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 produced gifts (made-here), bike hire and tours, left luggage & pop-up food stalls.  Upper floors provide a budget capsule hotel and augmented reality learning/info space centred on the city.

At ground level, services of great need for visitor arrivals are at hand, whether hiring a bike (Citybike), charging a phone, accessing wifi, tapping into local tourism info and events.  Moving upwards, visitors get the opportunity to dwell more, grabbing tasty street-food from pop-up stalls, or buying unique goods from independent retailers. Situated at this level is the entrance to a short-stay capsule hotel which ascends to the seventh floor.

In a fast-track lift, visitors will be able to bypass the hotel to reach the top 2 levels, with a rooftop terrace to take in views, or beneath that, immerse themselves in augmented reality and be transported to other parts of the city in history, present day and future.

The Lookbook

The Concept

The Design Team

MBED Architects listen. They identify and realise the potential in both land and buildings.

The practice works collaboratively and creatively; using innovative design and architecture to generate intelligent and sustainable built environment solutions for end users and the wider community.