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 architects




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