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moonbeam wrote:Labour have been in power in George Square for 40 years and despite a complete industry being generated round "regeneration" and "poverty" things are not better. Despite £s being thrown into various "projects". Time for a radical rethink?
Dexter St. Clair wrote:moonbeam wrote:Labour have been in power in George Square for 40 years and despite a complete industry being generated round "regeneration" and "poverty" things are not better. Despite £s being thrown into various "projects". Time for a radical rethink?
What don't spend any money.
Monument wrote:Bingo Bango wrote:Great - credit where credit is due.
Tell that to the 6 companies/teams that devoted resources to a doomed (yet again GCC?) design competition on a short timescale.
The council will find it increasingly difficult to get anyone with an ounce of sense to enter any future competitions as their record is so dismal.
At least five out of the six would have been a waste of time anyway.
Bingo Bango wrote:
Part of the issue with George Square and such like is there is no real cultural engagement in this country on design and specifically architectural design. Our engineering and architecture of the past is lauded and rightly so - but there is frankly derision rightly or wrongly for what we can do today, without the understanding of how different the built environment is and needs to be. I too would like to see the square restored with green space and high quality ground materials only, but do not reject the proposals on offer simply because they are new.
SomeRandomBint wrote:There were aspects of all the designs which I liked. But none of them really grabbed me as a whole concept.
I find it interesting that the thing I've heard most from people all around Glasgow is how much they miss the green space in the centre of the city. There's little point in allocating all this space for corporate events if the void that it creates is not usable enough to attract people to make George Square an actual destination in their day to day lives.
Bingo Bango wrote:Thing is, everything needs upkeep and maintenance. Public spaces are a responsibility - of the council - to maintain, and the public - to use in a manner befitting of them.
Glasgow though seems to be spectacularly bad at the upkeep side of things. .
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