Oriel Chambers
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| Oriel Chambers | |
| Building information | |
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| Location | Liverpool |
| Country | England |
| Architect | Peter Ellis |
| Construction Start Date | 1864 |
| Style | Modernist architecture |
Oriel Chambers is a Grade 1 Listed Building located on Water Street, near to the town hall in Liverpool. The building, a work by Peter Ellis, was built in 1864 comprises 43,000 sq.ft set over 5-floors.
Arguably one of the finest buildings in Liverpool, Oriel Chambers, and the architect's only other known building at 16 Cook Street, are the city's finest precursors of modernist architecture. However its simplified forms and large windows meant that the building initially courted controversy, being described as 'an agglomeration of great glass bubbles’ and 'a great abortion' which led to the disheartened Ellis abandoning architecture.
Today it looks a little different, combining its period architecture with a 1950’s extension, which was added to the building after it was bombed during the war.
In more recent times, the building was purchased from DCT Developments by Bruntwood for just over £5 million on 17 March 2006. During 2007, Bruntwood intend to refurbish the building at a cost of £750,000.
The building's primary tenant is currently a set of Barrister's chambers of the same name who have been in occupation in various parts of the building since 1965.
The building, and 16 Cook Street, featured in the ITV (Granada/Tyne Tees) television programme Grundy's Northern Pride, looking at John Grundy's favourite buildings in the north of England, aired on 9 January 2007.
[edit] External links
- http://www.sjsfiles.btinternet.co.uk/flm030636.htm
- http://www.walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/
- http://www.orielchambers.co.uk/
- http://www.bruntwood.co.uk
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