Liverpool One: remaking a city centre
Liverpool One: remaking a city centre
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利物浦一号：重建市中心
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2009
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D. Littlefield
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利物浦是世界上最著名的贸易城市之一。码头头和利物大厦的景观已成为标志性建筑：它被称为大英帝国的第二大城市，并在 20 世纪 30 年代成为上海外滩的典范。 20世纪下半叶，这座城市经历了缓慢的衰落。工业关闭或迁移，战后建筑大多平庸，随着公民到更远的地方寻找就业机会，城市人口下降。当地人甚至开始到其他地方购物。 20 世纪 90 年代末，随着曼彻斯特的明星崛起，利物浦的心脏面临着变得在经济上变得无足轻重的危险。
1999 年，市议会向国际开发商提出了一项挑战，作为扭转这一趋势并鼓励人们再次到利物浦旅游、居住和投资的雄心勃勃计划的一部分。我们的愿景是重新构想和扩展市中心，重新思考主要购物区和城市历史悠久的码头之间广阔且未充分利用的空间。 47 名开发商表达了兴趣，经过严格的筛选过程，格罗夫纳获得了这份工作。
其结果是一个占地 42 英亩的综合体、零售主导的开发项目，体现了当代城市设计思维以及对地点、身份和规模理念的深刻敏感性。这个复杂的项目包含 30 多座单独设计的建筑，包括百货商店、公交车站、公寓、酒店和一个五英亩的公园，它是在一个雄心勃勃的时间表内以极高的质量门槛完成的。格罗夫纳及其 26 家建筑师事务所创建了一个全新且独特的利物浦市区。本书讲述了这个艰巨项目的故事、它的起源、它的设计和它的交付。
Liverpool is one of the most famous trading cities in the world. The view of its Pier Head with the Liver Building has become iconic: it has been called the second city of the British Empire and in the 1930s it became the model for Shanghai’s Bund. The city suffered a slow decline in the latter half of the 20th century; industries closed or moved away, postwar architecture was mostly mediocre and the city’s population fell as citizens sought employment further afield. Local people even began to shop elsewhere. As Manchester’s star ascended in the late 1990s, the heart of Liverpool was in danger of becoming economically inconsequential.
In 1999, the city council set out a challenge for international developers as part of an ambitious initiative to reverse this trend and encourage people to visit, live in and invest in Liverpool once again. The vision was for a reimagined and extended city centre, one that rethought the vast and under-used space between the principal shopping area and the city’s historic docks. Forty-seven developers expressed an interest and, after a rigorous selection process, the job went to Grosvenor.
The result is a 42-acre transformation, a mixed-use, retail-led development that embodies both contemporary urban design thinking and a deep sensitivity to ideas of place, identity and scale. Containing more than 30 individually designed buildings – including department stores, a bus station, apartments, hotels and a five acre park – this complex project was completed within an ambitious timetable to exceptionally high-quality thresholds. Grosvenor, and its 26 firms of architects, have created an entirely new, but uniquely Liverpudlian, urban district. This book tells the story of this Herculean project, its origins, its design and its delivery.