Gorbals development
Willie Haughey proposal for major housing scheme + business park + hotel
on a derelict Laurieston site granted outline planning approval; includes
demolition of two 1960s tower blocks
Friary Court - image © Keith Hunter from Page/Park Aug 2006
Crown Street housing
Latest images from Oct 2005 - scroll down page to 'CZWG Housing' + Latest
Housing Completions, 2005
Glasgow housing - image © adrian welch
This is a regeneration project south of the Clyde using some of Glasgow's
most highly-rated contemporary architects:
2A
Page & Park: won a Saltire Award in
2001 with John Dickie Construction Ltd
3A
Elder & Cannon: won a Saltire
Award in 2001 with John Dickie Construction Ltd
5&6
Hypostyle Architects:
new gorbals: images from hypostyle architects
1850 homes have been built in New Gorbals:
Crown Street - 900
Gorbals East - 350
Queen Elizabeth Square - 600
CZWG
- Edinburgh Building for reference
CZWG PR at the base of this page
Hypostyle Architects - New Gorbals :PR
Crown Street Phases 5 & 6 are the final phases of the critically acclaimed
New Gorbals redevelopment in conjunction with Redrow Homes. Comprising
a total of 203 town houses, flats and duplex apartments, this completion
of the New Gorbals masterplan follows on from the success of Hypostyle's
earlier Phase 2B development.
This development has a balanced contemporary feel in form, materials and
scale. At the South West junction of Caledonia Road and Cathcart Road,
two arterial roads into Glasgow City Centre, the massing rises up each
side of twin stone towers to a larger scale befitting a major city gateway.
This gateway status is further enhanced wit the incorporation of one of
the city's largest new civic artworks 'the Gatekeeper' by artist group
Heisenberg.
New Gorbals Phases 5 & 6 PR: 2003
Latest Housing Completions, 2005:
Glasgow housing - image © adrian welch
Elder & Cannon Architects (images left, middle); Holmes Partnership
(right)
'Regency Square' by Holmes Partnership, for Stewart Milne Homes, was scheduled
as Queen Elizabeth Square phase 1
Andrew Lee photo from Holmes Partnership
The sculpture in front is Kenny Hunter's 'Girl with a Rucksack'
CZWG Housing
Latest images from Oct 2005:
Glasgow housing - image © adrian welch
Crown Street - CZWG Architects
crown street:
image from czwg architects 2005
PR: CROWN STREET CORNER - GORBALS, GLASGOW
DESIGN DESCRIPTION
The Crown Street project is a 18 ha predominantly residential mixed-use
scheme in Gorbals. After more than ten years of construction on site,
it is nearing completion. There are mainly four-storey urban blocks of
mixed tenure housing around shared communal gardens. Wide boulevards link
neighbouring communities east to west across the scheme and bring them
to the narrower Crown Street, the principal shopping street of the area,
which runs from north to south.
Crown Street is contiguous with the Albert Bridge leading to the High
Street across the Clyde. But a 70’s urban dual carriageway: Laurieston
Road cuts across this alignment from the southwest (following the footprint
of a never constructed motorway flyover).
The Masterplan, which was designed by CZWG after a competition, envisaged
a substantially higher building at the north end of Crown Street which
was to act as a landmark for the regenerated area. In townscape terms
it placed an urban buffer that rationalised the swing of Laurieston Road
to the east and also announced the change in status of the road south
from multi lane dual carriageway to two way shopping street.
The final piece of the masterplan jigsaw is the triangular block defined
by Laurieston Road, Crown Street and Errol Gardens to the south. There
are three sites to be developed, one at the northern corner for a church
designed by ADF Architects, the south east corner has a mixed use of public
library, shops and commercial offices above, also designed by ADF Architects.
Through our clients Cruden Estates we are responsible for a residential
scheme on the northeast corner at the junction of Laurieston Road and
Crown Street. The three sites time share some of the car parking in the
central courtyard of the block.
The ancient line of Old Rutherglen Road follows its curving route from
the far southeast of the site. It sets up another potential major landscape
vista at the end of its wide boulevard where it meets Crown Street.
The proposed building is part gushet building, part tower. The gushet
element splits the curving Laurieston Road from Crown Street at about
45?. The elevation to the latter is four stories with a set back fifth
in line with the other buildings in the street. To the former, a height
of six stories reflects the increased scale of the dual carriageway and
holds the forceful curve of that highway.
The tower is placed axially and orthogonally at the end of Old Rutherglen
Road, making a dramatic termination to this long boulevard. Its orientation
is thus twisted 8? from that of Crown Street. The width of the tower at
11m is equivalent to the elevational height of the eaves/parapets of neighbouring
buildings (approximately 12m). Its top three floors are twisted back to
the alignment of Crown Street. These floors are 12.5m on each face canting
out over the lower part on three sides. These lower eleven stories have
a depth circa 20m.
The widening of the top element of the tower is an abstracted development
of the Castle Tower form of Scottish baronial architecture. Out east of
the site is the example of the Old Town Hall of Rutherglen itself. No
doubt, it in turn was based on the example of the Toolbooth Steeple of
the High Street due north of this site.
The tower is set some 2m forward of the Crown Street elevation. This projection
(facilitated by the lack of car parking on the road junction turntable)
allows the position of the tower to be read in the street from the long
vista up Crown Street from the south as well as from the north and beyond
to the bridge and across the river.
The brick elevations have window openings that emphasise the orientation
of the building element. The tower has double height openings in vertical
echelon. The gushet block has similar proportioned horizontal windows
in the same pattern. There are pitched roofs to the Laurieston Road part
of the building and the tower has four sequential mono pitched gable roofs
to each façade. Elsewhere flat roofs make terraces for the flats.
Balconies, principally on the tower, are stepped across the facades (rather
than one above the next).
The building is entered at the base of the tower on Crown Street. The
residential entrance hall is flanked by display windows for changing art
installations. The remainder of the ground floor is for service rooms,
bin store and a car park to partially provide for residents of the building.
There are two flats per floor in the lower floors of the tower, and 1
flat per floor in the upper part. These are served by a lift and a staircase,
which also give access to the flats of the gushet building in which there
is an additional escape stair. The top two floors behind Laurieston Road
elevation are arranged as four maisonettes with large south facing roof
terraces at their upper levels.
This tower and gushet building acts as a landmark and celebration of the
completion of the successful Crown Street project. Unlike the overscaled
blocks of multis remaining in the vicinity, its scale and proportions
are concomitant to the tenemental buildings of the masterplan. It identifies
the heart of the busy public uses of the area - the shops and the library-
balancing the quieter open space of the public park at the south end of
Crown Street.
Scottish
Architecture
Glasgow walking tours
Glasgow News : back to index
New Gorbals Housing Association
Outline plans submitted by Page
and Park Architects for a £4.2m development of 94 flats and 2 shops
Apr 05
New Gorbals Housing Association - Website: www.gorbalslive.org.uk
Queen Elizabeth Square: Site E, Gorbals,
Glasgow by CZWG
Gorbals housing : Page
\ Park Architects
RFAC Report:
Crown Street - residential development
www.royfinartcomforsco.gov.uk/oct02.htm
New Gorbals Housing Association, 187 Crown Street
Building nearby is Caledonia Road
Church
Glasgow Housing
Crown
Street Glasgow : Scottish Design Awards 2007 - Residential Shortlist
Page\Park Architects - Friary Court