Well I have to agree now with what Socceroo said a few pages back - to praphrase - the place is gubbed! Particularly now that the facade and first bay have been demolished. Not that this comforts me; I still find it sad.
In regards to the stilts, what I picked the guy up as saying was that the south eastern most portion of the fist bay is held up on stilts or columns due to the railway cutting running under it. These are employed on the embankments of the cutting (obviously - you can't put them on the track!)... here's a very rough diagram (unfortuanetly the satellite image is slightly askew so it doesnt seem he cutting runs too far under the building)
If you imagine the yellow lines define the track bed and the blue lines to be top of the embankment at ground level with the gradiented walls of the cutting being defined by the red hatched box - these are where the stilts/columns hold up the road deck and (formerly) part of the works. If you look on the pavement and road down there you will see this spray painted onto them to give the plant drivers a guide as to where was safe tto place any weight (either from plant or debris).
As Fossil hinted, it seems Scottish Balet and tier architects weren't aware of this and as a result are having to revise thier plans - so it's not all plain sailing for them!
Interesting too was the behind the scenes look in the Tramway where we saw all sorts of oddities like a giant dogs nipple (right hairy it was too!), a car (an actual one!) rolled up into a ball and, my favourite, a uge sheet of glass with a map of a city printed onto it. We couldn't decide where it was but it definately wasn't Glasgow - any ideas? Anyone remember seeing it before?