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In 1907, the Royal Liver Group had over 6,000 employees. Given the need for larger premises, the company approved the construction of a new head office. The building was designed by Walter Aubrey Thomas; the foundation stone was laid on 11 May 1908 and just 3 years later, on 19 July 1911, the building was officially opened by Lord Sheffield. [5]
Royal Liver were then approached again by Royal London in February 2010. [4] Talks continued for some time, and the board of Royal Liver agreed the terms of a potential merger in April 2011. [5] The delegates of Royal Liver voted in favour of the merger at the AGM on 12 May 2011. [6] The transfer to Royal London was completed on 1 July 2011.
This is an office building on the site of the former Tower of Liverpool, with crenellated turrets providing a link to this. It is one of the earliest steel-framed buildings in the country, and is clad in white glazed terracotta. [4] [12] [13] II* Royal Liver Building: Pier Head, Liverpool
The three buildings are to the south of the Mann Island roadway, opposite the Port of Liverpool Building, and are numbered (from east to west) No.1, No.11 and No.15 Mann Island. No.15, next to the Museum of Liverpool , is called the Latitude building and No.11 is the Longitude building .
The design of New Hall Place is described as a brutalist response to the nearby Royal Liver Building in terms of massing and height. [3] New Hall Place is situated on Old Hall Street (one of Liverpool's main commercial and financial areas) and the lower three floors serve as the Capital Car Park — a 1,100 capacity secure guarded car park. [4]
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The building was constructed in 1906 [1] to a design by Walter Aubrey Thomas, who also designed the Royal Liver Building and Tower Buildings.It was originally symmetrical about a central turret, but the half of the building, the part extending towards North John Street, was destroyed by bombing in the Second World War. [1]
Since 2001–2002, three historical buildings at the Pier Head in Liverpool have been known as the "Three Graces": they are the Royal Liver Building (1908–11) by Walter Aubrey Thomas, the Cunard Building (1914–16) by Willinck & Thicknesse with Arthur J. Davis, and the Port of Liverpool Building (1903–07) by Briggs & Wolstenholme with ...