A nice example of modern architecture but also a sad lesson in what can go wrong. The 160 m-long ‘inhabited wall’ visitor centre was opened in 2001 as the centrepiece of a wildflower attraction and seed business.
However structural problems coupled with expensive maintenance and the financial crash led to its closure in Jan 2017. More on its demise at https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk...s-national-wildflower-centre/10017540.article.
The building was then vandalised and set alight 6 months later, and has remained closed, fenced off and increasingly Jurassic Park ever since, https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/wildflower-centre-set-alight-suspected-13141874.
Pictures go around the periphery of the long thin building, take in some of the flower-related things in the grounds, then move inside. Visited with junior during school half-term.
Linear roof garden and surroundings.
Inside - only about 2/3 rds of the interior was accessible.
Model of the site. The curved forms at the back were apparently never built.
However structural problems coupled with expensive maintenance and the financial crash led to its closure in Jan 2017. More on its demise at https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk...s-national-wildflower-centre/10017540.article.
The building was then vandalised and set alight 6 months later, and has remained closed, fenced off and increasingly Jurassic Park ever since, https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/wildflower-centre-set-alight-suspected-13141874.
Pictures go around the periphery of the long thin building, take in some of the flower-related things in the grounds, then move inside. Visited with junior during school half-term.
Linear roof garden and surroundings.
Inside - only about 2/3 rds of the interior was accessible.
Model of the site. The curved forms at the back were apparently never built.
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