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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Storm Newton

Architect's secret cheeky message on city centre building

Tucked away between the beating heart of Liverpool 's music scene and the city's main shopping streets is a sculpture with a cheeky past.

The little-known gorilla sculpture on Harrington Street in the city centre has links to boutique shopping arcade Cavern Walks, which opened in the 1980s and was designed by artist turned architect David Backhouse.

He told the ECHO: "It was Lord Norman Foster who said about me, 'an artist is to architecture like lipstick is to a gorilla'. Basically, saying I was irrelevant.

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