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Doesn't look as though much attempt is being made to save significant features so as usual get its down as fast as possible and worry later about justifying the fact that this doesn't comply with Planning and the Historic Environment National Planning Policy Guideline 18 part 51: 51. In cases of dem...
by Closet Classicist
Wed Jul 26, 2006 8:08 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Coplawhill Works falling down
Replies: 125
Views: 52739

Yeah since Tramway was refurbished it's been a long stated aim of GCC to find a use for the unoccupied bays. Scottish Ballet seemed to fit that bill but despite having conducted a through search of nearly 200 locations for their potential new HQ and then selecting Tramway as the best one, Scottish B...
by Closet Classicist
Wed Jul 26, 2006 7:26 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Coplawhill Works falling down
Replies: 125
Views: 52739

Hello all, Thank you for posting those images Flash Andy. Though much appreciated it is extremely depressing news as the organisation I am chair of has been conducting a low key (and about to heat up) campaign to save the Tramway Pollokshaws Road facade from intended demolition to pave the way for S...
by Closet Classicist
Wed Jul 26, 2006 6:22 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Coplawhill Works falling down
Replies: 125
Views: 52739

New Urbanism: a primer

Hello all! Haven't been on Hidden Glasgow in a while (no personal internet access at my new job which is doing me head in!) Anyway I have been asked to give another lecture to the Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland. It's on New Urbanism which is a recent architectural movement that's current...
by Closet Classicist
Mon Feb 20, 2006 7:31 pm
 
Forum: Forum Archive
Topic: New Urbanism: a primer
Replies: 0
Views: 1436

Went and spoke to one of the demolition workers today and the doorway would appear to have been demolished :roll: . Plus ca change...
by Closet Classicist
Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:16 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726

Yeah it was there at 7.45am yesterday but by the time I walked past at 7.20 pm it was gone. Was too dark to check the rubble then, so had to wait til this morning for a closer look. There's a fragment of the actual gray painted wooden door sticking out directly behind where the doorway used to be an...
by Closet Classicist
Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:07 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726

Sorry Socceroo, I got your drift with your earlier post. My post was directed at Toaster and was meant to reiterate yours :wink:! Anyway speaking of Buffalo Joes I'm intrigued to see how GM+AD are going to build the office block with the nightclub remaining in operation through out. Not an easy task...
by Closet Classicist
Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:10 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Renfield Lane Mackintosh
Replies: 24
Views: 13609

No its not buffalo joes. Different side of Hope street! This is actually two separate buildings. The one fronting Hope Street is the 'A' listed Scottish Temperance Society Headquarters by the firm Salmon and Son i.e the same architects who did the Hatrack on St Vincent Street. James Salmon Jnr speci...
by Closet Classicist
Mon Oct 31, 2005 6:38 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Renfield Lane Mackintosh
Replies: 24
Views: 13609

Having passed by every morning and evening for the last few days I was full of hope that this doorway surround could be saved. Now I'm not so sure. The contractor started clearing the site yesterday and in doing so has piled a storey and a half height pile of building debris directly behind it. Cons...
by Closet Classicist
Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:22 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726

I'd spotted that too escotregen and was pleased to see Geoffrey Jarvis's letter today. Until now all riverside developments have raised their buildings' ground floor levels to get above the 1 in 500 year flood level datum (though with global warming this does keep getting higher! The Science Centre ...
by Closet Classicist
Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:39 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Underneath the Kelvin
Replies: 2
Views: 2307

If anyone is passing the demolition site today can they keep an eye out for what is happening and let us know? Having walked past last night and at 7.40am this morning it looks as though they are going to make the effort to retain the doorway. The contractors have managed to get the west part of the...
by Closet Classicist
Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:47 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726

I've actually been a bit of a busybody about this and have been in touch with both Glasgow city council's Heritage and Design department and Historic Scotland as well as other civic bodies concerning this. Such was the state of the building after the fire that it's currently being demolished under E...
by Closet Classicist
Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:08 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726

Yep Pollokshields was earmarked by GCC to go the same way. Which is why the deck access flats in St Andrews Drive were built. Sadly they replaced some of the earliest and most interesting villas in the UK's first garden suburb. Several Greek Thomson villas and Boucher and Cousland's very own swiss c...
by Closet Classicist
Wed Oct 19, 2005 6:17 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Lost Villas in Shawlands
Replies: 26
Views: 19401

Well lost my bet. Wrecking crew are up and running and half the building was demolished when I walked past first thing this morning. Hope they have enough nous to save the doorway.
by Closet Classicist
Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:39 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726

The wrecking rig was parked in front this morning plus two fire crews outside Burnet's 'A' listed Waterloo chambers...
by Closet Classicist
Fri Oct 14, 2005 8:00 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Yet another city centre fire
Replies: 34
Views: 17726
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