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Cool and original pics, like the way they're framed by the ferry's windows..

That small, humble little cluster really is becoming my fave cluster in the UK, lol.. I just love it and this is just the beginning.

Ohhh the first one looks like entering New York - I tell you what Liverpool really deserves a great skyline, and I think its the best place for the UK to get world wide recognition for its skylines. Keep building tall :cheers:

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Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a giant seahorse surfing on the waves in the first pic? :)

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Nice photos Poli!

That cluster is getting bigger as we speak, just give it a few months and then do your trip again.

has anyone been in that new carpark in princess Dock
its 19 storys high we got followed up my a security guard
thanks
Liverodysea

did you take any outside of the boat?

did you take any outside of the boat?

Yes Tommy but only a few, I will post them below.

Incidentally, thanks everyone for all the comments.

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i bet the wind was quite strong out there it always is even on warm days.

Poli they are great shots! I love shipping photos , especially the first one, looks nice and congested :D

The shipping activity on the river looks so right, like bangers and mash, fish and chips!! Liverpool and its river are at their very best with ships around.
Great pics Poli thanks for reminding us.

Those are good pics mate - I like the slightly unusual viewpoints.

View from a Mersey Ferry in a few years time, complete with Princes Dock towers, St.Pauls Sq, Beetham 2 and Unity all complete;

http://img201.echo.cx/img201/96/mersey084dd.th.jpg (http://img201.echo.cx/my.php?image=mersey084dd.jpg)

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Great to see Unity poking it's head through the mass.

Top pics.

Fantastic render JDN, could you enlarge it at all though?

very impressed with that render looks very proffesianal.

Are my eyes deceiving me or is that a giant seahorse surfing on the waves in the first pic? :)

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Bit of a Guinness advert vibe there? :P

Wow great rendering! Liverpool's catching up with Manchester and Birmingham. It's skyline looks great by the Mersey, the newer buildings remind me of Miami a bit. Juat needs better weather!

Wow great rendering! Liverpool's catching up with Manchester and Birmingham. It's skyline looks great by the Mersey, the newer buildings remind me of Miami a bit. Juat needs better weather!
catchting up liverpools skyline is better.

i've been waiting for a final rendering like that for ages, fantastic! It's nice to see where all the buildings will fit in to the overall skyline. From certain angles over ere on the Wirral, there are still huge gaps between some of the tall buildings, so anything in between, say for example the burnt out pub opposite beetham would lend it self to another beetham two! keep me fingers crossed!

Great pics, love they way the cluster is framed by the windows!

After seeing the height of the Unity office tower core, the residential tower should be taller than the RSA meaning that waterfront rendering was scaled down.

Great pics, love they way the cluster is framed by the windows!

After seeing the height of the Unity office tower core, the residential tower should be taller than the RSA meaning that waterfront rendering was scaled down.
i think we all knew that unity is going to big they tried to make it look sqaut when its actually tall.

Fantastic render JDN, could you enlarge it at all though?

How big do you want it? The original is massive, using a very high resolution because it is an image that has been published. But, because I am using imageshack to host it, I have to scale it down so I can upload it.

Do it as big as Imageshack will allow you to! :cheers:

Yep Bunnyman is right! It needs to be huuuuge! Very high quality rendering, I love the effect with the cruise ship as well :D

The shipping activity on the river looks so right, like bangers and mash, fish and chips!! Liverpool and its river are at their very best with ships around.

And will look even better when the likes of these are alongside "The Lanney". http://img228.echo.cx/img228/6035/2002cruise11609ve.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
PS: taken in Bridgetown Barbados.

good effort poli, i still find nothing more enjoyable than an hour spent on the mersey ferry, it really does bring it all home!

so new landing stage will be able to handle the big one on the right.

so new landing stage will be able to handle the big one on the right.
Yes it will, actually the "big one on the right" is only about 85,000 tons and considered to be mid-size in todays ctruise market. The new landing stage will accommodate the largest cruise liners afloat, ships like RCCL's Adventure & Navigator of the Seas and Carnivals Triumph & Destiny etc all ships above 100,000 tons. The length, beam and height of the ship should have little bearing on it's tying up alongside the new stage, drought is the criteria and as, almost, all modern cruise liners draw 8 meters or less there should be no problem with accepting any cruise ship.

Yes it will, actually the "big one on the right" is only about 85,000 tons and considered to be mid-size in todays ctruise market. The new landing stage will accommodate the largest cruise liners afloat, ships like RCCL's Adventure & Navigator of the Seas and Carnivals Triumph & Destiny etc all ships above 100,000 tons. The length, beam and height of the ship should have little bearing on it's tying up alongside the new stage, drought is the criteria and as, almost, all modern cruise liners draw 8 meters or less there should be no problem with accepting any cruise ship.
very good news sloyne the worlds biggest liners will be comeing to liverpool makes you wonder why this stage wasnt built earlier but at least its getting built now.

the sapphire princess is a big liner by the way.

the worlds biggest liners will be comeing to liverpool makes you wonder why this stage wasnt built earlier.
Certainly make me wonder. I have been proposing this type of facility since the 'Garden Festival'. I have been in touch with almost every council leader since then. Even David Henshaw seemed quite cool to the idea when I first proposed it saying he "would pass it on to the tourist committee" on council. I also received a TWO word reply to my suggestion from Mike Storey and it said "Good idea". The best response I received from anyone Liverpool (elected) official was from John Hamilton who was very enthousiastic but, he said he doubted whether or not he could get councils backing for something that would involve the M.D.&.H.C..

