Radio City Tower- Skyline views from St John's Beacon
Besides Radio City Tower, Liverpool's skyline consist of the historical Liverpool Cathedral (101m), the futuristic Metropolitan Cathedral (82m) and in Albert Dock you find the "Three Graces", 3 significant beautiful landmark buildings in Albert Dock; Royal Liver Building from 1911 is the tallest (99m) and most famous one. Port of Liverpool Building and Cunard Building are the other ones. In Albert Dock you also find the 60m high ferris wheel Liverpool Wheel. The skyline of Liverpool has been booming recently. In the North end of the city centre, you find a new Central Business District (CBD) where a construction of highrises and small skyscrapers have appeared recently, many with interesting shapes. They have all been built in the 2000s, and transformed the skyline of Liverpool. The tallest buildings are the Beetham Tower West from 2007 (40 floors, Liverpool's tallest building) and Beetham Tower from 2004 (27 floors). Alexandra Tower, Unity Residential and 1 Princes Dock are other significant residential highrises from the mid 2000s in the area, and New Hall Place is an older terracotta coloured building from 1974. A wide boulevard, partly called the Strand, separates the business district from Albert Dock. The historic Our Lady and St Nicholas Church stands along the Strand. SkyHaus, two twin 29-storey residential towers, are u/c and will be among the 3 tallest buildings in the city. In the outskrirts you find lots of ugly 60s modernist so called "commie blocks" with around 15 floors each. |