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Glasgow Tower, Picture, Architecture, Scotland, Location, Phone, Photo,
UK
Glasgow Tower Images + Information
Glasgow Science Centre building

images by bdp architects
Location: southwest Glasgow
Address: Glasgow Science Centre, 50 Pacific Quay, Glasgow G511EA
Telephone: 0871 540 1000
Design: Richard Horden Architects; Building Design Partnership - BDP
Architects
Glasgow Tower: Description
Richard Horden is an English architect and yachtsman. Horden became
well-known in the Eighties for light simple buildings that used yacht
technology and yacht iconology. His modern rectilinear buildings were
part of the Hi-Tech style that swept England, key architects being
Richard Rogers, Norman Foster and Chris Wilkinson.

photograph © 2007 jason baxter
Richard Horden Architects tried to transfer the elegance of sailing
and the beauty and technology of the modern aircraft into architecture,
in a way reminiscent of architect Le Corbusier's extolling of the
modern technology of cars and planes. However, unlike Le Corbusier,
Richard Horden aimed for light prefabricated buildings.
images © adrian welch
Glasgow
Tower architects : BDP
Enterainment / Educational Buildings at Pacific Quay / Prince's Dock:
Glasgow Science Centre +
Glasgow Tower + Glasgow Imax
European Millennium Tower Competition, Glasgow:
Richard Horden Architects were awarded first prize for their Wing
Tower but controversially the project was essentially taken
over by BDP Architects, Glasgow.
images © adrian welch
The Glasgow Tower brief required a 100 metre high tower. The Tower
was to include a viewing platform, restaurant and exhibition space.
Richard Horden worked with aeronautical engineer Peter Heppel, to
design a vertical wing that rotated with the wind direction. Being
visible for miles around, it allows Glaswegians to tell which way
the wind is blowing! The Glasgow Tower was the first of its kind to
rotate to reduce the aerodynamic forces on the structure.
Glasgow
Tower architect : Richard Horden
BDP Architects - Other Projects
SEEL, Glasgow
Cardonald College, Glasgow
City
of Edinburgh HQ
images © adrian welch
Glasgow Tower - Competition
Duffy & Batt Architects' Glasgow Tower Competition entry:
image from Duffy & Batt
"a pre-millennium wheel vertical ferris wheel (paternoster) made
it to the shortlisted 12 of 350 open pan European entries".
Tallest buildings in Scotland
Office Tower and Flats Tower, Leith, by Terry Farrell & Partners
Edinburgh's Leith
Docks are set to become a mini-Manhattan, complete with Scotland's
two tallest buildings and a Guggenheim museum. Forth Ports has revealed
plans to build two 35-storey towers as part of the regeneration of
Leith port's Edinburgh Harbour. The company is also in discussions
with the Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation about building a museum at
the port. The two towers would stretch 420 feet into the air, making
them three feet taller than the Millennium Tower at Glasgow Science
Centre - currently Scotland's tallest structure. They will dwarf Scotland's
previous tallest buildings, the 31-storey flats in Bluevale Street
and Whitevale Street in Glasgow's Gallowgate, which are both 298 ft
tall.
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Glasgow walking tours
Glasgow Tower - Revolution
The revolving Glasgow Tower - which cost £10m and is Scotland's tallest
free-standing structure - could soon be reopened with the huge ball bearing
due to be fitted this week. The Glasgow Science Centre tower at has been
in operation for less than 100 days since opening in late 2001.
Aug03
Glasgow Tower - Repair
Repairs to the Glasgow Tower delayed for months by a row over faults,
keeping it closed since Feb 2002.
Sep 02
Richard Horden is not only a key English architect but internationally
known
Scottish
Architecture: best scottish buildings of the last three decades
Scottish
Architects from Scotland through the ages
Historic Glasgow: best glasgow buildings
of the past
Glasgow Tower - Website: www.glasgowsciencecentre.org
To the west of the site is Pacific Quay
Across the River Clyde is the Glasgow
Moat House Hotel
Glasgow tower : Dalmarnock
Glasgow tower blocks
Glasgow Tower is the only building in the world capable of turning 360 degrees
from the ground up. The aerodynamic structure allows the entire building
to turn and face the wind, thus reducing wind resistance.There is a two
and a half minute ride to the top but it has been plagued with problems
so call before you visit.
Glasgow Transport Museum


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Glasgow Tower Building - page: adrian welch /
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