Between Worsley
Street and the Bridgewater Canal, Hulme
Description
The
Box
Works is a former cardboard factory on Egerton
Street beside the Bridgewater Canal. The
art deco facade was preserved when it was
transformed into apartments by Urban
Splash. The Liverpool architectural
practice of Arkheion were responsible for the
design of the new building. The Box Works
was the first development to sell shell spaces
to purchasers who wanted to work with their own
architect and design their own home.
Promotional descriptions say this of the
building, "Internally the
circulation is dramatic with lift access
...... and then a bright internal street, five
storeys high, with a single wall of plywood
within which entrances to apartments are
subtly accommodated, and off which comes a
magically lit internal corridor which
confounds expectations. The planning of
the apartments themselves is complex,
inventive and well executed."
