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Post by Kev on May 20, 2004 10:03:08 GMT -5
 Casartelli Website HERE!A MULTI-million pound scheme to replace one of Liverpool's most famous buildings could be completed by next summer. Two years ago it was revealed that a £4m shopping and apartment complex would replace the demolished Casartelli building. Find out more here |
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Post by Kev on Jul 19, 2004 4:11:32 GMT -5
ONE of Liverpool's most distinctive buildings is re-emerging onto the city's skyline - more than a year after being demolished.
The grade II-listed Casartelli was condemned as unsafe and knocked down after standing for nearly 250 years at the corner of Hanover Street and Duke Street.
It followed several failed plans to refurbish the building, which was one of the warehouses around Liverpool's first dock.
Now though, developers are building an exact replica on the site, using some of the original materials, which will become a £5m residential and commercial complex
By December, the shell should be complete and the famous sight will be back on the landscape.
Architect Dylan Jones, of Atelier2, said: "We were quite keen to make it a replica to the point where we actually surveyed the original building before it was demolished.
"The original bricks cannot be used unfortunately. That was one of the reasons the old building was demolished.
"We did a constitution test on them and they were so weak inside we just couldn't re-use them and that was also one of the main reasons we had to take it down.
"What we have salvaged is some of the sandstone blocks used in the upper parts of the building and they can be reused."
When completed the ground floor will be used for commercial activity, with 34 apartments and five penthouse suites on the upper floors.
Built in 1760 in what was then the main dock area, the old building was one of the city's original warehouses.
The Italian Casartelli family based its scientific instrument manufacturing business there.
At that time, the river came up almost as far as Hanover Street and many of the merchants were based there.
The area grew during Liverpool's trading boom in the decades that followed.
For many years, the Casartelli was used as a warehouse for wine, but by the late 20th century the building was empty.
Plans to restore it in 1991 and 1999 were abandoned when grant applications fell through.
A new rescue plan by Hanover's parent company, Liverpool Property Holdings, to turn the building into apartments was given the go-ahead by planners but the building was later declared unsafe and had to be demolished.
The new development has been delayed because of extensive foundation work. Mr Jones said: "We did a lot of work below the ground and we have actually created a lot of car parking space as a result of how deep we had to dig.
"The old foundations were so shallow we had to dig down quite a bit. The work was painfully slow underground.
"We couldn't close Hanover Street off so we had to work within the site and that was very difficult.
"We have been on site for 12 months and we hope to have the shell in place by Christmas."
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Post by LV on Aug 2, 2004 18:09:08 GMT -5
As it is on August 8th 2004. Not much but it is getting there!  |
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Post by Kev on Aug 9, 2004 13:15:43 GMT -5
Yep, great pic Dave, it looked like that whilst I was on my stagdoo  |
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