Oriel Chambers
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| Oriel Chambers | |
| Building Information | |
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| Name | Oriel Chambers |
| Location | Liverpool |
| Country | England |
| Architect | Peter Ellis |
| Construction Start Date | 1864 |
| Style | Modernist architecture |
Oriel Chambers is a revolutionary building by Peter Ellis, in Liverpool, built in 1864, it is a Grade 1 Listed Building. Oriel Chambers, and the architect's only other building at 16 Cook Street are the city's finest precursors of modernist architecture. Yet the simplified forms and large windows were venomously vilified - Oriel Chambers was described as 'a great abortion' - and the disheartened Ellis gave up designing buildings.
It was purchased on 31 March 2006 for £5 million by Bruntwood.
The building's primary tenant is currently a set of Barrister's chambers of the same name.
[edit] External links
- http://www.ar.utexas.edu/courses/glossary/building/oriel.html
- http://www.sjsfiles.btinternet.co.uk/flm030636.htm
- http://www.walkingbook.co.uk/liverpool/
- http://www.orielchambers.co.uk/
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