A TREAT for those who appreciate Liverpool architecture - photographs sent in by Margaret Wolfarth of Great Crosby showing the construction of Tower Building on The Strand. I particularly love the one of the sign announcing that the Liver Building...
I'm no sports fan. Anyone who's ever met me knows that. I just don't get it. Football, rugby, tennis, cricket, golf, curling, bog snorkelling, Indonesian nose wrestling - it all leaves me cold. Everything about sports is a complete bafflement...
I will put my hands up and admit I'm a bit of an architectural snob. Or at least, that I've been architecturally spoiled - growing up in Liverpool, which hosts the most listed buildings of a UK city outside of...
DID you know that if the city planners of the 60s had had their way, Newcastle could be an underground City? I learnt this and many other fascinating facts this weekend as I took part in a totally alternative City...
HOW do you sum up Liverpool's architectural heritage in just a few hundred pages? This was the task facing English Heritage's team of writers when they were asked to produce a series of books including Places of Health &...
Name: Glenn Howells Position: Founder, Glen Howells Architects Sector: Business 2007 Placing: 21...
The city council have said that whatever the result of English Heritage's attempt to get The Central Library listed, they still intend to knock it down. It's nice to have city planners with vision, but it's important to disagree...
Here's a poser for you all: what is great architecture? I must admit that I have no idea what the proper answer is and I'm afraid that I wasn't prepared to read the 19,800,000 entries which came up when I...
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