The Unity scheme includes twin towers - one 27 storeys high and the other 16 storeys - on a site next to the Liverpool Thistle Hotel, in Chapel Street, opposite the Pier Head.

 

The futuristic design has been created by Liverpool-born architect Paul Monaghan, now a director with London-based Allford, Hall, Monaghan Morris.

 

It has been inspired by the work of world-famous French architect Le Corbusier's award winning residential block Unite d'Habitation, built in Marseilles in the 1940s - hence the name Unity for the Liverpool project.