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The futuristic looking Hilton Hotel near the Anderston Centre in Glasgow framed by the slip roads of the M8 😄📷 #hilton #hiltonhotel #skyscraper #glasgow #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowcity #glasgowcitycentre #hotel
This building is next to the Barras market in Glasgow. William White & Son's Clay Pipe Factory, Gallowgate:
Built 1876-79
Hutchesons' Hall
Hutchesons' Hall is an early nineteenth-century building in Ingram Street, in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned and maintained by the Rusk Company and National Trust for Scotland, and is a category A listed building.
The current building was constructed, as Hutchesons' Hospital, between 1802 and 1805 to a design by the Scottish architect David Hamilton. This building was to replace an earlier hospital of 1641, situated in the city's Trongate. Hamilton's design incorporates in its frontage statues (carved in 1649 by James Colquhoun) from this earlier hospital.09
Hutcheson's Hospital was built with monies left in the will of brothers George and Thomas Hutcheson (1589-1641) for the purposes of building a hospital for the elderly and a school for poor boys. The school is still operating today, although fee-paying, as Hutchesons' Grammar School.
In 1876, the architect John Baird was commissioned to refurbish the hall. This work heightened the structure and added a feature staircase.
The building fell into disrepair and had been empty since 2008. In June 2014, having undergone a £1.4M refurbishment, it was restored by James Rusk of The Rusk Company and opened as a three flooring dining venue - Hutchesons steak and seafood house.
The People's Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland is a museum and glasshouse situated in Glasgow Green, and was opened on 22 January 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery.
Early history
At the time, the East End of Glasgow was one of the most unhealthy and overcrowded parts of the city, and the People's Palace was intended to provide a cultural centre for the people. It was designed by the City Engineer, Alexander B. McDonald. At the opening ceremony Lord Rosebery stated: "A palace of pleasure and imagination around which the people may place their affections and which may give them a home on which their memory may rest". He declared the building "Open to the people for ever and ever".
Features
Originally, the ground floor of the building provided reading and recreation rooms, with a museum on the first floor, and a picture gallery on the top floor. Since the 1940s, it has been the museum of social history for the city of Glasgow, and tells the story of the people and the city from 1750 to the present day. The collections and displays reflect the changing face of the city and the different experiences of Glaswegians at home, work and leisure.
Current displays (as of March 2009) include glimpses of typical Glasgow history such as life in a "single end" (a one-room tenement home), going to "The Steamie" (the communal laundry), nights out at "The Dancing" in the famous Barrowland Ballroom and trips "Doon The Watter" (down the Firth of Clyde) on steamers such as the Waverley. The palace is also home to renowned Scottish Socialist John MacLean's campaign desk, which can be found on the first floor.
Closing
The building was closed for almost two years, to allow restoration work to be carried out, with the re-opening being timed to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of its first opening in 1898; this is recorded on a plaque mounted just inside the main entrance. Renovations extended to include the Winter Gardens to the rear of the building, where the glasshouse was extensively restored and reglazed, and the gardens tidied.
Restoration
As part of the restoration the artist Ken Currie was commissioned to create a series of paintings for the ceiling dome of the museum. The eight panels mark the 200th anniversary of the Calton weavers Massacre of 1787 and depict the history of Glasgow's workers from that point to the present day.
In 2005 further work was carried out when the Doulton Fountain was extensively refurbished and relocated to its present position in front of the museum.
At 46 feet high and 70 feet across at its base, it is the largest terracotta fountain in the world. It was originally gifted to the city in 1888 after the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry by Sir Henry Doulton to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and is decorated with a figure of the Queen and groups from Canada, Australia, India and South Africa representing Britain's Empire.
During the 1980s, a feline rodent operative gained local fame when she became a member of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union, after NALGO refused her admission as a blue collar worker.[2]
This was Smudge, the People's Palace cat, who ensured the building did not become home to small, unwelcome visitors. Glasgow's Lord Provost made press appeals and police searches were carried out when she disappeared for 3 weeks in 1987, eventually re-appearing none the worse for wear less than half a mile away.
