Starlight Investments’ Liverpool Lighthaus tops out

Such a shame, the whole docks could have become a cluster of skyscrapers, creating an iconic skyline, tens of thousands of home and tonnes of office space to support a vibrant city. More wasted opportunities and slow developments to come I guess.

Very much hope that the comments from both Starlight and X1 indicate they have other projects under consideration on Liverpool’s waterfront.
In the meantime ,and not far away from this development,what has happened to the Packaged Living’s project at Old Hall Place.

So slow . No activity around Bramley Moore 850 million pound stadium which had taken 4 years to build ???? Not even a restaurant ?Wait for the 80’s hotdog stands

Princes Dock and the remaining undeveloped docks have huge potential to transform Liverpool. These locations in Liverpool, Birkenhead and the wider NW should be what Rachel Reeves and chums should be focusing on. The UK economy will only grow and make a lasting change for everyone, when true investment and the right environment is created for jobs, regeneration, infrastructure and homes.

Really bleak looking group of buildings

This really didn’t turn out to look like its ‘profile picture’, did it? Hopefully future additions to the waterfront are a little less grey and a little more visually engaging. Also bemusing why you’d build a high rise residential tower on the waterfront and then have minimal windows of the view from it.

Any news on infinity Towers plan

Princes dock looking good, perhaps a bit more variety in architecture would be good , hopefully when the king Edwards triangle development takes place whole the area will be a very attractive cluster of tall buildings . Perhaps the planners were actually correct on this occasion to go for a cluster rather than random high rises

Plaza 1821 looks like a massive missed opportunity now the long awaited third building has been delivered in this cluster. Another mistake by Peel at Princes Dock who could have been a little bit braver and gone that little bit higher. Looks a bit silly stuck in the middle now.

More very uninspiring and plain rectangular buildings. It would be good to see a bit more flair and originality of design.

They’re just towers, and it’s not a bad tower. Can’t help thinking the criticisms are false ..

Peel doesn’t appear to be doing much in Liverpool if indeed they are doing anything at all. If we judge by the photo the skyscrapers look nothing more than banal boxes. I’m all for skyscrapers provided that they are well designed and bring something special to Liverpool’s skyline which regrettably is not he case. People talk about an “iconic skyline”. Well, we’re far from it. Architects and planners must do better.

Very dated looking buildings

Planning seems to take forever, need to get on with these developments including the stalled sites around the city

Such a shame to see Liverpool falling so far behind other northern cities especially the regional capital. Half-hearted high rises and apartment blocks built on the cheap using cheap materials. Scores of vacant plots all around the city centre, partly built buildings that never get completed, all very soul destroying. Once one of the great port cities of the world it should be on a par with Hamburg, Barcelona or Rotterdam. Sadly it now pales into comparison with places like Manchester and Leeds .

People bemoaning there towers as banal and underwhelming should really take a look at the terrible 30+ storey towers going up in Cardiff, lots of them, not a single one looks anything as good as these ones in Liverpool. Terrible towers with awful cladding. A skyscraper is a skyscraper right? They’re not going to be architectural masterpieces but they certainly have a beauty of their own. Until you see a terrible one, plenty in Cardiff, you realise how bad they can be when you see a bad one.

@Anon 11.59am, re Bramley-Moore stadium, things are starting to happen in the adjacent street and if you take a visit down there people are on site in a number of buildings with a big beer house/restaurant, another to be a hotel, plus other bars/cafes. There are also planning applications in for more venues, don’t forget too there’s the Titanic Hotel who were meant to be developing an old pumping station into a pizza restaurant.

So many odd comments in this, saying it looks bleak when the pictures have been taken in winter, any city will look like that this time of year!

Nice addition to princes dock this, fits in with the lexington and city lofts nicely and looks even more impressive in person.

Great to see the gateway rising up in the background of this, hopefully Soapworks and Old Hall Place can follow at some sort of pace. Massive shame about the Infinity structure in the background, it would be nice if colleagues from PNW could query or follow up with the council around the site, given their importance or resurrecting stalled developments which this has to be at the top of.

Salford Quays 2.0

Funny how 31 stories in Liverpool looks tall but the same in Manchester would be tiny! A tale of two cities in growth and aspiration!

A great addition to our iconic skyline. With the continued development of Liverpool Waters and the best Stadium in Europe just completed at Bramley Moore dock ..Plus a Pro House building Government…things are looking UP UP UP !”

When people bandy around terms like “regional capital”, whose fault is it primarily that Liverpool is “falling behind”?

And more to the point, who is genuinely sorry about that?

Not sorry enough to actually side with us, I bet.

Princess Dock is such a joyless miserable place. I hope they can do better in their net phase

Eamon ..2.59am post time says it all. Tourism booming in liverpool due to unique and plentiful beautiful buildings and magnificent river. Supported by world class culture and sport offerings including world class golf and horse racing on tap…and the some decent beeches. Some decent restaurant in Manchester and Leeds …and bars obviously judging by Eamon

Yikes. Cheap and nasty – like it’s adjacent siblings. Lexington the only redeeming element of the stretch. Such a shame to have such a lack of care, attention and investment in such a prominent city waterfront. Marginmania!

“More very uninspiring and plain rectangular buildings. It would be good to see a bit more flair and originality of design.
By Bob Hodgkiss“

Such as what Bob?

I really like them and enjoy having a walk around princes dock

TBF Leeds has some of the worst skyscrapers I’ve ever seen. I do think this cluster looks naff though, sorry. Even Lexington looks a little cheap sometimes and has a Chinese faux style.

Dreadful architecture for a once beautiful waterfront.

@ Peter MacFarlane 7.04pm, a once beautiful waterfront you say, no it wasn’t the Princes Dock was a busy waterfront with dock sheds and a pretty utilitarian train terminus but never beautiful.
The biggest crime was needlessly pulling down 2 sections of the Waterloo Warehouses but thankfully we still have one section left.
The city has to modernise and the new buildings at Princes dock help do that and nothing of any architectural merit has been destroyed from there.

Liverpool lost its status as a world heritage site with the promis that Liverpool would have an iconic skyline that would compare with Hong Kong or Sydney. But what do we have? Boxes with cladding worthy of bathroom tiles. A skyline that risks being destroyed through the lack of ambition and vision for the city. Unfortunately Liverpool still remains one of the most underdeveloped cities in Western Europe. Liverpool lacks great architecture ( some of the buildings dating back to the 1800s are quite beautiful at a time when architects, developers and elected officials had real ambition). if Liverpool wants to succeed its skyline then it must choose the best architects.

@John 6.34pm, John yes having respected architects designing schemes in Liverpool would be great but let’s look at some examples previously when some globally known architects forwarded plans.
The I.M. Pei apartment block on Liverpool One was reduced by about 10 floors because of the height dictates. Meanwhile the imaginative Cloud Building by Will Alsop was belittled by the locals and unceremoniously dropped.
Architects have a hard time off Liverpool Planning who always think they know better.