Look Inside Stunning 100-Year-Old Produce Exchange Being Turned Into Flats
Liverpool city centre building boasts stained glass and balconies with glass floors.
The video below show how the historic Produce Exchange in Liverpool is being converted into apartments.
The 1902 building hides a magnificent internal arcade complete with beautiful stained glass and glass-floored balconies.
It’s now being converted into 54 apartments by developer Foster Marlon, who vowed to preserve those stunning historic features in its £8m scheme.
The first show apartment has been completed, but most of the building is now full of scaffolding and contractors. The work could take another six months to complete.
Liverpool- based historic building specialist NS Architects has designed the scheme. Director Nick Serridge said: “This should all be back to its former glory once this work is done.”
Many of the apartments will be accessed from the arcade at the centre of the building.
The stained glass windows looking out over the arcade will be preserved and will become features in the bedrooms behind, with custom glazing added to keep out the noise. Those bedrooms will be mechanically ventilated because there are no outside windows.
Meanwhile 1cm thick secondary glazing will be added behind the historic street-facing windows in the flats’ living areas to minimise disturbance from the busy streets outside.
The balconies in the arcade are made of glass tiles, half of which are prism-shaped to reflect light upwards. From below, those triangular tiles look like rows of glass teeth.
Mr Serridge said: “We’re looking at underlighting the floors”.
The beautiful stained glass windows on the building’s main staircase have been partially boarded up for protection during building work but will be revealed again once the building is complete.
Foster Marlon is also building a metal-clad extension to the rear of the building.
Originally Published in: Liverpool Echo
