The Spine, Paddington Village, Liverpool, Merseyside, L7

The Spine - from the bottom up

As you enter the building there will be a shared public area, complete with a warm welcome, living wall, café and an informal tiered events space, perfect for seminars and presentations. This will be managed by the RCP and they will be happy to explore potential collaboration or shared use.

To connect the foyer to the dedicated RCP exhibition space at mezzanine level, there will be a spiral staircase, encouraging interaction with the various displays that will focus on public health issues.

The building will also benefit from 74 bike spaces, showers, a drying room and under croft parking. Each of the floors, which are all c. 11,550 sq ft, will have extra high ceilings, advanced air purification, district heating systems and floor-to-ceiling glazing, providing some of the best views of the city centre and waterfront.

Although the top four floors will be home to the RCP, there will be an internal sky garden, complete with high-oxygen producing plants. This will include conference and events space, including fine dining, which will be available for private or commercial hire.

Designing a new building is no easy task. It not only needs to be innovative, iconic and inviting but it also needs to be complementary to its occupiers and environment. That's why, when it comes to The Spine, we won't settle for anything less than world-class.

The Spine - one of the world's healthiest buildings

The 14-storey, 160,000 sq ft building will not only be BREEAM Excellent rated but will also be one
of the first in the UK designed to achieve a WELL Standard Certification - making it one of the best working environments for mental health and physical wellbeing.
Using a biophilic design - an innovative way of designing the places in which we live, work and learn - The Spine's timber curtain wall system and unique ceramic frit facade, reconnects people with nature, creating a healthier environment that is proven to help productivity.

The ceramic frit facade, complete with 23 million unique voronoi polygons that mimic human
skin, wraps the building and reacts to the local environment, reducing glare and noise.
The Spine will also be Platinum WIRED Certified, meaning that it will not only be one of the healthiest buildings but also one of the most intelligent and will showcase best-in-class building connectivity. Affectionately named after the striking staircase that runs up the north elevation of the building, The Spine's lower and upper floors will be occupied by the prestigious Royal College of Physicians, who are opening their new Northern Centre of Excellence in summer 2020, with the remainder of the building available to pre-let to other health, science and education-focused occupiers.

Paddington Village

This £1bn flagship KQ Liverpool expansion site sitting at the eastern gateway to the city centre, has been earmarked as 1.8m sq ft of science, technology, education and health space.
The site is being developed in three phases: Paddington Central, Paddington South and Paddington North, with phase one now underway.

At 30 acres, Paddington is a sizeable urban village, inspired by the sense of community you'd find in the likes of Greenwich Village in New York.

Not only will it be a great place to live but it will be a great place to work, discover and socialise, with state of the art workspace, labs, cafés, restaurants, shops, accommodation, a hotel and teaching, examination and events space.

As the owner of the land, Liverpool City Council is working closely with a range of organisations and existing and potential new occupiers to secure new business and job-creating opportunities at the heart of the site.

In addition to the RCP's new Northern Centre of Excellence, RCP North, Paddington Central will
become home to Liverpool International College, a partnership between Kaplan and the University of Liverpool, Rutherford Cancer Centre North West and the recently announced Rutherford Diagnostics centre. The 12-storey international college will bring 45,000 sq ft of education and learning facilities and 262 residential bed spaces to the site, the Rutherford cancer centre is one of their first four pioneering proton beam cancer treatment centres to be built in the UK and the diagnostics centre will provide core technologies, such as CT, MR, PETCT, ultrasound, endoscopy and genomics.

Amenity

The Spine could not be better placed to access some of the city's best amenities. With countless shops at Liverpool ONE, a huge variety of casual dining outlets and cafés on Bold Street and some of the best cultural attractions, and fine dining restaurants on Hope Street, you will be spoilt for choice.