The Trongate Town Hall, or Tontine Building, is situated on the Trongate, across the road from the Tron Theatre. Much of the building that can be seen today, was completed in 1781
The Govanhill area has always been a little edgy. Lived here over 30 years ago and generally the condition of the area has seen no investment.
The People's Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland is a museum and glasshouse situated in Glasgow Green, and was opened on 22 January 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery.
Early history
At the time, the East End of Glasgow was one of the most unhealthy and overcrowded parts of the city, and the People's Palace was intended to provide a cultural centre for the people. It was designed by the City Engineer, Alexander B. McDonald. At the opening ceremony Lord Rosebery stated: "A palace of pleasure and imagination around which the people may place their affections and which may give them a home on which their memory may rest". He declared the building "Open to the people for ever and ever".
Features
Originally, the ground floor of the building provided reading and recreation rooms, with a museum on the first floor, and a picture gallery on the top floor. Since the 1940s, it has been the museum of social history for the city of Glasgow, and tells the story of the people and the city from 1750 to the present day. The collections and displays reflect the changing face of the city and the different experiences of Glaswegians at home, work and leisure.
Current displays (as of March 2009) include glimpses of typical Glasgow history such as life in a "single end" (a one-room tenement home), going to "The Steamie" (the communal laundry), nights out at "The Dancing" in the famous Barrowland Ballroom and trips "Doon The Watter" (down the Firth of Clyde) on steamers such as the Waverley. The palace is also home to renowned Scottish Socialist John MacLean's campaign desk, which can be found on the first floor.
Closing
The building was closed for almost two years, to allow restoration work to be carried out, with the re-opening being timed to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of its first opening in 1898; this is recorded on a plaque mounted just inside the main entrance. Renovations extended to include the Winter Gardens to the rear of the building, where the glasshouse was extensively restored and reglazed, and the gardens tidied.
Restoration
As part of the restoration the artist Ken Currie was commissioned to create a series of paintings for the ceiling dome of the museum. The eight panels mark the 200th anniversary of the Calton weavers Massacre of 1787 and depict the history of Glasgow's workers from that point to the present day.
In 2005 further work was carried out when the Doulton Fountain was extensively refurbished and relocated to its present position in front of the museum.
At 46 feet high and 70 feet across at its base, it is the largest terracotta fountain in the world. It was originally gifted to the city in 1888 after the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry by Sir Henry Doulton to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and is decorated with a figure of the Queen and groups from Canada, Australia, India and South Africa representing Britain's Empire.
During the 1980s, a feline rodent operative gained local fame when she became a member of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union, after NALGO refused her admission as a blue collar worker.
This was Smudge, the People's Palace cat, who ensured the building did not become home to small, unwelcome visitors. Glasgow's Lord Provost made press appeals and police searches were carried out when she disappeared for 3 weeks in 1987, eventually re-appearing none the worse for wear less than half a mile away.
The People's Palace and Winter Gardens in Glasgow, Scotland is a museum and glasshouse situated in Glasgow Green, and was opened on 22 January 1898 by the Earl of Rosebery.
Early history
At the time, the East End of Glasgow was one of the most unhealthy and overcrowded parts of the city, and the People's Palace was intended to provide a cultural centre for the people. It was designed by the City Engineer, Alexander B. McDonald. At the opening ceremony Lord Rosebery stated: "A palace of pleasure and imagination around which the people may place their affections and which may give them a home on which their memory may rest". He declared the building "Open to the people for ever and ever".
Features
Originally, the ground floor of the building provided reading and recreation rooms, with a museum on the first floor, and a picture gallery on the top floor. Since the 1940s, it has been the museum of social history for the city of Glasgow, and tells the story of the people and the city from 1750 to the present day. The collections and displays reflect the changing face of the city and the different experiences of Glaswegians at home, work and leisure.
Current displays (as of March 2009) include glimpses of typical Glasgow history such as life in a "single end" (a one-room tenement home), going to "The Steamie" (the communal laundry), nights out at "The Dancing" in the famous Barrowland Ballroom and trips "Doon The Watter" (down the Firth of Clyde) on steamers such as the Waverley. The palace is also home to renowned Scottish Socialist John MacLean's campaign desk, which can be found on the first floor.
