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Otterspool Tower
| Otterspool Tower | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Never built |
| Type | Mixed-use |
| Location | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| Address | Festival Gardens Riverside Drive Liverpool L17 7EG |
| Coordinates | 53°22′25″N 2°57′30″W / 53.3736968°N 2.9582352°W |
| Cost | £750,000,000 (partial) |
| Height | 305 m (1,000 ft) |
| Technical details | |
| Floor count | 79 |
| Floor area | 400,000 m2 (4,300,000 sq ft) |
| Design and construction | |
| Architecture firm | Ruddle Wilkinson |
| Developer | Wiggins Group |
Otterspool Tower is a name commonly given to a supertall skyscraper that was proposed in Liverpool, United Kingdom.[2][3] Developers, Wiggins Group, first touted the idea in 1995 before moving forward with the proposal in 1998. Also dubbed the "Scousescraper", the building was set to be 305 m (1,000 ft) high and would have become the tallest building in Europe at the time. It was never built.
Part of a £750 million regeneration vision of the former Festival Gardens site, the "grandiose" tower was planned to be predominantly leisure based, including such features as a 2,500 bed five-star hotel, a theme park and a giant waterfall.[1]
However, following negative reception, the plans were ultimately confirmed scrapped in late 1999; the developers subsequently claimed the proposal had only ever been made to "test the water",[4] rather than being a truly serious concept.
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