Dixon Street Tower, Images, Architect, Location, PagePark Scottish Building Design, Conservation Area Consent
Dixon Street, Glasgow : Building
Tower in Glasgow design by Page + Park Architects, Strathclyde, west of Scotland
Dixon Tower – Aug 2005 Update
New rendering of PagePark Architects’ Dixon Tower: the scheme received planning permission but PagePark Architects await Conservation Area Consent.
For the Dixon Street Partnership
Design: PagePark Architects
Dixon Street Glasgow
The scheme was granted Planning Permission on 12th July 2005. Normally a decision on Conservation Area Consent follows after 28 days but Historic Scotland have asked for an extension to their period of consideration.
image by Page & Park Architects: View from Buchanan Street towards the Clyde
Page + Park Architects, Glasgow, submitted a 46-unit tower for planning approval in Sep 2004.
The developer for the Tower has formed the Dixon Street Partnership specifically for this development. The new building is located on the corner of Dixon Street and 308 Clyde Street and on axis with Buchanan Street.
The Dixon Street Tower is 15 storeys to the North but steps down to 8 storeys towards the River Clyde. The tower has a semi-amorphic facade with undulations and indents. Bizarrely it has been christened the ‘McGherkin’ by some (according to the Press) despite having none of the ‘purity’ of Foster & Partners‘ Swiss Re skyscraper in London – nicknamed the ‘Erotic Gherkin’.
The RFACS is reviewing the project. Close by is the proposed Unicorn Tower on Clyde street by gm+ad architects:
This – Alan Dunlop states – follows on from the 13 storey icon building by other Glasgow architects, Elder and Cannon, for Glasgow developer Strathallan (based in Giffnock)
Location: north side of the River Clyde, central Glasgow, Strathclyde, southwest Scotland, UK
Central Station Glasgow is located close by
The Dixon Street Partnership is working with Page / Park Architects on a housing scheme at St Andrew’s in the Square, Glasgow
Other Glasgow Tall buildings proposed include the tallest building in Scotland by the Elphinstone Group
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Comments / photos for the Dixon Street Tower Architecture design by Page Park Architects in Strathclyde, southwest Scotland, United Kingdom, page welcome.
