Beautifully Functional

I have photographed today's subject previously, but not since I joined Blipfoto. I was introduced to it by noble maggie when we visited earlier this year and have been struck by it's beauty and elegance ever since.

There are three very famous and familiar building on the Pier Head at Liverpool which are collectively known as The Three Graces. Just behind The Port Authority Building, once home to the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board, is this beautiful building built in the early 1930's and made of Portland stone.

You can see the strong influences of both Egypt, King Tut's tomb had only been discovered a few years earlier in 1922, and the Art Deco movement. Definitely a building of it's time but the simple, elegant lines remain contemporary today.

It was built to serve very practical purposes, the offices of the Queensway Tunnel company and the central obelisk houses the ventilation shaft for the tunnel.