Haworth Tompkins

'This is the most exciting regeneration development currently taking place in the country. It will tranform the city centre and is key to Liverpool's remarkable renaissance'

Sir Joe Dwer, Chair of Liverpool City Vision

Retail store

Paradise Street, Liverpool

Grosvenor are working in partnership with the City of Liverpool to regenerate an important part of the City Centre. The Paradise Project is a large retail led mixed use regeneration project covering 42-acres in the heart of the city and will provide new and refurbished buildings, pedestrian streets and spaces, embracing a wide range of uses and activities. The redevelopment will be complete in 2008 when Liverpool becomes European Capital of Culture.

In 2000 selected architectural practices were brought in early to design specific buildings in detail, particularly in areas where the master plan interfaced with existing buildings of special historical interest. We were asked to develop proposals for an important corner site overlooking the Grade I listed Bluecoat Chambers. The site marks the transition between two very different urban contexts of the busy Hanover Street and the quieter side street of College Lane. It was important that the architecture acknowledged the scale and materials of both settings in a building that marked this important urban corner.

The three storey building, which will contain a speciality department store and restaurant, is designed with a series of stepped terraces, that respect the setting of Bluecoat Chambers and the two Grade II listed warehouses on the site. An intimate garden courtyard and laneway between the warehouses and the new building create a pedestrian link through the block. A series of roof lanterns illuminate the second floor restaurant and provide high level detail to the Hanover Street facade. Production design of the project is now progressing and construction will start on site in January 2007.

PARADISE STREET, LIVERPOOL
Client: Grosvenor Estates
Value £4,500,000
Completion 2008