Partners reveal glimpse of 26-storey King Edward tower

They look like boxes to me

Surely that tallest tower is way more than just 26 storeys?

Great to see ambition with the height in Liverpool for a change

At the end of the day, they are all boxes.

Can’t get through a Section 106 viability assessment if you’re spending a fortune on pretty shaped adventurous buildings.

Liverpool’s skyline getting the treatment it deserves. Let’s hope design and quality is prioritised.

Patiently waiting for all the “ItS ShouLD Be BigGEr” “In ManCHesTer it WOulD Be TwiCE as TaLL anD wITH A SpacE PorT ON Top” “The CoUNciL Are RubbISH and Are HOLding The CiTY BaCK” “MAke it 200 StorEYS, Like MANChester”

They are just a artists impression

Will look great with this cluster of high rise apartments,.hopefully with the tallest at the centre

Nailed it scale wise

In Manchester it would be twice as tall and with a space port on top

Pencilled Sketches are one thing….a master construction plan (MCP) , is another….It took an awful long time for Liverpool Council too allow permission to build the sea front…Their getting there…. ‘sorry to say many life-long Liverpudlians are dead and buried , and never saw their great City back too its proper place on the “world stage”……It’ll be the same again…….

This development is equal in importance as Liverpool One was, this needs all the support and push to get this through planning and spades in the ground asap. This will be the catalyst to further development and putting Liverpool back on the map for developers and investment. More please. Its time the giant woke up.

Some promising elements (although that tallest tower looks akin to something the Marvel superheroes would be turning up to (just needs the helipad)) The far left tower (on the restaurant site) looks promising though, the waterfront needs some colour and I personally think brick coloured talls should be being added to the skyline (to compliment the docks and warehouses).

One must hope that the Council’s attitude is constructive and that they move at pace. The prize is too great for this to hit the buffers as they hinder viability with daft demands. Get it built!

These impressions look good to me and similar to what many globally admired architects have produced.
To those who say they look like boxes, is that all you can come up with, did you expect the kind of tall residential buildings you see in the world’s major cities to look much different, or look like the Taj Mahal , or the Pyramids.
The sooner Beetham/Morris get these built all the better, and this will give the city more confidence in itself.

It’s being reported , else where, the tallest building will be 50 story high and the whole development may consist of 10 buildings.
As to the design these are only artist impressions we need to wait a little longer to see the true designs.

More fake news from developers. These plans go outside the area outlined in the SPD and obliterate heritage assets when they could easily build around. If you think these drawings will see the light of day I’ve got a large iron tower in Paris to sell you.

Looking good and if infinity towers replacement looks like original plan…will be nice book end to north of city centre. Great views of the estuary, bay, city and the Welsh hills too

I think the clusters of high rise buildings are really starting to work to enhance the city’s skyline. , perhaps the planners. Have got this approach correct although the higher the better

Dr. Ian Buildings: Your keyboard has mind of its own.

Nice drawing. Pure fantasy of course.

Further cementing Liverpool’s skyline as the best in the country. You can’t beat a good waterfront skyline.

I feel like this could have been bigger. Im manchester this building design would be twice as tall why are liverpool council holding us back show some ambition please

Only an outline plan but still impressive massing. Please keep the talls confined to this cluster, don’t want to see our wonderful city mimic Benidorm like Manchester. The waterfront will be world famous and instantly recognisable if it isn’t already!

Wish I could get excited by this but neither the design nor the reality give me the slightest cause for celebration.

IF and its a big IF these towers get built , Liverpool would have the best cluster along with the ones on princess dock outside of London , if the council start acting like a big city council should , the skline will be one of europes best , more footfall shops and cafes bars aswell , Liverpool really should use its location to atract investment .

Pre-planning: looks ok, similar to lots of built developments in other English cities. Post planning: obligatory reduction of 15 storeys, removal of every redeeming quality, result: cheap bland anytown designs, which Liverpool is expert at delivering on year in year out. Try not to get too excited folks!

It won’t happen. Liverpool is the other cities satellite town. At least 25 floors will have to be scraped off before it even becomes an afterthought. Sigh!

A great example of what can be achieved on the site footprint. Now please make sure your designers can create new jobs in the city region.

Ref: Dr Ian, I suppose you would be happy to patiently wait for hell to freeze over. That’s more probable than the City of Liverpool ever matching Manchester for its vision and forward thinking. You don’t work for Liverpool City Council planning department by any chance.

Council should work night and day to get this done. Manchester is pulling further ahead and we need to get closer.

More of the uninspiring architecture we`re getting more and more used to. I hope it doesn’t go ahead.

I see there are negative keyboard warriors pretending to be from Liverpool in the comments . Scared?
Liverpool still looks better.

