1939 – Express Building, Manchester
Architect: Sir Owen Williams
Sir Owen Williams’ impressive 1939 glass building for the Daily Express on Great Ancoats Street in the Northern Quarter was a stylistic copy of its sister building on Fleet Street,
1943 – Plan for Liverpool around Lutyen’s Cathedral
Architect: Edwin Lutyens
Lutyens’ unrealised vision for a re-arranged Liverpool centred around his uncompleted cathedral.
1963 – Pilkington, St. Helens, Lancashire
Architect: Fry Drew
The distinctive blue Pilkington Head Office,
1967 – Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
Architect: Frederick Gibberd
In 1930 Sir Edwin Lutyens (1869-1944) was commissioned to provide a design which would be an appropriate response to the Giles Gilbert Scott designed Neo-gothic Anglican cathedral then emerging at the other end of Hope Street.
2002 – Urbis, Manchester
Architect: Ian Simpson
Designed by the local firm Ian Simpson Architects and built in 2002,
