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medical education facility designed with an unusual amount of research behind it has emerged


in Paddington Village, a new part of Liverpool designated as the ‘Knowledge Quarter.’ It was conceived when the city council and university came together to develop a vast heath campus, adjacent to the Royal Liverpool Hospital and Clatterbridge Cancer Centre, the latter formerly being located on a site in the Wirral.


The venerable Royal College of Physicians (RCP), established in 1518, approached Liverpool, Manchester and


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Leeds in 2016 as it was looking to expand its physician training centre out of London, after being based in the capital for 500 years. “They were perceived as being very London-centric,” says Robert Hopkins, architect and director at AHR, but that the college “had changed a lot in that time,” and wanted to be closer to its members across the country.


Despite an original assumption that the college might end up in Manchester, he says the offer from Liverpool “was so compelling,” that they “sensed there was a real partnership there, and that they were going to part of the city’s vision for health.”


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