Who wants to see pictures of Verne Troyer in Liverpool?
What’s that? You want pictures of Verne Troyer riding around Liverpool on his tricycle thing?
What’s that? You want pictures of Verne Troyer riding around Liverpool on his tricycle thing?
Those of you who care about such things probably know already that death metal singer Michael Buble has been in town for a gig at the Echo Arena.
No more fan mail, please. I’m spending all of my time dealing with your bloody fan mail.
I’m feeling a little vindicated in my view that the new Merseytravel ferry terminal and Beatles Story outlet is badly situated and unsympathetic to its surroundings.
Others have been more forceful in their views, and now the building has won the Carbuncle Cup, an architecture magazine’s award for the worst new building. Incidentally, One Park West – a building I think may be worse – was also nominated.
The ferry building is described as ‘a shining example of bad architecture and bad planning’ on the Building Design website. As I’ve said before, what constitutes bad architecture is open to debate and not something I’m qualified to judge.
But it should have been clear all along that the siting of the building as it has appeared was problematic at best: in front of the three graces and slap bang in the middle of a UNESCO World Fricking Heritage site.