Stunning look for Edge Hill station project

May 1 2008 by Phil Key, Liverpool Daily Post

LIVERPOOL’S Edge Hill Station, the setting for a new arts community, is to get a stunning look for its disused approach.

It will be the second of three so-called pavilions created for communities in Merseyside as part of the European Capital of Culture year.

Last weekend saw the community educational organisation, Rotunda, in Kirkdale, get a specially designed community garden alongside its building.

This was designed by landscape architects Gross Max, and has its own folly with a vertical garden inside with spaces for activities and events.

The second of the pavilions commissioned by the Liverpool Culture Company and managed by the Liverpool Biennial will open to the public on Saturday at Edge Hill Station, where the organisation Metal has set up an arts community.

Artist and architect, father and son team Luis Fernando Pelaez and Juan Manuel Pelaez, from Columbia, have been designing a sea of columns which they title Nexus.

The space will play host to a variety of events throughout the year. The third pavilion will be based on an old school building in Garston.

Artist Michael Trainor has worked with the Garston Cult-ural Village to trans- form the Edwardian school into the “Artistic Republic of Garston” which will have its own flag and passport. It will open on May 31.