Great photos! Are there any 500ft+ towers proposed near the beetham tower sites. That would be a fantastic cluster if so. I hope these world heritage tossers dont get there way in Liverpool limiting the construction of scrapers. The potential for a world class skyline is there.

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Great photos! Are there any 500ft+ towers proposed near the beetham tower sites. That would be a fantastic cluster if so. I hope these world heritage tossers dont get there way in Liverpool limiting the construction of scrapers. The potential for a world class skyline is there.
there is suppoesd to be one on the site of king edward pub but its all gone quiet for now.

has anyone been in that new carpark in princess Dock
its 19 storys high we got followed up my a security guard
thanks
Liverodysea

Yes, ive posted some pictures taken from the 18th floor (which is highest point on the Strand side), wasn't followed by anyone although cctv probably followed me. You must look dodgy or something. :)

Liverpolitan..

They are great pics, like the rope one with out of focus waterfront, very arty.

Liverpolitan, JDN - great pics fellas. :cheers:

Wow great rendering! Liverpool's catching up with Manchester and Birmingham. It's skyline looks great by the Mersey, the newer buildings remind me of Miami a bit. Juat needs better weather!

I would be better still if the council weren't so backward thinking. :bash:

Just hope English Heritage aren't too much of an influence also.

Thanks for the pics Poli. I went on the ferry myself a few weeks ago, but stupidly left my camera in York. I kept thinking as the boat passed the Central Docks area- imagine what the skyline will look like in 8 years time- stretching (I hope) from the Tobacco warehouse to the end of Kings Dock, and on to Brunswick Quay. One thing I think is for sure, the skyline is going to change dramatically over the next decade.

Hopefully, as all the new build appears NIMBY-esque attitudes will decline both amongst the local population and especially in the council. After all, it will take some doing in a few years time to turn down a modern tower along the water front when there is Unity, Beetham 2, etc.

Checkout pics of my trip on The Ferry from last year!

http://grevo.se/albums/Liverpool%202004/liverpool008.jpg

Click here (http://grevo.se/?id=gallery&album=Liverpool%202004)

Its not my site, but a friends from Sweden who came over and we took him and another from down south out for the day and night!

Spreading a bit of scouse pride as you do.

Hopefully, as all the new build appears NIMBY-esque attitudes will decline both amongst the local population and especially in the council. After all, it will take some doing in a few years time to turn down a modern tower along the water front when there is Unity, Beetham 2, etc

If Beetham 2 turns out as good as the renderings the I think people may accept modern highrise easier. Beetham 1 has become part of the skyline now that it'd look wierd with out it, West Tower will change the view even more dramatically with it's height and location.

A couple of bevvies on the ferry,now that's class. :cheers:

The more 20ish storey buildings we get, the less controversial buildings of such a scale become. In turn they pave the way for yet bigger buildings so I think shortly, we will get more proposals over 30 storeys and so on.

The more 20ish storey buildings we get, the less controversial buildings of such a scale become. In turn they pave the way for yet bigger buildings so I think shortly, we will get more proposals over 30 storeys and so on.

Very true. Its also good that the 20ish mike buildings are located right on the waterfront, meaning that any buildings built further inland will have to be taller.

Very true. Its also good that the 20ish mike buildings are located right on the waterfront, meaning that any buildings built further inland will have to be taller.

I like the way your thinking.

Me too. :cheers:

I also very much enjoy the fact that the word 'storey' has now been completely supplanted by the word 'mike' on this forum. So much so that I barely notice it any more. :lol:

Amaxing how these things catch on. :cheers:

I'm just surprised it hasn't been usurped by the word 'gobshite'. :)

"Beetham West will be 40 gobshites tall".

:cheers:

I'm just surprised it hasn't been usurped by the word 'gobshite'. :)

"Beetham West will be 40 gobshites tall".

:cheers:
:laugh:

How about we make 10 mikes = 1 henshaw? :laugh:

Very true. Its also good that the 20ish mike buildings are located right on the waterfront, meaning that any buildings built further inland will have to be taller.

I like your thinking too Dicky, now get yourself on the council.

Had a little ferry trip myself today in the georgeous weather, first time in about 15 years, was fantastic. The view of the waterfront does look impressive, and to think what it will look like in 2008 when a lot of the developments are finished. Have taken about 100 pics, so will post a selection of the best in various relevant threads.

Here is a starter.

The ferry stage
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Release the rope and of we go cool dude :cool:
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Great pics Juxt, esp the first with the Princes views.
I know I shouldn't judge people on first appearances, but I can't help it when looking at that bloke wearing the shades :cheers:

I bet he still harks on to his mates about the days when he was a roadie for the Beautiful South. Sad act. :cheers:

I bet he still harks on to his mates about the days when he was a roadie for the Beautiful South. Sad act. :cheers:
Any bets that his last bit of hair to drop off was his pigtail :)

One last Post for the night.

Irish Sea Ferry heading for the Pier Head.

http://www.123lcc.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/post/zirishferry.JPG

One last Post for the night.

Irish Sea Ferry heading for the Pier Head.



This pic is the bollox Juxt. I'm going to show this off in the morning as my new wallpaper. What a fantastic image to go bed with....apart from the missus of course! (she told me to write this). Off to bed myself zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz