Glasgow Royal Concert Hall Leslie Martin architecture, RSNO photo, Architect, Scotland music venue building picture, UK
Royal Concert Hall Glasgow
The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall building design by Sir Leslie Martin with RMJM Architects at 2 Sauchiehall Street, Scotland, UK.
post updated 15 February 2025
Commonwealth Games Cultural Venues
The Culture and External Affairs Minister has announced funding to redevelop two of Glasgow’s leading venues in time for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Address: 2 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3NY
Glasgow Royal Concert Hall building photo © Adrian Welch
Glasgow Concert Hall
Fiona Hyslop confirmed the Scottish Government has allocated more than a million pounds from its 2011/12 budget for work on the Theatre Royal and Glasgow Royal Concert Hall.
Scottish Opera will receive £605,000 to progress plans to upgrade the Theatre Royal while the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (RSNO) will receive £413,000 towards the redevelopment of its new home at the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. 28 Feb 2011
Photos from 3 Apr 2011:
building photos © Adrian Welch
Granted Royal status post-completion the Glasgow International Concert Hall replaced St Andrews Hall, Charing Cross: it burned down in 1962.
The Royal Concert Hall opened in time for Glasgow’s European City of Culture Year in 1990.
2 Sauchiehall Street building photo © Adrian Welch
Contact this Scottish city centre music venue : phone – 0141 287 5511
Location: Ticket Centre, Candleriggs
Opening times (correct at the time of writing, always check with the operator) – Mon-Sun: 9:30am-6:30pm Sun: 10am – 5pm
2 Sauchiehall Street music venue building © Adrian Welch
This venue is one of the largest halls in the United Kingdom. It was granted Royal status shortly before it was officially opened on 5 October 1990 at a gala performance attended by Anne, Princess Royal.
It was promoted and constructed in time for the city being recognised in the 1980s as the European City of Culture. The building stands at the junction of Buchanan Street, Sauchiehall Street and the former Parliamentary Road, which the building stands partially atop.
The entire complex includes the adjoining Buchanan Galleries shopping mall which was constructed in the late 1990s. The development was built over a former residential area which was demolished as part of the comprehensive development of Townhead and Cowcaddens in the 1960s.
Leslie Martin (1908 – 99) – Key Leslie Martin Buildings:
1960-1962: Harvey Court, Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge
1963-1964: William Stone Building, Peterhouse College, Cambridge
1978-1984: Faculty of Music, West Rd, Cambridge
Key building adjacent to the 2 Sauchiehall Street music venue:
Buchanan Galleries
Buchanan Galleries
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SECC building photograph : Richard Davies
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photo © Isabelle Lomholt
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Another Scottish music venue building design featured on this architectural website:
Perth Concert Hall, Perthshire, central Scotland
Perth Concert Hall
The name of Leslie Martin lives on in the Martin Centre for Architectural Studies, Cambridge
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