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The city is known for its tenements, [1] where a common stairwell is informally known as a close. [2][3] These were the most popular form of housing in 19th- and 20th-century Glasgow and remain the most common form of dwelling in Glasgow today. [4] Tenements are commonly bought by a wide range of social types and are favoured for their large ...
The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers were twin 31–storey brutalist tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Both towers contained 31 floors, and were the second highest public housing schemes in the United Kingdom behind the Barbican Estate in London. Officially named 109 Bluevale Street and ...
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 ...
Anniesland Court seen from the south west. Anniesland Court is a 22-storey residential tower block in the Anniesland area of Glasgow, Scotland, designed by J Holmes & Partners and completed in 1968. It is the tallest listed building in Scotland, and is remarkably similar to Ernő Goldfinger 's later and more famous Trellick Tower in London.
The Glasgow Tower, completed in 2001, at 127 m (417 ft) tall. St Andrew House, completed in 1964 and 71 m (233 ft) tall. Cineworld Glasgow, the tallest cinema complex in the world at 62 m (203 ft) tall. This is a list of tallest buildings in Glasgow which are at least 40m (131ft) in height in the largest city in Scotland.
Red Road Flats. The Eight Red Road Towerblocks in March 2009. All demolished by 2015. The Red Road Flats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate originally consisted of eight multi-storey blocks of steel frame ...
Wyndford. Wyndford is an area of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Located two miles (three kilometres) northwest of the city centre in Maryhill, Wyndford is bounded by Maryhill Road to the north and the River Kelvin to the south. The area comprises council housing that is typical of that which was built throughout Glasgow in the 1960s and 1970s.
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 . Although close to Baillieston and within the ...