Liverpool has abandoned plans to build the Cloud, a 10-storey globe that “would have been the ‘Fourth Grace’ on the city’s Pier Head, joining three others landmarks, including the Liver building, known as the Three Graces. But yesterday the public sector partners involved in the scheme said it was “no longer viable” due to rising costs, design changes and potential planning problems. The structure, designed by Will Alsop, whose work includes the Peckham library in London, caused controversy in December 2002 when promoters announced it had won an architectural competition.”