THE OPEN 2014 AT ROYAL LIVERPOOL IN HOYLAKE My colleague and I, we have come for The Open 2014;and we are contentedly ensconced in our 23rd floor apartment, looking out, floor to ceiling windows, at both the languid Mersey River and the varied Liverpool skyscape; breathtaking. The range of architecture is quite engaging, classical to modern, featuring: domes and globes; a Ferris wheel in still form by day, seats unmoving, that emerges as a star in the evening; two Liverpool themed Liver-birds, be-decking impressive towers with huge working clocks of Roman numerals; a striking, shining, sky-reaching edifice, sister to our address, two panelled walls standing as gentle arcs, topped with building-wide steps sloping, reaching for the drifting clouds; two cathedrals, one, the Church of Rome, the other, of England; and a Habitat 67-Style building, featuring huge
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