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glasgow college of building & printing: photo from
wylie shanks architects
This slab tower from 1964 has a plan with gentle angles converging down
the middle of each of the longer sides facing north and south.

glasgow college of building & printing: photo by
adrian welch
The roof pays homage to Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation building in
Marseilles.

glasgow college of building & printing: photo by
adrian welch
Close by is the Central College of Commerce which also features Modernist
organic forms on its roof, from 1963, also by Wylie Shanks Architects:

central college of commerce: photo from wylie shanks
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