Unity presents a pair of distinctive forms within a city skyline: one a slender stack of interlocking apartments crowned by a projecting penthouse, the other a compact block in a chequerboard wrapping. The two towers – connected by a shared eight-storey podium base of retail and parking – serve as powerful complements to the waterfront silhouette of Liverpool’s Three Graces. The 27-storey residential tower accommodates 161 flats, while the 16-storey building contains 161,500 square feet of office spaces with views to the Mersey. The patterning of the façades explores ideas of scale and urban camouflage, and links back to the geometrically-painted ‘Dazzle Ships’ that once crowded the city’s docks.

Awards
  • 2007 RIBA National Award for Architecture
  • 2007 RIBA Award for Architecture

Exhibitions
  • 2007 Unity Liverpool
2006
Location
Liverpool, UK
Cost
£57million
Client
Rumford Investments
Architect
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Contractor
Laing O’Rourke Plc
Structural Engineer
Faber Maunsell
M&E
Hoare Lea
M&E Penthouses
Rotary Barrats
Project Manager
Mace LtdFire
Consultants
Hoare Lea
Planning Supervisor & Quantity Surveyor
Goyne Adams
Quantity Surveyor Penthouses
John Shreeves & Partners
Acoustic Engineer
Sol Acoustics
Landscape Architects
Kinnear Landscape Architects
Graphic Design
Studio Myerscough
Rights of Light for Richmond Investments
Edmund Kirby
Marketing
Finch
Client’s Agent
Thompson Design / Hurd Rolland


Sub-Contractors & Suppliers

Cladding
Dane Architectural Systems
Pod Envelope
Corus
Rainscreen System
Kingspan
Frame
Strongforce
Dryling
EC Interiors
Ceilings
Bankside
Glass Lining to Entrance
Greenberg
Glass / Toughcoat, Joinery
OEP & JBS Joinery

Allford
Hall
Monaghan
Morris