Buchanan Street Glasgow : Information + Images

Award for Glasgow Street Buchanan St, Glasgow won a major international award for its new design by Gillespies. The lighting is coloured blue and supplied by Mike Stoane Lighting. image by Paul Bock from MSL 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. looking up Buchanan St © adrian welch Refurbishment by Martorell Bohigas & Mackay - MBM Architects - of Barcelona Gillespies were also involved in Finnieston Bridge across the Clyde in Glasgow building near Princes Square © adrian welch Buchanan Street Tea Rooms photograph © Adrian Welch Buchanan Street Tea Rooms Key Buildings on Buchanan Street Buchanan Street Tea Rooms by Rennie Mackintosh: see Willow Tea Rooms Princes Square by Hugh Martin Partnership: image © adrian welch Princes Square Buchanan Galleries by Jenkins & Marr Architects: The Buchanan Galleries shopping centre opened in 1998 at the north end of Buchanan Street. The Buchanan Galleries architecture is restrained and in a suitably civic large order. The Galleries area of 600,000 sq ft is set to increase following an announcement in April 2004 by the Buchanan Galleries owners - Slough Estates - for doubling of size. . Buchanan Galleries east of Buchanan Street includes around 80 shops: John Lewis, Habitat, Next, Boots and Hennes. John Lewis and Habitat include cafes. The Buchanan Galleries car park has 4,500 spaces. Nearest metro: Buchanan Street

No. 85 Buchanan St is by Gillespie Kidd & Coia, 1970: being refurbished 2005-

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