PAUL - Liverpool / Brooklyn dock site

Photo taken here from here, roughly:
http://goo.gl/maps/0AM4d


 Paul, your site on LIverpool's docks reminds me a little (geographically, historically, though perhaps not socially (??) with Brooklyn's front on the East River. Of course Liverpool and New York were once directly connected through shipping. I suggest you have a look into recent dock-side / pier developments in Brooklyn, and perhaps also on Manhattan's other side, on the Hudson. You will no doubt have heard of Williamsburg, the waterfront area of Brooklyn which over the past few years has become more perhaps even more fashionable than Manhattan for creative types. It's following a similar path to Mitte/Prenzlauerberg/Kreuzberg/Neukolln in Berlin, Hackney Wick in east London, and even my own Margate in the UK, using (relatively) cheap building stock, old industrial spaces, etc for artists to colonise.

Have you looked into the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art?

http://www.biennial.com/

I know one of the curators if you're interested in pursuing research into this. Im sure they adopt / build / temporarily inhabit spaces in very interesting ways.

Check this out, from 2006 by the Office for Subversive Architecture:

OSA Liverpool Biennial