Closing
The building was closed for almost two years, to allow restoration work to be carried out, with the re-opening being timed to coincide with the 100-year anniversary of its first opening in 1898; this is recorded on a plaque mounted just inside the main entrance. Renovations extended to include the Winter Gardens to the rear of the building, where the glasshouse was extensively restored and reglazed, and the gardens tidied.
Restoration
As part of the restoration the artist Ken Currie was commissioned to create a series of paintings for the ceiling dome of the museum. The eight panels mark the 200th anniversary of the Calton weavers Massacre of 1787 and depict the history of Glasgow's workers from that point to the present day.
In 2005 further work was carried out when the Doulton Fountain was extensively refurbished and relocated to its present position in front of the museum.
At 46 feet high and 70 feet across at its base, it is the largest terracotta fountain in the world. It was originally gifted to the city in 1888 after the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry by Sir Henry Doulton to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, and is decorated with a figure of the Queen and groups from Canada, Australia, India and South Africa representing Britain's Empire.
During the 1980s, a feline rodent operative gained local fame when she became a member of the General, Municipal, Boilermakers and Allied Trade Union, after NALGO refused her admission as a blue collar worker.[2]
This was Smudge, the People's Palace cat, who ensured the building did not become home to small, unwelcome visitors. Glasgow's Lord Provost made press appeals and police searches were carried out when she disappeared for 3 weeks in 1987, eventually re-appearing none the worse for wear less than half a mile away.
On the way to see Zaha Hadid's new Transport Museum which is still getting built. I'm really looking forward to see finished.
The city reflected in the river Clyde at the weekend. St Andrew's Cathedral tucked in beside some new buildings
St Andrews in the Square, Glasgow framed by the Saltmarket railway bridge. #standrewsinthesquare #saltmarket #glasgowmerchantcity #glasgowchurches #glasgowcity #glasgowcitycentre #glasgowarchitecture #church #photography
One of the best pubs in Glasgow, I've enjoyed many beers over the years ,I took a few photos on my last visit to Glasgow , the mural has an interesting story , as does the history of the bar itself, well worth a visit if you are ever in the City.
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Art Pistol - a platform designed to help up-and-coming artists - has taken charge of the project, with Bob McNamara (a.k.a Rogue One) and Danny McDermott, known as EJEK are among the artists working on the mural.
McDermott and McNamara will eventually cover both sides of the pub with paintings of famous faces who drank in the bar or performed there in the past. Bar owner Alan Crossan is re-opening the bar in stages, following the devastating helicopter crash on 29 November 2013, in which ten people lost their lives. The mural will be covered up before the bar is reopened later this month. Ali Smith of Art Pistol told the Evening Times: “We are honoured to be working on this and we really hope people enjoy seeing all the faces. We’d have liked to have had even more characters but there’s only so much space. “We can’t wait to unveil it - this is just a sneak peek of what’s to come.” Mural left to right: Spike Milligan, Billy Connolly, Gerry Rafferty, Alex Harvey, Frank Zappa, Jimmy Reid, John Martyn, Glenda Jackson, Rupert Everett.
On 29 November 2013, a police helicopter crashed into the Clutha Vaults, a pub on the north bank of the River Clyde in central Glasgow.
The aircraft was operated by Bond Air Services for Police Scotland and was being crewed by a civilian pilot and two police officers. The cause of the crash was a double engine flame-out due to pilot error.
Accident summary
Date29 November 2013, 22:22 GMT
SummaryDouble engine flame-out, pilot error
SiteThe Clutha Vaults, 169 Stockwell Street, Glasgow, Scotland
55°51′16″N 4°15′0″W
Crew3
Fatalities10 (3 crew; 7 on ground)
Injuries (non-fatal)31, of which 11 were serious (all on the ground)
Aircraft typeEurocopter EC135-T2+
OperatorBond Air Services for Police Scotland
RegistrationG-SPAO
Flight originGlasgow City Heliport
Ten people died as a result of the accident: all three who were on board the helicopter and six on the ground, and another person died two weeks later from injuries received in the pub.
