| Spectrum Building, Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects, Offices, Photos Spectrum House, 55 Blythswood St, Glasgow, Scotland glasgow architecture |
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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. Armadillo Glasgow SECC Glasgow Fort Shopping Centre Museum of Country Life Scottish Architecture gm+ad architects Book Review Rennie Mackintosh Scottish Architects of the past Glasgow News : back to index gm+ad Challenging Contextualism Penny Lewis, Stephen Spear £20.00 Paperback 120pp (2003) Publisher: Gordon Murray & Alan Dunlop Architects ISBN: 1903653150 Challenging Contextualism Adjacent building by Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects: Radisson Hotel Glasgow Spectrum Building Context : Sentinel Building by gm+ad Comments / photos for the Spectrum Building Architecture page welcome: info@glasgowarchitecture.co.uk Spectrum Glasgow Building - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt |
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