pingu wrote:i suspect it has been given a make over (like a lot of run down buildings lately) for the touristas thats about to flood the city for the games.
Nah - not convinced. They've spent a fortune on that building in recent years, between recladding the outside, doing up the entrances and putting new lifts in. Contrast that with the Colville Building, which they are definitely going to dispose of, and its being run into the ground.
The Architecture Building at the top of North Portland St is facing an uncertain future also - although there's a rumour afoot at the moment that Strathclyde are going to lend it to Glasgow School of Art whilst the Mackintosh building is being repaired.