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by **Fossil** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:51 pm

Anyone know what happen and why it did not get built?
http://www.arcadearchitects.com/glasgowtower.html

by **Pgcc93** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:27 am

Did they not decide that the Science Tower was enough?
One white elephant is plenty for this town.

There was a news item about the Science Tower the other night but I missed what was being said regarding its re-opening. Did anyone catch what the story was?.

by **Robert K** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 9:39 am

No one knows when that thing will open :) its just a thing to look at!

by **stinkpad** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 11:38 am

Pgcc93 wrote:There was a news item about the Science Tower the other night but I missed what was being said regarding its re-opening. Did anyone catch what the story was?.

I didn't catch the news but I was at the science centre the other week and there was a notice up saying that they might have a solution to the problems. Dunno if that was just to placate disappointed visitors or not though.

by **JayKay** » Mon Mar 15, 2004 1:30 pm

the news story is at:

http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.colo.ed ... stype=n1_1

In short- still no date for reopening.

by **cumbo** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 11:49 am

When the plans were originaly shown I thought it was a non starter
The foundations were huge and it would disturb the underground at St Enoch.

by **james73** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 12:02 pm

cumbo wrote:When the plans were originaly shown I thought it was a non starter
The foundations were huge and it would disturb the underground at St Enoch.

IIRC, the foundations for that thing were to 'straddle' the Underground.

James H

by **JamesMc** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 12:19 pm

JayKay wrote:the news story is at:

http://scotlandtoday.scottishtv.colo.ed ... stype=n1_1

In short- still no date for reopening.

Finally!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3590480.stm

JamesMc

by **Apollo** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 1:51 pm

Just caught the same on the news at lunchtime.

Shame its been doomed in the same article by having a comment made about by McAveety.

If memory serves me right, he may be the same (killer) clown that once urged us (the people of Scotland) to go forth and register .sc domains for Scotland, completely ignoring the small and insignificant fact that it already belonged to the Seychelles.

Apologies if I'm wrong, it was a while ago :oops:

by **AMcD** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 2:11 pm

I cannae remember McAveety mentioning it, though it sounds like something he might say, but I can remember one or two SNP MSPs raising questions in the Scottish Parliament about whether we could "seize" the '.sc' domain back from the Seychelles.

If I was the Seychelles I'd tell them exactly where they could go with that request....

by **Gazzathecoigne** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 3:21 pm

*At 127m, the tower has been hailed as Scotland's tallest free-standing structure. *

Not for long, once the India Street project gets underway.

by **Apollo** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 8:54 pm

They missed a chance with closure of the tower.

If they'd been on the ball, they'd have hired an IMAX camera and team, shot a visit into and up to the top of the tower with surrounding views, and then charged punters the original tower admission to go see the film in the adjacent IMAX cinema. Shot on a sunny and clear day, it would've been a winner, and given them a stream of folk eager to try it out for real when it was finally fixed and open for business.

Psst...Not tried IMAX yet? DO! (and be thankful you don't have to go to Bradford for it now

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