Features & Reports

In the early 1960s, when architectural historian Quentin Hughes was writing his book Seaport, Liverpool’s Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King was being built.

In the book there’s a night shot of the skeletal frame, raking buttresses and lantern tower, rising...

Stuart Gulliver’s career coincides with the emergence of the city as a political hot potato, first as a site of crisis and more recently as home to a so-called urban renaissance.

“I don’t regard myself as a regeneration person,” says Stuart Gulliver....

For a man that admits to suffering from vertigo, he has a strong relationship with tall buildings. As a youth he spent his summer holidays working in the family business, demolishing old mill chimneys; today he is building Manchester’s tallest tower.


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