Team led by Asif Khan and Adjaye triumphs in competition to transform Liverpool’s slave trade dock

Asif Khan Canning Dock

Scheme will see historic Canning Dock reimagined to tell the site’s controversial history

A team led by David Adjaye and Asif Khan has been announced as the winner of a competition to design a transformation of Liverpool’s historic Canning Dock.

The project will aim to tell the story of the controversial site’s links with the Atlantic slave trade with a new public realm and public art strategy.

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