Glass Tower and Baroque Dome, Liverpool

9 October 2019 · Liverpool

A contemporary glass curtain wall cuts a hard diagonal across the frame, its dark reflective panels pressing against a heavy overcast sky. In the lower right, a Baroque dome holds its ground — ornate stone against cold glass, civic confidence from two different centuries sharing the same Liverpool skyline. Birds drift between them, indifferent to the argument below. The compression of old and new in a single upward perspective is what makes this city worth pointing a camera at.