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The Ard (Scottish Gaelic: An Àrd, meaning "high"), is an approved 36-storey skyscraper in the Blythswood Hill area of Glasgow, Scotland. [1] The development was formally submitted to Glasgow City Council in 2021 by Watkin Jones Group, with the original proposals seeking to construct a 33-storey "co-living" development in Glasgow City Centre.
Charing Cross is a major road junction and area within the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.It is situated north of the River Clyde at the intersection of Sauchiehall Street, St George's Road, Woodlands Road, North Street and Newton Street, [1] as well as being at a major interchange of the M8 motorway, which runs beneath in a subterranean cutting.
Portcullis House (PCH) is an office building in Westminster, London, England, that was commissioned in 1992 and opened in 2001 to provide offices for 213 members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom and their staff. The public entrance is on the Embankment.
Elmbank Gardens is a multi-use commercial complex (and the name given to a former street) in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, Scotland.Best known for its signature 13-storey tower (often nicknamed the Charing Cross Tower or the Elmbank Tower) which overlooks the M8 motorway and stands directly opposite the Mitchell Library, it was designed by Richard Seifert and constructed between 1970 and ...
Boadicea and Her Daughters is a bronze sculptural group in London representing Boudica, queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising in Roman Britain.It is located to the north side of the western end of Westminster Bridge, near Portcullis House and Westminster Pier, facing Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster across the road.
The portcullis was the heraldic badge of the House of Beaufort, and the first Tudor king, Henry VII, who was of matrilineal Beaufort descent, adapted both the portcullis and the Tudor rose into Royal badges of the House of Tudor. Since then, the portcullis has been a moderately common motif of English heraldry, especially that heraldry dating ...
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The four buildings at the front, are: New Scotland Yard, to the right, the Norman Shaw Buildings (centre) and Portcullis House, to the left, on Victoria Embankment. The stone-fronted, stripped classical building was designed by the English architect William Curtis Green. [2] Construction started in 1935 and finished five years later.