Hutchie Housing, Gorbals Buildings photos, South Glasgow Residential Development, Scottish Homes Architect
Hutchie Housing Gorbals
South Glasgow Residential Building: City Homes design by Page / Park Architects
29 Oct 2010
Design: PagePark Architects
Date built: 2010
Hutchie Housing in the Gorbals
Photos by Keith Hunter
Hutchie Housing Gorbals, Glasgow
Hutchie Phase 1 Housing, Gorbals, Glasgow – PagePark Architects
Hutchie Housing Gorbals images / information from Keith Hunter
Hutchesontown Housing in the Gorbals
Hutchesontown C was the name given to a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Its centrepiece were two 20-storey slab blocks at 16-32 Queen Elizabeth Square, designed by Sir Basil Spence and containing 400 homes.
Acclaimed by architects and modernists, the flats became riddled with damp and infestations, which could not be cured even with a major renovation in the late 1980s. They were demolished in 1993, killing a spectator in the process. Hutchesontown C was commissioned in 1959, with Spence receiving assistance from a project architect, Charles Robertson. Spence and Robertson, partly inspired by Le Corbusier’s giant maisonette blocks in Marseille, designed two “colossal, rugged 20-storey slabs” featuring inset communal balconies.
In revealing the design, Spence said to the Glasgow Corporation’s Housing Committee that “on Tuesdays, when all the washing’s out, it’ll be like a great ship in full sail”, a reference to Glasgow’s shipbuilding heritage. He hoped to revive working-class life of the tenement back green. His remarks helped break down resistance to tall blocks among the councillors.
source: wikipedia
Glasgow Council housing : Houses in Multiple Occupancy
Gorbals Housing
photo : Keith Hunter
Page & Park Architects’ Gorbals Housing project
Glasgow Housing
Contemporary Glasgow Property Designs – recent Strathclyde architectural selection below:
Ingram Street Property Development
image courtesy of Artisan Real Estate
65-97 Ingram Street Glasgow
The Foundry Cathcart housing development
image courtesy of Cala Homes (West)
The Foundry Cathcart housing development
Golfhill School Flats
image courtesy of Spectrum Properties
Golfhill Public School Dennistoun Flats
Cart Street housing
photo © Keith Hunter
Lancefield Quay Flats
photo © Adrian Welch
Ingram Square Flats
photo © Adrian Welch
Crown Street Housing Gorbals
picture from architect
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