Talk:Port of Liverpool Building

Suggestion
I think it would be really helpful if the costs for the building could show what the money is worth today.

I found this website which can convert the money from different times:

According to it:

£250,000 in 1907 is today worth £19,709,435.48

and

£350000 in 1907 is today worth £27,593,209.68

Can these be used in the article? I suggest rounding them.  Tsange  ► talk 19:34, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
 * If they are reliable they probably would be a good addition, but I wouldn't like to say because I've never come across that website before --Daviessimo (talk) 09:16, 13 February 2010 (UTC)

There is a similar website here You select the year you want the currency converted from, then the ammount and it will then convert it to moden day ammounts / standards. The website goes as far back as 1270. Ijustwannabeawinner (talk) 09:31, 9 May 2018 (UTC)

Some notes from GAN
I'm not an expert in English style, but it seems that often simple statements are embellished with too many words. Do something about which (too many sentences like "Here is A, which is B", two "which" in one sentence).

Bits and pieces:
 * "reinforced concrete frame, which not only made the building structurally strong, but also fire resistant" - appears twice. Nothing is absolutely fire resistant; in the first instance the relativity is pointed out, but not in the second one. Also it raises a question - is fire resistance a matter of all-round cladding of concrete columns in stone (stone-clad concrete vs. bare concrete) or of concrete as such (concrete vs. masonry).
 * I've clarified that the fire resistance was relative and was important because it was such a rare feature for a building at this time


 * "given that a large portion of the building costs were spent on decorations and fittings, the inside of the building is lavishly decorated using expensive materials ... " - what's the point of this juxtaposition? Sounds redundant. And if you simply say "a large portion was spent ..." I beg you say just how large. 5%? 15%? (two numbers stated, 250 and 350 thousand, don't say much on the subject). Seriously, take a look at financials if you could. Finishes often look deceptively rich but in fact are just a few per cent of building cost.
 * I've removed the 'given that', which shouldn't have been there and added an approximate figure. It is mentioned earlier in the article that the building cost £250,000 to built with a further £100,000 on furnishings. As you can see from the talk above there is a website that can convert figures into a modern equivalent, but I wasn't sure how reliable the source was


 * "Asphalt was coated all around the basement, including on the floors and walls, in order to make sure it stayed dry". Did yoy mean "They coated ashphalt with something else ..." or simply "Floors and walls of the basement were coated with asphalt for moisture protection"? In this case all sounds odd, moisture protection does not require sealing all surfaces (quite the opposite).
 * I've re-worded this to clarify that the asphalt coverage was extensive and that is was asphalt that was doing the covering


 * "Nonetheless the building's structural integrity from its reinforced concrete design, meant that much of the building could be re-occupied with only temporary repairs" - again too many words for a simple statement.
 * I've removed the reasoning for the structural integrity to make the sentence shorter


 * "A sixth level of the building, which had been 'dismantled' in the aftermath of the Second World War was also to be restored providing a series of luxury apartments". I'd recommend moving the fact of dismantled floor into WW2 section.
 * Personally I don't think this needs to move, otherwise you are going to repeat the 'dismantling part twice in several sentences'. The restoration of the floor is more notable than its dismantling, which was just part of the repairs made post ww2


 * "building's form is structured around a full height hall" - "structured" seems to be the wrong word here. Perhaps "centered" or "the hall ties together the floorplans" (just like Big Lebowsky's rug tied the room together :)).
 * changed to centered


 * "that would fully restore the Grade II* listed building" - description that follows completely contradicts definition of "restoration": too many significant changes for true restoration. Rehabilitation, perhaps?
 * It may appear as if the work carried out was significant, but it was in fact only superficial and as such was a 'restoration'. The building was in use before the work and there was nothing actually wrong with it. It was just the whole building was given a facelift, to make it look brand new (i.e. new fittings, electrics, plumbing, cleaning to stonework, repairing worn and damaged stonework etc)

Regards, NVO (talk) 10:51, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've made some changes to the article based on the points above and explained what I have done. Regarding the 'which' issue, I can change some of these if you really want, but as it is only really an issue of grammatical preference, I'm wary of changing too much, unless of course it will stop the article gaining GA status. Cheers --Daviessimo (talk) 11:39, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 25% on finishes? lucky bastards, did they get land and utility hookup for free? I'm more used to 25% left for all construction costs. Oh well, it was a century ago. Another suggestion: the only clue as to the building's dimension (80 ft) is hidden somewhere in Architecture; I recommend moving dimensions ("264 ft by 216 ft, and from the pavement to main cornice the height is 80 ft") to a more prominent place. These grand office buildings have deceptive looks (a floor can be eigth meters high or only three) that don't convey scale well. NVO (talk) 13:54, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
 * I've added the full dimensions to the architecture section and the height into the intro and infobox. Unfortunately the source doesn't say which figure is the depth and which is the width. I suspect it is deeper than wide as is the case with the two other Pier Head buildings, but I wouldn't like to say for definite. --Daviessimo (talk) 21:46, 16 February 2010 (UTC)

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