Radio City Tower Rising Above Liverpool City Centre

9 October 2019 · Liverpool

Radio City Tower — St Johns Beacon — pushes straight up from the middle of Liverpool city centre, its concrete stem and disc-shaped head cutting a clean vertical against a sky full of moving cloud. At street level the picture is messier: a pedestrianised square, a blue-wrapped St Johns Shopping Centre blaring a digital billboard, two people mid-pause going nowhere in particular. The tower earns its authority by ignoring all of it — permanent geometry against a city in constant commercial noise.