There have been some pie in the sky schemes to transform parts of the city over the years and one such plan was to create a 'Manhattan on the Mersey'.
While many big money schemes, such as Liverpool One, have by-and-large been welcomed and even credited with regenerating parts of the city, there have been others that should have travelled from the drawing board straight to the bin. But who knows, perhaps if plans for the "cloud" fourth grace, or the 140-story waterfront tower proposed as Coca Cola's international headquarters had been built, they would have eventually become regarded as integral parts of the city's landscape, much like St Johns Tower.
In the 1970s, an incredibly ambitious £100m project, should it have come to fruition, would have completely altered Liverpool's waterfront vista. The Aquarius City project revealed plans to fill in the Albert Dock and knock down the now-iconic surrounding warehouses.
