Brock Carmichael to design Liverpool’s King Edward Triangle
Working with planner Pegasus Group, the architect will draft the masterplan for the future tall buildings cluster from TJ Morris and Beetham.
The 5.7-acre King Edward Triangle sits between King Edward Street, Bath Street, and Paisley Street by the Liverpool waterfront. TJ Morris subsidiary KEIE has partnered with skyscraper developer Beetham Organsiation to transform the former industrial estate into a thriving mixed-use development.
Beetham chairman Hugh Frost, the man behind Manchester and Liverpool’s Beetham Towers, described the appointment of Pegasus Group and Brock Carmichael as “two of the most critical appointments we will make” for the project.
“…It’s good to have such capable people around me to help drive the project forward,” he said.
Brock Carmichael and Pegasus have already begun talks with Liverpool City Council over the design for the site.
For an idea of the scale of the endeavour, KEIE teased in April that it wanted to build a 35-storey apartment block on part of the plot. King Edward Triangle is earmarked for 1,200 homes in the approved Liverpool Waters masterplan.
Brock Carmichael managing partner Chris Bolland said the discussions with the city council had been promising thus far.
“The council has been constructive and fully engaged, and we have been able to move forward elements of the masterplan design already,” Bolland said.
The element of the masterplan Bolland alluded to is a mid-rise tower on the corner of Waterloo Road and Paisley Street. Pre-application discussions are set to begin shortly, according to Pegasus director Darren Muir.
Bolland continued: “There’s still plenty to do, of course, but it’s shaping up to be the game-changer everyone wants it to be and I’m looking forward to sharing our designs in due course for proper scrutiny.”
Pegasus director Darren Muir added: “The overall project will deliver a step-change in how the north end of the city centre looks and functions. Ensuring all elements knit together into a satisfactory whole is a critical role of the planning function and we’ve got our shoulders to the wheel.”
The appointment of Pegasus and Brock Carmichael to the project follows a recent land acquisition by KEIE to further enable the transformation of the site. This was of PMR Engineering Services’ engineering works off Paisley Street.
Hear from Hugh Frost at Place North West’s Liverpool City Region Development Update on 14 November. Book your ticket.
Good on Beetham and KEIE – they seem to be setting a decent pace with this. The project looks in good hands with two appointments, too.
By More Anonymous than the others
Brilliant News!
A practice with a rich history in the city and several exciting designs to their name!
By Dr Ian Buildings
“Talks promising so far”, this will be long and drawn out, the head of planning is a law unto herself, she makes decisions on the Ten Streets without recourse to the planning committee, though not sure if that’s a good or bad thing.
If we don’t get two 55 storey towers out of this I will be very disappointed, the rest can be 40 storeys.
By Anonymous
Great news! This area will change the skyline for the better, giving a fantastic cluster. Although Brock’s are doing the masterplan hopefully more architectural firms are involved in the tower designs, it needs variety. Four new towers sitting behind the ones on Princes Dock will give us an amazing vista, especially from the cruise ship’s sailing in from the bay! Can’t wait to see the plans.
By Port City
Really great to see this development moving forward with talks with the council already taking place and with two established businesses namely Brock Carmichael and Pegasus being brought into the project. I really hope that in terms of design and approach project wise that KEIE and Beetham will set a high standard to which other projects in the Liverpool City Region can seek to work to and hopefully attain. Hopefully KEIE and Beetham will give us a real benchmark for the future.
By Brendan R
9:31 pm
By Anonymous is so correct . This development has the potential along with the new stadium to finally kick start our city back into the mainstream within the NW . Its critical that whoever is allowed to hold the city back with ludicrous personal views on building heights needs to have this influence removed for the greater good of the city . Mr Robinson time for some positive and strong leadership please.
By Anonymous
55 storeys would be fantastic for the city but I don’t have and faith in Liverpool City Council. Hope I am proven wrong.
By Anonymous
Imagine what you could build on the Costco land next door.
By LordLiverpool
Great, news, fingers crossed its a knock out design fitting for its location. Hope they think big and really push for towers of 70, 50, 40 and 35 storeys – its a once in a life time location.
By GetItBuilt!
@By LordLiverpool So many bungalows!
By Anonymous
Please nothing too flashy keep it low key keep Liverpool unique small on its world famous waterfront
By Anonymous
Yeh not world famous anymore
By Anonymous
The architect will need to step up to deliver real quality, which has been generally lacking in Liverpool. Sadly there is a dearth of architectural talent in Liverpool, although viability of projects has long been an issue. Would have been more excited by a Simpsons, Hawkins Brown, AHMM or other international player with a track record of exemplar tall buildings – we can’t afford to get this one wrong.
I wish the architects well though and on a positive note, it’s great for jobs in the city.
By Mike
Please nothing like the ones in Manchester we want something more classy
By Anonymous
Don’t get me started on city centre bungalows!
By LordLiverpool
No thank you. We want homes with beautiful gardens.
By Bixteth boy
35 floors ? Is that it ? This city man has no boldness
By St Domingo
@St Domingo, 35 stories is the smallest one planned, others will be taller.
By Liverpool4Progress
“We want homes with beautiful gardens”
and who is the “we”, most of the gardens I see of the inappropriate houses in town are overgrown or not cared for.
There is a place for houses with front and back gardens, it’s in the suburbs.
If this City wants to gets it’s population numbers back up we have to build high in the inner city.
By Anonymous
Awwww they want homes with gardens on their world famous waterfront!!!! How cute.
By Anonymous
@mike, no lack of talent in Liverpool architects. If Manchester’s towers are an example of Simpsons “talent “ you can keep it thanks. Hopefully Liverpool will get some great designs with variety, replica grey boxes won’t be good enough for our waterfront.
By Boss
The King Eddy Site is a bit of a poisoned challis, How may high rise designs have we seen for this site shot down by design reviews such a CABE. Hopefully, this fall of these groups will see a good design move to site. Just hope the council sorts the infrastructure out there as the traffic is horrendous there and 1200 homes will only make this work before the stadium opens
By nicko