Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow, Shops, Store, Expansion, News, Location, Building

Buchanan Galleries, Glasgow : Information + Images

Shopping Mall : Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Buchanan Galleries Glasgow Address: Buchanan St, Glasgow Contact: 0141 333 9898 Buchanan Galleries - exterior: photographs © Adrian Welch News Update Dec 2010 Glasgow City Council Executive Committee approve business case for a Tax Increment Finance (TIF) Initiative to fund the £437m expansion of Buchanan Galleries, build a new 1500 space car park and undertake public realm works. Buchanan Galleries - interior: photographs © Adrian Welch The business case apparently identifies a funding gap of £56m that the developer can’t provide. The sum would be paid by Council borrowing with the debt paid back over 25 years by additional business rates generated from the development. Green Party MSP Patrick Harvie has asked the Scottish Government and the Scottish Futures Trust to reject the plan for TIF borrowing. News Update 2008 Scottish Government approve £400m extension Nov 2008 photographs © Adrian Welch Buchanan Galleries - Expansion Approved Nov 2007: Planning approval for Buchanan Galleries 65,030sqm shopping centre expansion. Planning consent subject to approval by Scottish Executive. The Buchanan Galleries shopping centre by Jenkins & Marr Glasgow is the largest city centre development in Scotland. The shopping mall opened in 1998 at the north end of Buchanan Street, adjacent to Queen Street Station and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. buchanan galleries: image © Adrian Welch The architecture is restrained and in a suitably civic large order. It uses a similar sandstone palette and orthogonal articulation to the adjacent Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. The Galleries area of 600,000 sqft of shops is set to increase following an announcement in April 2004 by the Buchanan Galleries owners - Slough Estates - for doubling the size of the shopping centre. Buchanan Galleries east of Buchanan Street includes around 80 shops. Major shops include a John Lewis store, Habitat, Next, Boots and Hennes. The John Lewis store and Habitat store include cafes. The Buchanan Galleries car park has 4,500 spaces. Nearest metro: Buchanan Street Buchanan Galleries - opening times Please check with the Shopping Mall: Mon-Wed, Fri, Sat: 9am-6pm Thu: 9am-8pm Sun:11am-5pm Buchanan Galleries store - John Lewis Glasgow John Lewis Store - photo © adrian welch Buchanan Galleries Expansion Major extension of Buchanan Galleries planned, to complete by 2010, new shops + redevelopment of Buchanan bus station Buchanan Galleries Atrium building – proposal 2007- BDP Buchanan Galleries Expansion - Consultation Joint owners Land Securities and Henderson Global Investors have launched a large public consultation exercise with a brief exhibition in the Galleries shopping centre and feedback forms. As reported on this site previously an application for outline planning consent for building extension is due soon. Reported budget for expansion of the Galleries is £100m. Air-rights extension east of the shopping centre over the railway and utilisation of the current car parking space will underpin the expansion. The existing car park is due to be removed and 'replaced' above the Bus Station. 23 Feb 2007

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Buchanan Street Award
Buchanan Street, Glasgow won a major international award for its new design by Gillespies. The long north-south street - a key Glasgow shopping destination - was refurbished by urban designers, Gillespies. The award was received by Gillespies for Glasgow at a ceremony in Chicago. The £10m Buchanan Street refurbishment project lasted six years and involved mbm arquitectes from Barcelona.

Buchanan Galleries shopping centre architects : Jenkins & Marr

Buchanan Galleries was built by the same contractors as the Museum of Scotland and the Scottish Parliament - Bovis.

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Buchanan Galleries cost £83m - the shopping centre completed Mar 1999

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