Comments on: Total Eclipse of the Heart

By: WayneColloon

WayneColloon — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:36:59 +0000

Good ol’ Wayne, reduced to a footnote on page 22 of the UNESCO report, which didn’t find fault in this… (snort)

By: dfasda

dfasda — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:11:28 +0000

What a stupid article that is… To start with you cannot compare the three graces to the Taj or any of the other wonders of the world, i cant see Sky sending Karl Pilkington down to come and see this wonder…

To the bloke who’s view is spoiled from the pub when he is looking out maybe he should be looking at the wide screen tv or generally engaging in conversation with people, but he is probably by himself so the view would have been his only company.

I need not say anything about Wayne and his one man ‘trust’.

The ‘view’ only exists from one side the south side. The view was taken away from the North End of Liverpool years ago. I could not hear any complaining when buildings were built to mask the view then. The fact is the city needed to build something there lets be honest most of the time with the weather being the way it is it is windy, wet and generally inhospitable. After the debacle and fall out from the cloud this building won. It is a bit like marmite you either love it or hate it. I have read accounts at how people were not overly impressed with the liver building when that was first built but that has stood the test of time and beyond.

This building is going no where. If you want to view the 3 graces go and see them (not in pub).

By: CHAS

CHAS — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:26:03 +0000

Liverpool preservation trust, HELLO Wyane is that you all on your lonesome my god man how do become a trust all by yourself. we are a growing dynamic city not an antiques shop get it.

By: Eye's Wide Open: Open Eye Gallery Opens | Sevenstreets

Eye's Wide Open: Open Eye Gallery Opens | Sevenstreets — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 19:08:41 +0000

[...] new gallery is most definitely worth the wait. For all the debate around the planning decisions and architectural choices, Open Eye makes Mann Island a destination in its own right that nicely bookends the cultural [...]

By: David

David — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:57:15 +0000

Agree. It was the last planning approval given by Doreen Jones. She said at the time : “This is a young architect and I think young architects should be given a chance”, before approving the development. Yeah, sure they should. Just not on a world stage. Maybe give them a chance somewhere less prominent first. Shameful.

By: oddjones

oddjones — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 12:48:28 +0000

What I don’t get is how it managed to get built without much complaint, given the uproar surrounding the Cloud and Museum of Liverpool – both of which are designs of real architectural merit, which don’t/wouldn’t have block(ed) the view of the three graces – The black box somehow seems to have “slipped in under the radar” and done everything that the naysayers said that the other two designs would do.

By: Old versus New I | Formidable Photography | Mark McGowan

Old versus New I | Formidable Photography | Mark McGowan — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:46:17 +0000

[...] – the waterfront has UNESCO World Heritage site status – local Liverpool gadabouts SevenStreets have mocked up a slideshow showing how the Mann Island development would look dumped in… and provoked quite strong positive and negative comments about the new [...]

By: MATTHEW

MATTHEW — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 13:43:17 +0000

Personally, I don’t have any complaints about them, other than I wish they’d be finished a bit sooner.

I think they’re an excellent contrast to the 3 Graces; it’s all a part of modernising the waterfront and I think people need to let go of the whole ‘classic Liverpool waterfront’ view, and accept that we can have other buildings. (I think Liverpool Waters is an amazing idea also, but that’s for another debate)

By: kj

kj — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 18:42:56 +0000

Make that three. In fact make that loads of people in the city who like Mann island. The view was pretty good before but I like its dynamism now. And me, and many others like me are sick of cranks like Wayne O’loon determined to drag our city back into the dark ages. Since when has margy Clarke been an arbiter of taste? The trouble is people who like these buildings are usually too busy getting on with there lives to post in things like this, so bitter old weirdos like Wayne dominant the debate. They are here. They are modern Liverpool, not crumbling empire Liverpool and I think we should embrace them. The new open eye gallery will be in there also. How great will that be? Maybe we could have had a better building, but I think the cranks would have dragged it down even quicker. Hopefully now this is the start of a dramatic new waterfront stretching to the northern docks.

By: David

David — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 16:11:10 +0000

It doesn’t necessarily mean they like ‘em tho does it! And let’s face it, it would be hard to do a walk around there and avoid them. *Sighs*