Glasgow: Architecture

Glasgow Harbour: £1.2bn invested in Glasgow’s waterfront

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Peel Holdings, the owners of Clydeport, have unveiled a revised masterplan for the Clyde Harbour development, with more than 30 hectares of the 52 hectare site being redesigned according to a report by the BBC.

The original proposals date from 2001, and have been modified to include a 30 storey skyscraper and a regional casino. Over […]

Gallery of Modern Art

Monday, January 2nd, 2006

The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the second most visited contemporary art gallery in the UK outside London, according to the GoMA page on the City Council’s website. It houses a mixture of temporary exhibitions alongside a permanent collection featuring works primarily by local and other British artists.

Formerly a private house, bank and library, […]

Princes Square: Boutique and designer shopping

Wednesday, December 28th, 2005

A cut above the ordinary, Princes Square is a shopping centre on Buchanan Street which hosts a range of relatively upmarket shops, along with a selection of restaurants.

The elegant building dates from 1841, and became Princes Square (with additional art nouveau atrium and sweeping escalators) in the mid-1980s; at the time it was a novel […]

Form Shop at the Lighthouse: Design gifts and housewares

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Form, the shop at the Lighthouse is perfect for gift shopping for artful friends, as well as stocking up on Moleskines.

It stocks a range of architecture and design books, mostly with a Glaswegian/Scottish/British slant as well as housewares and stationery, and the range of tongue-in-cheek birthday cards means that it’s a brilliant last stop shop […]

Neptune’s Way: Bridge linking Broomielaw and Tradeston

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

In 2003, Glasgow City Council approved Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP) as the preferred architects for the proposed Broomielaw-Tradeston bridge. RRP’s past projects include the Millennium Dome and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.

Aimed to spark regeneration as part of Scottish Enterprise’s International Financial Services District project, the £40M bridge will be completed in 2007. However, some […]