Port of Liverpool Building and Museum of Liverpool, Pier Head

9 October 2019 · Liverpool

Two buildings, one street, a century of architectural ambition between them. The Edwardian dome of the Port of Liverpool Building anchors the left frame — stone, ornament, weight — while the black glass cube of the Museum of Liverpool cuts in from the right with nothing but edge and surface. A green double-decker bus threads between them under a flat overcast sky, and for a moment the whole argument of Liverpool's waterfront is in one frame: the city that built its wealth in stone, and the city that chose to say something different.