Glasgow Tower Images + Information

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.