One has to laugh when the developers say that the sketch shows ‘early thinking’ for the cluster. That’s developer speak for ‘even if we got permission, thought there was a business case, raised the money, in reality it would one tower of 15 storeys and two bungalows. Sigh….

Well said Liverpoliton 6.16 pm. Other city dreams of iconic riverfront and skyline of liverpool. Just hope council don’t mess it up.

We need more affordable bungalow’s for the elderly but we need “ fancy dan “ apartment’s for business people too!! Liverpool invented the sky scraper

Replying to lord goat cheese that is one of the smaller towers starting it all off. In the image it is the new building furthest on the left. So the taller ones are easily 50+ stories.

World stage….world class….sleeping giant….

I hope the design will be high quality because the cluster next to it looks atrocious

Liverpool waterfront is not world famous.

Whatever they build here will have zero impact on external perceptions of the city or its skyline so they might as well go as tall as they can.

Hopefully where Beetham and TJ Morris others lead then others will follow. It would be great to think that when the cruise ships are approaching the River Mersey that the first sight of Liverpool that the passengers see will be a big collection of tall and very striking and stunning buildings. That would be the dream and hopefully it will turn into reality. Approaching the Liverpool from seaward is just the best way to see our fine city.

What amazes me is the questions in the comment section are all questions answered in the article. All you have to do is read it properly.

Replying to realist.
Name 2 buildings recognisable of Manchester outside of the city itself ?

If the artist’s impression is anything to go by this is a recipe for disaster. The same old designs we’ve seen 100 times and very poor designs I must say. If architects get this wrong which I think will be the case ( who has heard of BrockCarmichael?) In my opinion a more modernist approach is needed here ( Mies van der Rohe) simple elegant lines not this show off rubbish. The news buildings must be in harmony with the old ones. Mega tall towers is not the right approach.

26 storey’s shows absolutely no ambition. We’ve been here soooo many times before it wears me out talking about it. I hope I’m wrong but if this even starts never mind gets built then I’ll run out of hats to eat.

@realist, you sound quite bitter, Liverpool’s waterfront is instantly recognisable and indeed famous. The external perceptions of Liverpool vary massively from people who flock here to visit and are delighted by what they experience to those who live just down the M62 and are forever trying to put it down. Liverpool is a fabulous place and these towers will indeed look amazing.

Cruise ships sailing up the Mersey and berthing in front of that would be an incredible sight. Passing Everton’s unique stadium on the way too, Liverpool has the wow factor in spades, get it built.

Its 26 storey’s to 55 storeys

What we need in Liverpool is properties with enough bedrooms for families. Not one-bed, two-bed flats. Even the new development in North Liverpool, with its hundreds of one and two bed flats, will only have SIX three-bed flats. What does a family with more than two kids do? Continue waiting on Property Pool for twenty years before giving up?

Liverpools skyline is already better than Manchester’s. Why is there this belief that Liverpool needs to be building taller like Manchester, that building bigger equals a better skyline!? It doesn’t. Proof is literally staring you in the face when you look at both cities today.
With this cluster of new talls, on the waterfront, Liverpools already more superior, famous skyline will simply improve more and more. But it is important that these new talls are not all identical looking and of similar size, because that’s when you end up with a blocky/mass mess, like those down the road……

Just making an obsevation on Manchester talls – they are a means to an end, that end is growing and sustaining the economy of the city. If Manchester has a superpower it’s that it just cracks on, assuming the problems of a growing city are better than the problems of a stagnating one. I just wish Liverpool had th.e same mindset

I’m really sorry but I have to agree with ‘those who live just down the M62’, if you think Liverpool’s skyline is instantly recognisable you need to speak to someone outside of Liverpool or stop shoving words down tourist throats. And the towers on the artists impression look bland. They are hardly going to bring something unique or something more ‘instantly recognisable’. Lets bring the comments back down to Earth before you make the rest of us throw up.

Social Worker – don’t worry none of these flats are going in the property pool anyway. Every single one is “build to rent” or a proposed investment piece for foreign pension funds and individual investors. Just like the Metalworks Scheme to use another recent example.

@ Social Worker, yes Liverpool requires family houses but not in the city centre.
Look along Edge Lane, Scotland Rd, Stanley Rd, Garston Village, parts of Granby, lots of land laying idle but ideal for good, modern,terraced housing.
The inner city needs to be high density , thus boosting the population and giving footfall to shops and businesses in town.

This Development will change the city of liverpool if we keep making these developments liverpool will become a world-class city with a beatiful waterfront skyline in no time

Imagine if they did something like this at Salford Quays. Greater Manchester is so blessed to have a waterfront.

Goat cheese 26 is the smallest tower and it is situated at a site that was meant to be for 17 story building. It was even part of the original king Edward’s triangle scheme but later added to it and since that site is already empty it will be the first to be built

This is Good for the city but,this building looks like its more then 26 storeys and more buildings that get higher in liverpool the more it would become world-class