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Metquarter Shopping Centre

A 21st-Century Leisure Destination

Location:

  • Liverpool

Scope:

  • RIBA Stages 3-6

Service:

  • Client Advisor
  • Delivery Lead
  • VR Creative lead

Value:

  • £10m

Situated on Whitechapel in the former General Post Office building, the shopping and leisure destination was originally launched as a high-end designer shopping center. Over the years, the venue has evolved to also include the Everyman Cinema, a campus for the LMA performing arts college, and various independent businesses.

Client

Queensberry Real Estate

A major refurbishment of Liverpool’s former Victorian Post Office is injecting new life into the city’s Mathew Street Quarter. Metquarter is 16,000 ft² of retail space in the heart of the city’s main retail area.

Working alongside Dutch designers T-Concept, we reimagined the building into a 21st-century leisure destination that plays host to a variety of aspirational lifestyle brands in retail and leisure, anchored around a new four-screen boutique cinema at its heart.

 

Acting as lead designer of a multi-disciplinary team, which required a strong understanding of the local masterplan (Cavern Quarter SRF) and the local authority’s development strategies for the area. The commission formed part of a larger mixed-use regeneration of the Metquarter as a whole, aimed at better integration with the surrounding retail and leisure offer in the area.

K2 Architects understand the changing face of retail and have been an integral part of the project, working closely with our Funders, Asset team and our retained concept architect. Their work is well executed and has transformed the whole feel and dynamic of the Metquarter for the better.

Paul Sargent
CEO, Queensberry Real Estate