Match made in heaven

The Matchbox’s emphatic external frame could have carried substantial loads, but is purely aesthetic.

Shed KM’s Matchbox building for developer Urban Splash, next to the former Bryant & May match factory in Liverpool, is a striking Miesian office block that links old and new, reports Peter Blundell Jones. Photos by Morley von Sternberg

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