The Liverpool One master plan, spread across 42 acres, houses retail, leisure and mixed-use quarters. The project, previously known as The Paradise Project, involves the redevelopment of underutilized land in Liverpool city center. It is a retail led project, anchored by department stores John Lewis and Debenhams, with additional elements, including leisure (anchored by a 14-screen Odeon cinema), residential, offices, public open space, and transport improvements. The project is intended to give Liverpool a dramatic lift in its ranking among British retail destinations and to boost the local economy.
Founded in 1961, BDP employs more than 1,200 architects, designers, engineers, urbanists, sustainability experts, lighting designers and acoustics specialists in 15 studios across the UK, France, Ireland and Netherlands. The firm has also been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize.
The other shortlisted projects are New Street Square, Bennetts Associates, 5 Aldermanbury Square, Eric Parry Architects, and Castleford Bridge, McDowell + Benedetti. The awards will be presented on October 17, 2009 in London.
Now in its second year, the RIBA/CABE Public Space Award celebrates publicly accessible external space, whether it is green or gray, urban or rural, privately or publicly owned, designed or redesigned and refurbished for public use.
