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A typical Glasgow tenement block. Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings. Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, deindustrialisation and growing poverty in the late 20th century, and civic rebound in the 21st century.
The house forms part of Park Circus, the focal point of the high-end area known as the Park district of the West End of the city. Built to the designs of architect Charles Wilson in the mid-nineteenth century, [2] the area sits atop Woodlands Hill and is named for its proximity to Kelvingrove Park, which it overlooks. Park Circus itself sits on ...
Broomhouse (Scots: Bruimhoose) [1] is a residential area in Glasgow, Scotland.It is about six miles (ten kilometres) east of the city centre. Historically a small mining village and later the site of the Glasgow Zoo, in the early 21st century it grew substantially as an affluent commuter suburb.
Croftfoot (Scots: Croaftfuit, Scottish Gaelic: Bun a' Chroit) [1] is a residential area on the southeastern side of the Scottish city of Glasgow.It is bordered by Castlemilk to the south and King's Park (both the public park and the residential neighbourhood) [2] to the west within Glasgow, and by the Rutherglen areas of Spittal to the east and Bankhead to the north (across the Cathcart Circle ...
The Right to Buy scheme is a policy in the United Kingdom, with the exception of Scotland since 1 August 2016 and Wales from 26 January 2019, which gives secure tenants of councils and some housing associations the legal right to buy, at a large discount, the council house they are living in. [1] [2] [3] There is also a Right to Acquire for assured tenants of housing association dwellings ...
Until after World War II when the houses were built (most being three or four-storey tenements as well as some modest terraced houses), [10] the only building of significance in the area [11] [12] was Auldhouse Mansion which dates from the 1630s, is one of the oldest houses in Glasgow [7] [13] and still stands today, being owned originally by John Maxwell, Lord Pollok [14] [15] and later ...
Penilee was brought into the city of Glasgow with the boundary extension of 1938, and work began on a planned community to house workers at the nearby Hillington Industrial Estate. Some evidence of modernist architecture can be seen in the houses illustrated here, such as the flat roofs, horizontal windows and ship-deck balcony rails.
St Andrew House (now styled as the Premier Inn Glasgow Buchanan Galleries) is a prominent high-rise building in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.. It has been a prominent landmark on the eastern end of the city's Sauchiehall Street since the mid-1960s when it was completed, and was one of the first post-war high rise buildings in the city centre.