We Make Places Projects

We Make Places is privileged to work with some really inspiring clients and locations, so we want to tell you all about how communities have been empowered and places and spaces have been changed

How was the Takeover 2016

Our summer 2016 Flyover Takeover programme was ambitious, exhausting, wonderful, joyous, moving and experimental.   It included 5 Sundays of road closure where the south carriageway of Churchill Way became a
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The Maverick City 2017

We've just finished 2017's version of The Maverick City, so here's a quick round up - including a write up by one of the participants

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We can’t stop chatting!

There are lots of places you can hear the We Make Places team and other exciting people talking this month

here's a small list

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Celebrating the Small

The Turner prize being awarded to Assemble for their work with Granby 4 Streets is timely and welcome news for the importance of ‘place-making’ in our communities. Muriel Gray’s disappointment

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Friends of the Flyover is EPIC!

Well, that's it - we are officially EPIC!

We are pleased to let you know that last night our wonderful Flyover Fest was announced as the Epic Awards 2015 England

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FlyoverFest Infographic

A beautiful pictorial analysis of Flyover Fest

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Lime Street: A Better Way to Make Places

Following the release, last week, of the £35 million Lime Street regeneration plan - and the subsequent debate about its suitability, Liverpool-based community interest company, We Make Places invited......

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Plot 7: mBed Architects – Learn:Live:Love Liverpool

The Vision

Based within a 9-storey landmark adjacent to Lime Street station, Learn:Live:Love Liverpool, offers an information gateway for visitors to Liverpool.  Facilities include events booking, transport info, locally

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Plot 6: Parkside Building Design – Happen

The Vision

Happen is a city centre making space that allows people to collaborate, exchange ideas, innovate, make stuff and make a living. Whether working on a product idea or

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Plot 5: reShaped Landscape Architects – The Futurist

The Vision

The Futurist is one of those buildings that people have fallen in love with, whether because of the beautiful façade, interiors or the special memories that it holds. 

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