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The Triad in Bootle is the tallest building in urban Liverpool outside the city centre. The list below contains the tallest buildings in the Liverpool Urban Area and the Wirral. This term is used by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to denote the urban area around Liverpool. [110]
The Royal Liver Building is one of the most recognisable landmarks in the city of Liverpool with its two fabled Liver Birds, which watch over the city and the sea. Legend has it that if the two birds were to fly away, the city would cease to exist. The Liver Birds are 5.5 m (18 ft) high. Their added height gives the Royal Liver Building an ...
Description. [] With an architectural height of 140 metres (459 ft) and 40 floors, West Tower is the tallest building in Liverpool. Nationwide, it is ranked at joint 38th tallest in the United Kingdom but is the tallest in the country outside of Greater London and Greater Manchester. The building commands views across the city, over the Mersey ...
St Johns Beacon (also known as the Radio City Tower) is a radio and observation tower in Liverpool, England. Designed by James A. Roberts Associates, it was built in 1969 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II. The tower is 138 metres (453 ft) tall, [1] and is the second-tallest free-standing structure in Liverpool. It has a 10 m (33 ft) long antenna ...
Official name. Cunard Building. Designated. 12 July 1966. Reference no. 1052283. The Cunard Building is a Grade II* listed building in Liverpool, England. It is located at the Pier Head and along with the neighbouring Royal Liver Building and Port of Liverpool Building is one of Liverpool's Three Graces, which line the city's waterfront.
There developed in the late 1860s the concept of a 'ribbon of parks' [179] surrounding the centre of Liverpool; these were all paid for by the City Council: Newsham Park (1864–68; Grade II) by Edward Kemp; [180] Stanley Park (1870; Grade II) by Edward Kemp, buildings for the park were designed by the corporation surveyor E.R. Robson; [181] Sefton Park (1867–1872; Grade I) by Édouard ...
St George's Hall, Liverpool. / 53.4086; -2.9801. St George's Hall is a building on St George's Place, opposite Lime Street railway station in the centre of Liverpool, England. [1] [2] [3] Opened in 1854, it is a Neoclassical building which contains concert halls and law courts, and is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a ...
There are over 2,500 listed buildings in Liverpool (of which 27 are Grade I listed and 85 are Grade II* listed). [6] The city also has a greater number of public sculptures than any other location in the United Kingdom aside from Westminster [7] and more Georgian houses than the city of Bath. [8]