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The design was meant to echo the structure of a traditional Glasgow Tenement lying on its side. Each of the 7 levels comprises 18 homes – 6 upstairs two-bedroom flats, 6 downstairs two-bedroom flats and 6 single one-room flats with level access off the main corridor. [2] They have full kitchens and bathrooms the same as the two-bed flats.
Tenements in the Morningside area of Edinburgh, featuring atypical decorative lintels, built 1880. A tenement is a type of building shared by multiple dwellings, typically with flats or apartments on each floor and with shared entrance stairway access. They are common on the British Isles, particularly in Scotland.
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 ...
Townhead (Scottish Gaelic: Ceann a' Bhaile, Scots: Tounheid) is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of Glasgow's oldest areas, and contains two of its major surviving medieval landmarks – Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship. In medieval times, Townhead was the gateway into Glasgow from the north, while today it ...
Public housing became needed to provide "homes fit for heroes" in 1919, [4] [5] then to enable slum clearance.Standards were set to ensure high-quality homes. Aneurin Bevan, a Labour politician, passionately believed that council houses should be provided for all, while the Conservative politician Harold Macmillan saw council housing "as a stepping stone to home ownership". [6]
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 ...