Centre and the beginning of its demolition, which the developers anticipate will take around 18 months. The retail and leisure element is to complete in 2020, followed by full scheme completion in 2021.
Demolition and redevelopment:
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/john-lewis-scraps-st-...
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/timetable-set-for-st-...
Taken with a Nikon Pronea-S camera in week 225 of my 52 film cameras in 52 weeks project:
www.flickr.com/photos/tony_kemplen/collections/72157623113584240
The Nikon Pronea-S is the second APS camera that I have used. The APS (Advanced Photo System) was introduced in 1996, it used 24mm wide film, and had provisions for three different aspect ratios to be selected, though the negative always recorded the full frame, and the different formats were implemented at the printing stage, with data being read from the film to tell the machines which aspect to use.
APS was a short lived format as soon after it was introduced digital cameras started to become more affordable, and the non-technically minded snap shooter, for whom the APS system was ideal, soon switched to digital. The film is no longer made, but is still fairly easy to find online. This Fujicolor Nexia A200 colour negative film was in the camera when I found it in a charity shop, only the first few frames had been used. I adapted one of my 35mm spirals to take the 24mm wide film, and developed it in the Tetenal C41 kit.
Unlike the Minolta APS SLR that I used recently, the Nikon accepts all the Nikon mount lenses, so I was able to use my 18-200mm VR lens which is made for the smaller than full frame DSLRs, there is some vignetting at the wide angle end of the range, but otherwise the lens works perfectly with the APS negative size.
Fairfax House has gone and the car park of the Galleries shopping centre stands in its place. Well grown trees now line the street.
18 – John L & Mary A Matheson Residence. 2067 S Hobart Blvd. 1909, Robert L Rohrig, Builder: Los Angeles Planing Mill Company.
The Matheson Mansion is currently (2013) threatened by redevelopment. When West Adams Heights was included in the Harvard Heights HPOZ, this house was listed as a “Noncontributing Structure,” because it was assumed the façade had been remodeled far beyond its original intent. In fact, aside from new windows and some minor elevation changes it looks much as it did when built, according to neighborhood preservationists trying to save the structure. The house suffered a devastating fire in the upper floors, when the elderly resident left a space heater unattended. Even worse, the house is still spot zoned R4 (the designation for an apartment building). Even though the original fixtures and furniture have been sold at auction, as the family prepared for the sale of the house, the character of this impressive mansion still shows through. Windows of stained art glass remain in the back of the house, which are probably Judson Studio glass, as well as remnants of the original and extensive gardens, most-likely designed by an expert landscaper like A E Hanson. The smoke and water-damaged interior reveals a rich and well thought-out design of a master architect. Hopefully, a buyer with a preservation mindset can be found for this house. John L Matheson was a merchant in early Los Angeles, dealing in men’s and women’s clothing and furnishings from a shop at 301-303 South Broadway.
West Adams Heights
“Nowadays we scarcely notice the high stone gates which mark the entrances on Hobart, Harvard, and Oxford streets, south of Washington Boulevard. For one thing, the traffic is too heavy, too swift; and then, again, the gates have been obscured by intrusions of shops and stores. At the base of the stone pillars appears the inscription “West Adams Heights.” There was a time when these entranceways were formidable and haughty, for they marked the ways to one of the first elite residential areas in Los Angeles. . . In the unplanned early-day chaos of Los Angeles, West Adams Heights was obviously something very special, an island in an ocean of bungalows—approachable, but withdrawn and reclusive—one of the few surviving examples of planned urban elegance of the turn of the century.”
- Carey McWilliams, “The Evolution of Sugar Hill,” Script, March, 1949: 30.
Today West Adams Heights is still obviously something special. The past sixty years, however, have not been kind. In 1963 the Santa Monica Freeway cut through the heart of West Adams Heights, dividing the neighborhood, obscuring its continuity. In the 1970’s the city paved over the red brick streets and removed the ornate street lighting. After the neighborhood’s zoning was changed to a higher density, overzealous developers claimed several mansions for apartment buildings. Despite these challenges, however, “The Heights,” as the area was once known, has managed to regain some of its former elegance.
The West Adams Heights tract was laid out in 1902, in what was then a wheat field on the western edge of town. Although the freeway now creates an artificial barrier, the original neighborhood boundaries were Adams Boulevard, La Salle Ave, Washington Boulevard, and Western Avenue. Costly improvements were integrated into the development, such as 75-food wide boulevards (which were some of the first contoured streets not to follow the city grid), lots elevated from the sidewalk, ornate street lighting, and large granite monuments with red-brass electroliers at the entrance to every street. These upgrades increased the lot values, which helped ensure the tract would be an enclave for the elite.
One early real estate ad characterized the neighborhood stating: “West Adams Heights needs no introduction to the public: it is already recognized as being far superior to any other tract. Its high and slightly location, its beautiful view of the city and mountains make t a property unequaled by any other in the city.”
The early residents’ were required to sign a detailed restrictive covenant. This hand-written document required property owners to build a “first-class residence,” of at least two stories, costing no less than two-thousand dollars (at a time when a respectable home could be built for a quarter of that amount, including the land), and built no less than thirty-five feet from the property’s primary boundary. Common in early twentieth century, another clause excluded residents from selling or leasing their properties to non-Caucasians.
By the mid 1930’s, however, most of the restrictions had expired. Between 1938 and 1945 many prominent African-Americans began to make “The Heights” their home. According to Carey McWilliams, West Adams Heights became known “Far and wide as the famous Sugar Hill section of Los Angeles,” and enjoyed a clear preeminence over Washington’s smart Le Droit Park, St. Louis’s Enright Street, West Philadelphia, Chicago’s Westchester, and Harlem’s fabulous Sugar Hill.
