Basic Site Details Name: | Hutchesontown / Gorbals Redevelopment | Town, district or village: | Hutchesontown / Gorbals | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | Prototype and showpiece for city's post-war Modernist phase of reconstruction | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Street plan | | |
Street AddressesThe following street addresses are associated with this building: | | Address | Main entrance? | Notes | | Ballater Street | | | | Cumberland Street | | | | Lawmoor Street | | | | Rutherglen Road | | | | Waddell Street | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 20 September 1957 | | Proposed | 'Glasgow Corporation seeks powers for compulsory purchase of 1,146 houses, 104 shops, nine public-houses and a number of industrial plants as part of the Hutcheson-Gorbals redevelopment plan. This will cost between ₤17 and ₤18 million' per Builder p522 | | 13 March 1964 * | | Proposed | Construction of pedestrian underpass to link housing schemes, to be built by McKean & Co (Glasgow) Ltd at cost of £26,581 |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
Related Buildings, Structures and DesignsChild StructuresThis structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details): | | Building Name | Notes | | Hutchesontown / Gorbals Area A Housing | | | Hutchesontown / Gorbals Area B multi-storey flats and housing | Built on 9-acre site north of Ballater Street at cost of £1.5m, comprising 428 dwellings in four 17-storey towers and several lower blocks, plus garages, public house, and shop.
Laid out at angle to existing street grid, thus articulating rejection of old C19 city (and, more practically, allowing N-S alignment for maximum sunlight). At Paterson's suggestion, the towers had floodlights mounted on top (a first in Scotland), in an effort to encourage night-time social life. | | Hutchesontown / Gorbals Area C Housing Redevelopment | 400 units by Spence. Queen Elizabeth Square is the centre of this development. It includes, besides the housing, shopping mall, stubby office blocks, and block of shops. Demolished 1993 | | Hutchesontown / Gorbals Area D | |
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 | xi, xii, p20, 22, 26, 39, 42, 92-4, 98-102, 144-50, 153, 175, 185 | | Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan | 1994 | Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland | | Yale University Press: New Haven and London | p169, p222, p310 p381, Gazetteer 2 | | Williamson, Riches, Higgs | 1990 | Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p518-519 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | American Architect & Building News | 27 May 1959 | | | p678-9 | | Architect and Building News | 10 September 1958 | | | p350-1 | | Architect and Building News | 27 May 1959 | | | | | Architect and Building News | 6 May 1964 | | | | | Architect and Building News | 15 January 1970 | | | | | Architect and Building News | 15 January 1970 | | | p26-9 | | Architects Journal | 18 April 1957 | | | pp570-571 | | Architects Journal | 18 April 1957 | | | p570-3 | | Architects Journal | 4 September 1958 | | | p326 | | Architects Journal | 15 April 1964 | | | p857-72 | | Architectural Review | January 1959 | | | | | Architectural Review | January 1959 | | | p9-11 | | Architectural Review | November 1967 | | | p348-9 | | Builder | 9 April 1954 | | | p627 | | Builder | 20 September 1957 | | | 'Hutcheson-Gorbals Redevelopment', p522 | | Builder | 5 September 1958 | | | p282-3 | | Builder | 7 July 1961 | | | p32 | | Builder | 13 March 1964 | | | p583 | | Building Industries | November 1962 | | | Building Industries & Scottish Architect p40-6 | | Concrete and Constructional Engineering | November 1963 | | | pp449-456 - 'Multiple-storey Residential Buildings in Glasgow' | | Housing Review | 11 December 1958 | | | p184-5 | | Municipal Journal | 23 April 1954 | | | p899-902 | | Municipal Journal | 15 March 1957 | | | p588-9 | | New Yorker | 24 October 1959 | | | 'Metamorphosis in the Gorbals' (Stephen Watts) | | Official Architecture and Planning | May 1954 | | | p225-7 | | Official Architecture and Planning | June 1956 | | | p277-80 | | Official Architecture and Planning | October 1958 | | | p469-72 | | Scotland on Sunday | 21 February 1999 | | | pp22-25 - 'The boys are back in town' (report on Gorbals photographs in 'visual hisotry of the nation') | | Surveyor | 2 March 1957 | | | p197-8 | | Surveyor | 6 September 1958 | | | p890 | | Surveyor | 26 March 1960 | | | p301 | | Surveyor | 13 May 1961 | | | p615-16 |
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