Oriel Chambers, designed by architect Peter Ellis…

Oriel Chambers, designed by architect Peter Ellis and built in 1864, is the world's first metal framed glass curtain walled building.

Located on Water Street near to the town hall in Liverpool, England, it comprises forty-three thousand square feet four thousand square meters) set over five floors.

Its simplified forms and large windows mean that the building initially courts controversy, being described as "an agglomeration of great glass bubbles" and even "a great abortion", which leads to the disheartened Ellis abandoning architecture.