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Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram and Stirling Prize-winning architect Paul Monaghan – the Liverpool City Region’s Design Champion – have joined forces to support the Liverpool City Region’s first-ever festival showcasing architectural heritage and working to improve the buildings and public spaces of the future.
The inaugural Liverpool Architecture Festival – also supported by the Liverpool Architecture Society, RIBA and Liverpool Young Architects – will bring together the extensive architectural community to highlight outstanding work, share ideas and ultimately raise design and building quality standards.
The event will celebrate the region’s history and kickstart debates around contemporary issues, such as the revitalisation of high streets and the future of family homes.
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor of the Liverpool City Region, said:
The Liverpool Architecture Festival will be launched on 4 October by newly-elected President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), Simon Allford, whose practice, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, was behind the recently-opened Bereavement Centre at Alder Hey Hospital.
It brings together, for the first time, practitioners and local authorities as part of long-term plans to develop a unified and cohesive regional voice around the built environment.
Paul Monaghan
Paul Monaghan, Liverpool City Region Design Champion, said:
A comprehensive two-week programme will present a series of lectures, workshops, walking and building tours, open studios, design competitions and a symposium on the potential listed buildings of the future.
Walking tours will highlight the work of celebrated architects, such as Herbert Rowse, famous for designing prominent buildings including Hope Street’s Philharmonic Hall as well as the India Buildings and Martins Bank, on Water Street.
Modernist architecture, ranging from the University of Liverpool campus to the historic business district, will be celebrated with tours hosted by Dominic Wilkinson, of the Modernist Society.
Building tours by the Liverpool Architecture Society will see architects present their work to other architects, exchanging ideas and sparking debate.
Liverpool Architecture Society building tour
The Future Listings event will see six presenters, including conservation officers and private practitioners, make the case for adding a currently unlisted building to the protected register.
As part of the city region’s spatial development strategy, a competition has been launched to design a Post-Covid Town House with a first prize of £4,000 and £1,000 to the runner up.
Architects will present design ideas associated with reimagining The High Street to a judging panel of local planners, urban designers and conservation officers as part of the Design Charette.
The festival will come to a close with architecture studios opening their doors, allowing for a behind the curtain look into how practices undertake their work.
Mathew Giles, Founder, and co-Director of the Liverpool Architecture Festival, said:
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