Department of Civic Design, Bedford Street South, Liverpool
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Department of Civic Design, Bedford Street South, Liverpool
Image: © Stephen Richards Taken: 28 Jul 2011
Part of the University of Liverpool. Built 1950-51 to the designs of Gordon Stephenson. Modernist in its overall form, the continuous bands of windows and canopies on slender iron columns. Pevsner remarks that "it has the slightly undernourished look that marks that period of austerity".
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Image Location
Latitude
53.402277
Longitude
-2.966179