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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.
The Beresford is a former hotel situated at 460 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland.It opened in 1938 to provide accommodation for those attending the city's Empire Exhibition and was often described as Glasgow's first skyscraper, being the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the two world wars, at seven storeys high.
Sauchiehall Street looking westwards. At the eastern end of Sauchiehall Street is the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall and Buchanan Galleries, one of the largest city centre redevelopments in the UK. [13] Sauchiehall Street formerly linked directly to Parliamentary Road at its eastern end, which continued through Townhead to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
The Tolbooth Steeple dominates Glasgow Cross and marks the east side of the Merchant City.. To the east is the commercial and residential district of Merchant City.The Merchant City was formerly the residential district of the wealthy city merchants in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly the Tobacco Lords from whom many of the streets take their name.
Argyle Street is a major thoroughfare in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. With Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street , Argyle Street is one of the main shopping streets in the city centre. It is the longest street by distance in the city centre, [ citation needed ] running for 2.1 miles (3.4 km).
Savoy Centre Towers is a proposed 110 m (360 ft) mixed use skyscraper located at 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland.Planning application for the £80 million development [3] was submitted to Glasgow City Council in 2009 by Belfast based firm PBN Holdings Ltd., and plans were approved by Glasgow City Council in July 2010 subject to various grants and conditions.
Post-war there is the creative application of Functionalism in the work of Jack Coia and Brutalism elsewhere in the city’s redevelopment. The best of Glasgow's historic architecture was metropolitan in its ambition, as the Buildings of Scotland remarks: “A visitor with time to spare will find that the city centre is rich with remarkable ...
This is a list of tallest buildings in Glasgow which are at least 40m (131ft) in height in the largest city in Scotland. The current tallest structure, at 127 metres (417 ft), is the Glasgow Tower within the Glasgow Science Centre. The city's Cineworld building is currently the tallest cinema building in the world. [1]