Oriel Chambers
Cast-iron office block with a grid of projecting glass oriels, a pioneer of the curtain wall.
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This guide to Oriel Chambers in Liverpool stands you in front of a Water Street office block from the eighteen sixties and asks why its windows made people so angry. It follows the architect Peter Ellis, a fire that cleared the corner, and the hunt for daylight that shaped every desk inside. Stand across the street where you can take in the whole grid of projecting glass.
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