Basic Site Details

Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
	Classification	Original classification?	Notes
	Housing

Street Addresses

The following street addresses are associated with this building:
	Address	Main entrance?	Notes
	Cathedral Street		To S
	St Mungo Drive		Phase 1 of Area B

Events

The following date-based events are associated with this building:
	From	To	Event type	Notes
	14 January 1966		Destruction/demolition	500 tenement houses cleared to make way for four 25-storey blocks of 800 flats costing £3m
	1967	Early 1970s	Build/construction
	1967		Plans approved	Townhead CDA Area B (St Mungo Drive) Plans approved for 4 blocks of 25 storeys, totalling 768 units. Wimpey

People

Design and Construction

The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column.
	Name	Role	Partnership Group	From	To	Notes
	Archibald George Jury		A	(?)		Unsure whether Jury was involved. He was on earlier phase of Townhead CDA.
	George Wimpey Ltd, Scottish Division, Architects Department			1967	Early 1970s
	Glasgow City Architects Department			1967	Early 1970s
	Glasgow Corporation Direct Labour Dept		B	1967		Phase 1 of Area B

References

Bibliographic References

The 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	p77 Perspective of proposed decked layout of CDA - unexecuted*
	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	p82, p246 p368, Gazetteer 1 p381, Gazetteer 2
	Williamson, Riches, Higgs	1990	Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland)			p154

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this building:
	Periodical Name	Date	Edition	Publisher	Notes
	Builder	14 January 1966			p.92A