TOWNS AND BUILDINGS
been engaged, the master plan used the design discipline of the right angle in a brave attempt to unify many buildings with a wide range of architectural treatment.17 The street was abandoned as a three-dimensional design discipline though the main street lines and land boundaries, which in places took the form of a rectangular grid, have conditioned the geometry of the new-built form. For example, buildings cross the former streets to break the continuity but they remain at right angles to them; others step back from the pavement, but remain parallel to the original street. The spatial volume of the street
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has been destroyed but the memory of its original geometry retained. The design discipline of the right angle in this case at Liverpool has not quite achieved the desired result, unity over a large site. The juxtaposition of buildings of a highly individual character in close proximity creates neither street nor square but rather an amorphous space saved, in some areas, by fine landscaping (Figures 3.23–3.26).
Figure 3.23 Liverpool University Figure 3.24 Liverpool University Figure 3.25 Liverpool University Figure 3.26 Liverpool University
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