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 | | |  | | |  | | | | | | Name:
John Elcock
Building:
Radio City Tower
Location:
Liverpool
What is your relationship to this building?: In the early 80's my family won a competition whereby we dined in the former revolving restaurant at the top of the Tower with Liverpool and England keeper Ray Clemence.
At that age I remembered little of the stunning view but much of the fine French cooking.
Why do you love this building?:
Twenty years on the tower still remains an iconic part of the cityscape, loved rather than derided - happily absorbed into the city skyline. As confident and as Liverpudlian as the two cathedrals and the more famous buildings on the waterfront.
At night it is lit with slowly changing colours - my children try and guess the next in the sequence as we drive through town at night.
At 125m tall it is one of the tallest pylons in the UK, but almost unknown outside Liverpool.
Despite the recent addition of a somewhat clumsy hat in the guise of an advertising gantry, when laser lit at Christmas it lights the city up like a giant disco ball.
For what is essentially a chimney for a shopping centre - its sheer scale and sense of humour continue to make it a lively addition to this most architecturally incongruous of cities.
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