1934 – Mersey Tunnel Building, Liverpool
Architect: Herbert James Rowse
Constructed to contain both offices and ventilator equipment for the Queensway Tunnel. The tunnel entrances,
1934 – North John Street Ventilation Station, Liverpool
Architect: Herbert James Rowse
Architect’s sketch proposal for ventilation station on Mersey tunnel. Grade II Listed building.
1934 – Woodside Ventilation Station, Birkenhead, Lancashire
Architect: Herbert James Rowse
One of six such installations serving the Queensway Mersey Tunnel, the Woodside Ventilation Station stands 150 foot tall.
1939 – Daily Express Building, Manchester
Architect: Sir Owen Williams
Sir Owen Williams impressive 1939 glass building on Great Ancoats Street in the Northern Quarter was a 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. The cathedral would have been a massive classical/Byzantine structure in brick and granite that would have become the second-largest church in the world.
1963 – Pilkington, St. Helens, Lancashire
Architect: Fry Drew
The distinctive blue Pilkington Head Office, a Grade II listed building constructed in 1959-63 designed by Maxwell Fry and his wife Jane Drew.
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, Urbis is located at the heart of Manchester’s redeveloped Millennium Quarter.
