Museum of Liverpool and the Mann Island Development-Liverpool - 2014

Architect sketch of the Liverpool Museum scheme.

The Museum of Liverpool in Liverpool, England, is the newest addition to the National Museums Liverpool group having opened in 2011 replacing the former Museum of Liverpool Life

As the largest National Museum to be built in the UK in over 100 years, and situated on a UNESCO World Heritage Site next to Liverpool's famous 'Three Graces,' Principal Architect and Creative Director at 3XN Kim Herforth Nielsen was fully aware of the magnitude of the challenge, when it came to designing the new building - the Liverpool Museum.

The Museum of Liverpool is the largest newly-built national museum in the UK for more than 100 years. 

Pier Head ferry terminal, Liverpool (left). Aaroon on the run (right)

National Museums Liverpool (NML) engaged 3XN,  as the architect.

Museum of Liverpool - interior with spiral ramp.

Neptune Developments and Countryside Properties commissioned Broadway Malyan to design a mixed-use scheme adjacent to Liverpool’s ‘Three Graces’. The design will reconnect Liverpool’s City Centre to it’s historic waterfront via a sequence of three new public spaces, including a new covered space.

The scheme will consist of 363 apartments (50:50 split of 1 and 2 beds), 75,000sq ft of retail/leisure, 114,000sq ft of net office space and 20,000sq ft of covered public realm e.g. internal exhibition space. It will consist of 12 commercial storeys and 14 residential storeys. Our proposals comprise of three blocks and three new public spaces including a new covered public space. Two triangulated residential builds form large objects on the dock edge whilst a third linear commercial building reinforces the Strand’s streetscape. The sequence of new public spaces reconnects Liverpool’s city centre to its historic waterfront, whilst opening up access to previously enclosed areas of dock. The residential buildings overlapping roofscapes create valleys framing key views through to the ‘Three Graces’ whilst their apexes terminate vistas from the city centre and Chavasse Park. The residential buildings flush black cladding reflects the dark foreground dock water and creates a clear visual separation between the new scheme and the listed buildings beyond.

Mann Island Liverpool architects : Broadway Malyan

Ferry pier terminal.

The high profile site near Liverpool’s cherished ‘Three Graces’ again witnesses contemporary architecture, controversial even after Will Alsop’s exit.