Basic Site Details

Name: Crown Street Regeneration Project
Town, district or village: Gorbals
City or county: Glasgow
Country: Scotland
Parish:  
Status:  
Grid ref:
Notes: Showcase prototype of second rebuilding of the Gorbals, largely on site of demolished Hutchesontown E development - £80m development shaped by mixed-use principle, and inspired by International Building Exhibition (IBA) in West Berlin

Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
 ClassificationOriginal classification?Notes
Item 1 of 1Housing  

Street Addresses

The following street addresses are associated with this building:
 AddressMain entrance?Notes
Item 1 of 3Ballater Gardens  
Item 2 of 3Crown Street  
Item 3 of 3Errol Gardens  

Events

The following date-based events are associated with this building:
 FromToEvent typeNotes
Item 1 of 319931995Build/constructionPhase I (Ballater Gdns & Errol Gdns), of 209 owner-occupied flats (Miller Partnership), and 61 rental flats (New Gorbals Housing Assoc)
Item 2 of 31995(?)Build/constructionPhase II, of 70 houses (Tay Homes & Hypostyle)
Item 3 of 31997(?)Build/constructionPhases III and IV, being homes by Miller Partnership, Stewart Milne Partnership, and New Gorbals Housing Assoc

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.
 NameRolePartnership GroupFromToNotes
Item 1 of 6Piers Gough  1989 Masterplan for regeneration scheme
Item 2 of 6CZWG  c. 1990 Masterplan
Item 3 of 6Tay Homes  1995 Phase II
Item 4 of 6The Miller Partnership  1995(?) 
Item 5 of 6New Gorbals Housing Association  1997 Phase I, and involved in Phases III and/or IV
Item 6 of 6Stewart Milne Partnership  1997 Phases III and/or IV

Clients

The following individuals or organisations have commissioned work on this building/design:
 NameNotes
Item 1 of 1Glasgow Development Agency 

Related Buildings, Structures and Designs

Child Structures

This structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details):
 Building NameNotes
Item 1 of 1Gatekeeper, Caledonia Road 

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this building:
 Author(s)DateTitlePartPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 3Glasgow Regeneration Alliance1995Shaping the Future   
Item 2 of 3Glendinning, Miles1997Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75  Tuckwell Press Ltdp42, 146-9
Item 3 of 3Wills, Galloway, Gough Crown St Regeneration Project Glasgow Development Agency 

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this building:
 Periodical NameDateEditionPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 12ArchitectNovember 1997  Piece on Hypostyle's involvement
Item 2 of 12Architects Journal8 July 1992  p7 - 'Gorbals revival gets go-ahead'
Item 3 of 12Crown Street NewsSeptember 19912 'New Gorbals Comes Alive!'
Item 4 of 12Daily Telegraph18 September 1990  p4 - 'Gorbals: Out with the new and in with the old'
Item 5 of 12Herald, The4 December 1996  p1 (of Scotland's Homes supplement) - 'No Mean Gorbals Revival'
Item 6 of 12Herald, The5 November 1997  p3 (of Scotland's Homes supplement) - 'Another big step forward for the Gorbals'
Item 7 of 12Herald, The2 December 1998  p6 - 'For the upwardly mobile'
Item 8 of 12ProspectJune 199969 'Growing up in the Gorbals' - substantial feature on Crown St regeneration
Item 9 of 12Scotland on Sunday20 April 1997  'Gorbals gets it right with designer home scheme'
Item 10 of 12Scotsman8 January 1992  p5 - '£80m project to regenerate Gorbals district'
Item 11 of 12The BulletinMarch 1993  p6 - 'Go-ahead heralds start of £80m Gorbals redevelopment'
Item 12 of 12The BulletinJune 1994  p10 - 'Rebuilding Gorbals', interview with Hutchesontown councillor Bailie James Mutter