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Glasgow Colleges of Building & Printing, North Hanover St, Photo, Architect

Glasgow Colleges of Building & Printing : Information

Modern Tower Building - design by Wylie Shanks Architects, Scotland



Glasgow Colleges of Building & Printing

Glasgow College of Building & Printing
photograph © Adrian Welch

Address: 60 North Hanover Street, Glasgow, G1 2BP

Phone: 0141 566 6222

Date: 1964

Design: Wylie Shanks Architects

Modern Building
glasgow college of building & printing: photo from wylie shanks architects

This slab tower has a plan with gentle angles converging down the middle of each of the longer sides facing north and south.

Wylie Shanks Architects
glasgow college of building & printing: photo © Adrian Welch

The roof pays homage to Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation building in Marseilles.

Wylie Shanks Architects
glasgow college of building & printing: photo © 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:

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central college of commerce: photo from wylie shanks architects



 




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