West Adams Heights, now also known as Sugar Hill, played a major role in the Civil Rights movement in Los Angeles. In 1938 Norman Houston, president of the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company, and an African-American, purchased a home at 2211 South Hobart Boulevard. Legal Action from eight homeowners quickly ensued. During that period, other prominent African-Americans began to make Sugar Hill their home – including actress Hattie McDaniels, dentists John and Vada Summerville, actress Louise Beavers, band leader Johnny Otis, and performers Pearl Baily and Ethel Waters, and many more. On December 6, 1945, the “Sugar Hill Cases” were heard before Judge Thurmond Clark, in LA Superior Court. He made history by become the first judge in America to use the 14th Amendment to disallow the enforcement of covenant race restrictions. The Los Angeles Sentinel quoted Judge Clark: “This court is of the opinion that it is time that [African-Americans] are accorded, without reservations and evasions, the full rights guaranteed them under the 14th Amendment.” Gradually, over the last century people of nearly ever background have made historic West Adams their home.
The northern end of West Adams Heights is now protected as part of the Harvard Heights Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ). The Historic West Adams area of Los Angeles (which includes West Adams Heights) boasts the highest concentration of turn-of-the-century homes west of the Mississippi, as well as the highest concentration of National Historic Landmarks, National Register of Historic Places, National Historic Districts, State Historic Landmarks, Los Angeles Cultural-Historic Monuments, and Historic Preservation Overlay Zones in the city. The entirety of West Adams Heights should be nominated as a National Register Historic District, for the quality of homes, the prominence of the architects, notoriety of the people who lived in the neighborhood, and the role it played in civil rights.
Perhaps a quote adapted from a fireplace mantle in the Frederick Rindge mansion best symbolizes the optimism which exists in West Adams: “California Shall be Ours as Long as the Stars Remain.”
I came across these whilst having a clear-out of my books. New Sights of London was, I regret to record, stolen from the library of Staple Hill Secondary Modern School for Boys, whose stamp of ownership may still be seen on some of the pages. At the age of 15 or so, I was so besotted with London, modern architecture, planning and traffic schemes, that I was driven to this act of petty criminality. Now it can be told ...as they used to say in the News of the World. This interest in grandiose planning schemes and colossal rebuildings was one of several correspondences I noticed between my own character and that of the late Adolf Hitler. I devised a new capital city ...that dream of megalomaniacs down through the ages... to be built on the Somerset Levels, and began mapping the whole thing in great detail, down to trees and lamp posts. I remember it was to be centred on Bridgwater. That town was, of course, to be entirely swept away but commemorated in the name of the new metropolis, which I modestly declined to name after myself. Then there was my underground railway for Bristol. I remember little of this except that it must have been a very extensive system, for there was a station at Castle Combe.
At 18 there is nothing you hate so much as the things you liked at 15. By the time I bought Bristol of the Future I had become an architectural conservative, indeed a reactionary ...a conservationist ten years before "conservation" was invented. When it was invented I didn't care for it. "Never happy", as Mrs Bentos sometimes remarks.
The London booklet was produced by the LCC, which did not long survive its publication, being superseded by the GLC in about 1967 I think. It is quite an interesting historical document, being written at the zenith of the property boom, when everyone thought that the large-scale redevelopment of our cities was an urgent and humane necessity. It contains maps of central London and some of the suburbs, directing the modern architecture slueth to such "new sights" as C&A Modes, Oxford Street, Bowater House, Knightsbridge, or Tulse Hill Secondary School.
The Bristol book was a summary of the City Council's 1966 Development Plan. A few of its proposals did materialise, if only in modified form, but mostly, thank goodness, they did not. Fragments of the Outer Circuit Road were built, and the lower part of Totterdown was cleared to make way for it, but nothing at all came of its western half, with multi-level interchanges at the bottom of Jacob's Wells Road and at Tyndall's Park.
This photo was taken from Stoke Quay looking across the New Cut towards what is now known as Regatta Quay, formerly known as Albion Wharf and Common Quay.
The unfinished building to the right in the lower photo, locally nicknamed the "Wine Rack", has recently be acquired from the receivers of the original developers, and is due to be completed by it's new owners during 2015, mainly as residential apartments, with commercial units at ground level.
A northwest view of Friars Road with the newly completed Willis Faber Building in the background and St Nicholas Church to. right. The building on the left is Henleys car showrooms (formerly Lock and Stagg). A 3 story apartment development has replaced the car showrooms. The road layout has been changed and this is now part of Franciscan Way. The section of Franciscan Way to the right of the junction in front of Willis Faber was closed off and converted into Cromwell Square car park and all traffic routed along this section of road to the gyratory system in front of the Novotel. This Collection was donated by Dr Steeds.
n 1939 Dr Roger Steeds, general practitioner joined the three Staddon brothers who were in practice at 6 Silent Street. Just before the war, the building was threatened with demolition because of road widening. The practice moved to 18 Silent Street. It was said to be a purpose built building with three consulting rooms, dispensary, reception area and waiting room and caretaker’s flat. However, the building was wrecked by a bomb during the war but re-erected in 1946. After the war as each of the Staddon brothers retired, they were replaced in turn by Dr Roy Webb, Dr Sheila Hines and Dr Bunt Drabble. Dr Steeds retired In 1966.