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Spectrum Building, Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects, Offices, Photos
Spectrum Glasgow : Information + Images
Spectrum House, 55 Blythswood St, Glasgow, Scotland
1999-2000
gm+ad Architects
Photos : Andrew Lee

Refurbishment and extension of a 1960s office block in central
Glasgow.
Nicknamed Turkey in Bacofoil (architects' favourite) and
Kit-kat the building's key feature has to be the shiny
Bright Annealed marine grade stainless steel [grade reference is 316
(1.4404)] cladding. The south front is a clean slice of glass curtain
walling, but the East end becomes more sculptural. The building bows
out and up, with random miniature windows to the north façade.
The Spectrum interior is a clean renovation and pales into insignificance
compared to the imaginative exterior: this building uses modest means
to maximum effect and some architects may think this is all foil wrapping
and no substance.
The shimmering sea of shiny silver sits atop a solid base of reflective
black granite. This solid datum and the regular division of the facade
help control the dynamic and random contortions of the cladding. The
inflections and subtle modifications are for me more appealing than
the wildness of say Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim. Above all this is an
amusing building, an uplifting beacon in a dour part of Glasgow.
Adjacent building by Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects:
Radisson Hotel Glasgow
Spectrum Building Context : Sentinel
Building by gm+ad

photo : andrew lee
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photo : Andrew Lee
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gm+ad Challenging Contextualism
Penny Lewis, Stephen Spear
£20.00 ; ISBN: 1903653150
Paperback 120pp (2003) ;Publisher: Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects
Challenging Contextualism

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