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I really like the way the Clyde is evolving. The Squiggly Bridge is a very original design and enhances all the new structures along the River. I think these are exciting times with the old image of Glasgow’s industrial riverside dereliction finally being banished to be replaced by what must be the most stylish river front development anywhere in the UK. The new transport museum, another fabulous and innovative design, will be a totally awesome when complete.

My only real criticism is the BBC Studio. It is outrageously bland and boring. A box of glass panels without a curve in sight?? My 9 year old son could have made a better job!!!

The photos on this thread are pure brill by the way!!

What exactly is the point of this bridge? It's less than 200m away from the George V Bridge to the east. On the other hand, there isn't another opportunity for pedestrians and cyclists to cross the river to the west for another 1.5 km until the Squinty Bridge.

It's no use as part of a cycle route either, as going southward it dumps you into oncoming traffic on one-way West Street!

Rucola wrote:What exactly is the point of this bridge?

It'll shave about a minute off my walk to work...money well spent.

i think it's going to join the squinty bridge as a new photographer's favourite though. I took a few last weekend whilst out on a walk about:


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Few from me of the squiggly




AND a la ned scum way that rules this once lovely city..even the new bridge has been tagged...

DICK

It was only a matter of time before the grafiti started,image from mr moto a few weeks ago.

I like that one mori, thought gone into it..art as well as graffiti...mine is just a mindless yob/dick/degenerate/chav/scumbag

Here is a time lapse of the building of the Bridge

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2qMTxgJPBk

Skinto

thats a great video, a years worth of work condensed into 5 minutes

Rucola wrote:What exactly is the point of this bridge? It's less than 200m away from the George V Bridge to the east. On the other hand, there isn't another opportunity for pedestrians and cyclists to cross the river to the west for another 1.5 km until the Squinty Bridge.

It's no use as part of a cycle route either, as going southward it dumps you into oncoming traffic on one-way West Street!

I had forgotten about this post till I popped down to take a look this afternoon. 200m? It's nearer 20m. I was expecting to find it almost under the Kingston Bridge.

Broomielaw Pavilions

Location:Glasgow City Centre, IFSD
Address: Broomielaw, Glasgow
Type: Current
Description:A stylish new £10m restaurant quarter is to be created on the waterfront within Glasgow city centre.

Glasgow City Council has chosen Wilson Bowden to develop 30,000 ft2 of pavilions which will house a series of bars, restaurants and cafes on the banks of the River Clyde at the Broomielaw, adjacent to the city’s International Financial Services District.



Cost
£10m

Current status
Planning permission will be sought 2009

Lead partner
Wilson Bowden

Other partners
Glasgow City Council

Project team
Capella Consultancy, Development Management

Contact details
Jim Fitzsimon, Wilson Bowden, 0141 221 2425, [email protected]

Mori wrote:

someone's taken the advice:

Oh aye and next it'll be head lines like, George parsonage hauls Skate board & Bmx gangs from the clyde.

Bingo Bango wrote:

mr moto wrote:
whats the problem with glass? thermally it can be made to work quite well, and its not all glass there - i would take that any day over a rendered wall....

I wouldn't - my hubbie's a brickie - out of work

Ohhhh luvely, a nice new Marina it'll maybe gives me a chance to bring ma Schooner up ra Clyde.

Marina plan for Clyde


New role for old city dock

GLASGOW is to have its own marina as part of plans to rejuvenate the city's Clyde waterfront.
Scottish Enterprise, the national regeneration and jobs agency, will this week outline plans for a 300-berth dock next to Glasgow Science Centre on the south bank of the river.
Developers are being asked to help turn an area of the old Prince's Dock into a hub of maritime activity.
Scottish Enterprise is open to suggestions for floating restaurants or offices, and island' sites for hotels and house boats. The canting basin, an area created to allow ships to could turn, is one of the last free areas of open water on the riverside, now that most of the former docks have been filled.