The public sector partners involved in the scheme said it was "no longer viable" due to rising costs, design changes and potential planning problems.
Liverpool's preparations for its year as European Capital of Culture in 2008 suffered a setback yesterday when plans for a waterfront building designed by one of Britain's most adventurous architects were scrapped.
The people of the city did not take to it, and wrote to the newspapers in their hundreds to make their feelings clear. There were also doubts about whether the Cloud would be ready for Liverpool's big year - even if work started as planned next January.
The Guardian
previously: 'It's a cowpat': the verdict on Alsop's vision of a Liverpool landmark
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I'd be interested to read more about the vociferous opposition to this project. It seems extreme. Was it truly grassroots, or organized by outside interests?
Here's another news story .
Well as I mentioned before I got some letters about this project out of the blue. Here is a sample:
Jan 20 2004
Liverpool Echo
Down pour
THE designers of "The Cloud" want the people of Liverpool to get behind the project. "It is important that we work together to make it the jewel in the city's crown" says project director for the cloud Christophe Egret.
Has he forgotten that not so long ago large sums of public money were wasted by Liverpool Vision on a pointless public consultation which led to the least popular building, The Cloud, being chosen as the fourth Grace.
Now another public consultation is being held.
Why? Sorry to appear a little reluctant to get behind The Cloud. It is being forced on us by public bodies, who do not appear to be answerable to anyone. The supporters of this monstrosity appear to be the council, Liverpool Vision, the North West Development Agency and Will Alsop.
The people of Liverpool voted against The Cloud, so do not expect them to get behind a design they did not want. I have been an objector to a building on this site from the ouset and believe me, if we had meeting of the people who I have spoken to, who do not want a so called 4th Grace we would fill Anfield and Goodison Park.
Which telephone box would the supporters of The Cloud meet in?
Philip Coppell,
Waterloo
CLOUD architect Will Alsop has reached the conclusion there's "a bit of a disease in Liverpool" that people don't believe anything good can happen here, in contrast to Manchester. I take this strange statement to mean that we do not like his Cloud design.
We are being very positive, we positively do not want his Cloud. I am prepared to stand on Church Street and collect names of people who do not want the Cloud. I invite Mr Alsop to do the same, collecting names of people who do want the Cloud.
I believe that I will have collected far more names than Mr Alsop.
Philip Coppell,
Liverpool 22
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