The Cunard Building

Susie Stubbs

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The Cunard Building

Water Street, Liverpool, L3 1DS
Cunard Building, Liverpool, image courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts
Image courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts
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The 1916 Cunard Building is a different beast to the other Graces, its interior once a head office and a class-segregated waiting room for those waiting to use Cunard’s transatlantic steamers. Identity and migration and nationalism pull tightly across its grand Portland Stone frontage; even its restrained classical façade screams stiff upper lip, chaps. Yet now it is a glorified office block, an entire floor empty as the recession nips at its River Mersey-cooled heels. Closed for public access, but nevertheless a worthwhile stop on a walking tour.

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