Basic Site Details Name: | Renfrew County Council, Paisley Town Council and Police Station building | Town, district or village: | Paisley | City or county: | Renfrewshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Cost £4.75m
Phases 1, 3 and 4 Costains Construction
Phase 2 - Wight Construction Co. Falkirk | Alternative NamesThe following alternative names are associated with this building/design: | | Name | Current name? | Notes | | Paisley Civic Centre | | |
Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | County buildings | | | | Police station | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | Cotton Street | | to east of Cotton Street / south-east of Paisley Abbey | | Paisley Abbey | | to east of Cotton Street / south-east of Paisley Abbey |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | | | Build/construction | Administrative headquarters, consisting of 6-storey office block with linked annexe [Building,16/08/1968,p142] | | 23 October 1959 | | Proposed | est. cost £1m.; possibility of competition assessed by Prof. John Needham, Sheffield University per Builder p508 | | 17 February 1961 | | Proposed | Renfrew CC and Paisley TC to proceed jointly at estimated project cost of £2m.; design competition proposed per Builder p340 | | 1963 | | Competition designs submitted | Two stage competition assessed by James Mottram, John Needham and Robert Gardner Medwin. | | 1964 | | Design exhibited | Winning scheme - model exhibited | | September 1966 | March 1968 | Build/construction | First phase to commenced on site, was scheduled to be finished by March 1968 (in February 1967). The contractor of this phase is Wight Construction Ltd. of Falkirk, Stirlingshire. [Building, 10/2/1967, p90].
According to Tony Monk's article in the Magazine of the Twentieth Century Society teh first phase consisted of the Renfrew & Bute Police offices and was completed in Autumn 1969. | | September 1967 | April 1972 | Build/construction | The scheduled commencement of the second phase, the Renfrewshire county buildings, of this development [Building, 10/2/1967, p90] and completion date. | | April 1968 | | Build/construction | Erection of administrative headquarters at cost of £1.7m | | July 1968 | 1979 | Build/construction | Fourth phase - Renfrewshire & Paisley Councils - suites and chambers and completion date. | | July 1968 | December 1971 | Build/construction | The scheduled commencement of the third phase, the municipal buildings, of this development [Building, 10/2/1967, p90] and completion date. | | 1969 | | Won award or awards | Civic Trust Commendation for Phase 1 |
PeopleDesign and Construction
ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p180 | | RIBA | 1970 | RIBA Directory 1970 | | | | | Royal Academy exhibitors | | | | | 1964, no 1090 | | Walker, Frank Arneil | 1986 | South Clyde Estuary: An Illustrated Architectural Guide to Inverclyde and Renfrew | | | p8 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 23 October 1959 | | | p508 'Proposed Civic Centre for Paisley'. | | Builder | 17 February 1961 | | | p340 | | Builder | 3 January 1964 | | | p2 - details of competition results for Paisley Civic scheme | | Builder | 10 January 1964 | | | p65-70 - illustrated article detailing Hutchison's winning scheme, with plans and model | | Building | 10 February 1967 | | | p90 | | Building | 5 April 1968 | | | p176 | | Building | 19 July 1968 | | | Foundation stone of Renfrew CC £1.7m civic buildings near the abbey has been laid, p157 | | Building | 26 July 1968 | | | p90 | | Building | 26 July 1968 | | | p90 | | Building | 16 August 1968 | | | p142 | | Twentieth Century Architecture | 2014 | 1 | | Articleby Tony Monk: 'Paisley Pride' pp33-35 |
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