Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre Review

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Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre ReviewI thought potential USA readers of this book would be interested in my UK review. What is striking from a US perspective is Liverpool's insistence on making redevelopment INTEGRAL to existing architecture and living space. And they succeeded. The Liverpool One project was conceived in order to attract wealthy shoppers who had become accustomed to shopping in the suburbs and not Liverpool City centre. And also to bring the world closer to its heart.
Having been impressed over the recent years with Liverpool's phoenix-like rejuvenation I was keen to get closer to the story and I do love a good photograph. Enter David Littlefield's Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre I was also drawn by the second-hand price (nearly half list for Amazon UK) due to the 'damage' on the front cover as shown in video.
Whilst I have only dipped-into the text of the book I have viewed all photographs. So far I have learned that the Head of M&S in Manchester after the bomb redevelopment became the Head of John Lewis from scratch at Liverpool One. I like the idea that Mens clothing was put ground floor because 'men are lazy' and business immediately boomed. This analysis ties with my favorite tv program of the last few years: Mad Men.
The history behind the project is well covered but concise. I had not thought of Chester as the shopping centre giving Liverpool fierce competition. The contrast with Manchester is very interesting. They had a definite focus against the all-singing, all-dancing Trafford Centre where Liverpool's attention was more long-term problems. Interesting also that Liverpool did have a tram scheme but it was vetoed by national government.
What is also transparent is that city councils are useful. Radical. Brave. Focused. Real. This is Liverpool city council we are talking about. In-tune with government initiatives. Phew. And target driven!
There are four areas of the Liverpool Remaking that are not covered, or at least not photographed, in this book. One is the major alterations to Lime Street station frontage, two is the Pier head café and Museum and canal, three I can only describe as the black glass apartment building near the Pier head and four, the massive Hilton (?) hotel building opposite the Royal Court. I tacked-on some pictures of my own in my video of some of these omissions which are probably outside the Liverpool One development/Grosvenor contract.
It's a book I will enjoy reading and certainly do enjoy owning. I recommend anyone to visit Liverpool. It has the clean lines of modern architecture and lots of nooks and crannies, unexpected visuals that will keep you walking. Bring your camera. And plenty of smiles.
Liverpool One: Remaking a City Centre OverviewLiverpool is one of the most famous trading cities in the world. The view of its Pier Head with the Liver Building has become iconic: it has been called the second city of the British Empire and in the 1930s it became the model for Shanghai's Bund. The city suffered a slow decline in the latter half of the 20th century; industries closed or moved away, postwar architecture was mostly mediocre and the city's population fell as citizens sought employment further afield. Local people even began to shop elsewhere. As Manchester's star ascended in the late 1990s, the heart of Liverpool was in danger of becoming economically inconsequential.
In 1999, the city council set out a challenge for international developers as part of an ambitious initiative to reverse this trend and encourage people to visit, live in and invest in Liverpool once again. The vision was for a reimagined and extended city centre, one that rethought the vast and under-used space between the principal shopping area and the city's historic docks. Forty-seven developers expressed an interest and, after a rigorous selection process, the job went to Grosvenor.
The result is a 42-acre transformation, a mixed-use, retail-led development that embodies both contemporary urban design thinking and a deep sensitivity to ideas of place, identity and scale. Containing more than 30 individually designed buildings – including department stores, a bus station, apartments, hotels and a five acre park – this complex project was completed within an ambitious timetable to exceptionally high-quality thresholds. Grosvenor, and its 26 firms of architects, have created an entirely new, but uniquely Liverpudlian, urban district. This book tells the story of this Herculean project, its origins, its design and its delivery.


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