Copenhagen Building, 67 Hope Street, Glasgow
New image - 10 Mar 2008:
Copenhagen Building Glasgow from gm+ad architects Mar 2008
image from gm+ad architects Mar 2008
10 May 2007
gm+ad architects have a new commercial development going on site this month on Hope Street. The Copenhagen Building takes its name from the associations in the area with the Duke of Wellington (His horse was named Copenhagen and Hope Street was once Copenhagen Street) and is located on the western side of Hope Street, facing the Central Station Hotel.
image from gm+ad architects May 2007
It is bounded on the south side by Atlantic Chambers, a Grade ‘A’ Listed office building dating from 1899 by JJ Burnett, and on the north by Shaftsbury House, a 1960’s office building, which itself is about to be redeveloped. It is probably one of the busiest parts of Glasgow City Centre with 24-hour activity – commuters, office workers, shoppers and people socialising at the numerous pubs and nightclubs.
image from gm+ad architects 7 Feb 2008
The building creates clear office floor pates of 7500ft2 (700m2) by amalgamating the refurbishment of a Grade ‘B’ Listed Building from 1899 by Robert Thomson, with a new structure in the gap between this and Burnett’s Atlantic Chambers. The entrance to the building is created in the removal of the old Daily Record Printing Hall, which currently occupies the space between the Listed Building. An earlier project to create a nightclub in the ground and basement levels also involved preparatory works - columns and foundations, etc. for this new building over which permits construction to continue above.
Given the almost baroque nature of the existing facades, the new insertion is a cool elegantly proportioned glass facade which steps back on the two upper floors to reveal the ornate returns of the attics level of the Listed Buildings.
image from gm+ad architects 7 Feb 2008
Copenhagen Building, Hope Street, Glasgow - Building PR: 10 May 2007
Link re Copenhagen Building: JJ Burnet architect
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Also by Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects:
Radisson SAS Hotel
Spectrum Building
Sentinel Building
Glasgow Central Station Refurbishment
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