The Cunard Building
Susie Stubbs![Cunard Building, Liverpool, image courtesy of the Royal Academy of Arts](https://www.creativetourist.com/app/uploads/2012/12/Cunard-Building-Liverpool-image-courtesy-of-the-Royal-Academy-of-Arts.jpg)
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.