Green light for Asif Khan and Theaster Gates’ Liverpool docks transformation

Canning Dock 4

Source: Asif Khan Studio

Team to create place for contemplation in former dry dock used in the Atlantic slave trade

Plans by Asif Khan and US artist Theaster Gates to transform Liverpool’s historic Canning Dock have been given the green light.

The £15m development will see a dry dock built in 1765 become accessible to the public as a space for education, contemplation and recreation.

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