Glass Facade Reflection, Liverpool Waterfront

9 October 2019 · Liverpool

A contemporary curtain wall on Liverpool's waterfront does double duty as a mirror — the Port of Liverpool Building's Edwardian baroque facade pressed flat into the glass, a century of civic ambition compressed into a single frame. The words 'Creative, Cultural, Lively – Liverpool' sit across the reflection in plain white type, the city naming itself against its own history. Modern architecture and old-new architectural dialogue rarely state their argument this legibly.