The Clutha Vaults remained closed until July 2015.
The helicopter took off from its base at Glasgow City Heliport (which at the time operated from Stobcross Quay adjacent to the SECC) at 20:45 on 29 November 2013..
The pilot was 51-year-old David Traill; Traill had flown Chinook helicopters in the RAF for 20 years, latterly as an instructor.
He had worked for the police for four years, and had 646 hours of flight experience on the EC135.
The helicopter carried two police observers, PCs Kirsty Nelis and Tony Collins. On takeoff it carried 400 kg of fuel.
The flight, callsign SP99, was initially involved in the search for a suspected trespasser on railway lines around Eglinton Toll.
It was then tasked to Dalkeith in Midlothian, around 44 miles (71 km) east of its base, before returning to the Glasgow area.
A few minutes before the crash, the pilot had received air traffic control clearance to return to Glasgow City Heliport.
At 22:22, approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) east of its home base, the helicopter came down on the flat roof of the Clutha Vaults bar in Stockwell Street. (Clutha is Latin for the River Clyde, which is adjacent to the pub). No distress call was made.
A ska band, Esperanza, was playing in the pub at the time of the crash and there were reported to be around 120 people in the building, some of whom were trapped by the collapsing roof.
Thirty-two people were injured, eleven of them seriously.
One witness, Gordon Smart, editor of the Scottish Sun, stated that he did not see a fireball or hear an explosion, and that the engine seemed to be misfiring.
Emergency response
The building is a former tenement which used to have multiple storeys, but after a fire in the 1960s the upper storeys were removed. The walls were therefore much thicker than would be expected for a building of this height, and the complex construction of the roof complicated the search and rescue operation.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service deployed 125 firefighters to the scene rescuing people trapped in the building for hours after the incident.
Urban search and rescue firefighters were also in attendance to shore up unstable parts of the building and to excavate collapsed areas. People rescued from the scene were initially taken by the emergency services to a nearby Holiday Inn hotel.
Labour Party MP Jim Murphy was interviewed as he was passing soon after the crash.
32 people were taken for treatment to local hospitals including Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Glasgow Victoria Infirmary, a dozen with injuries classed as serious.
An emergency phone number was set up for anyone concerned about family and relatives who may have been in and around the pub, and Glasgow City Council established a family reception centre to "provide advice and counselling to relatives of people who have been injured or people whose relatives are unaccounted for".
One of the seriously injured victims died from his injuries on 12 December.
Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond tweeted confirmation that the helicopter was a police aircraft. He subsequently described the crash as "a black day for Glasgow and for Scotland".
Glasgow MSP and Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont, Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, British Prime Minister David Cameron, Opposition leader Ed Miliband, the Queen, and Pope Francis all publicly expressed their condolences.
On the day following the crash, planned St. Andrew's Day celebrations in Glasgow's George Square were cancelled, and flags were flown at half-mast on Scottish Government buildings. Scottish football clubs held a pre-match minute's silence.
Special services were held at Glasgow's St Andrew's Cathedral and Glasgow Cathedral.
The Prince of Wales visited the crash site on 6 December and met emergency service personnel.
Police investigated offensive, racist or sectarian comments made about the crash on social media.
A weekend of fundraising events for the families of the victims and the emergency services was held on 3–5 January 2014.
Investigation
The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB), which is responsible for investigating aircraft crashes in the United Kingdom, launched an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Its staff were on-site from 09:15 the next morning.
Assistance in the investigation was provided by the German Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation and the French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile aviation incident investigation bodies (the manufacturers of the helicopter and its engine are based in Germany and France).
The American National Transportation Safety Board (representing the state of the manufacturer of the engines' FADEC controls), also provided assistance.
The wreckage of the helicopter arrived at the AAIB's headquarters at Farnborough, Hampshire on 3 December.[36] The aircraft was not fitted with flight data recorders but the electronics fitted to the aircraft could contain data helpful in determining the cause of the accident.
Police appealed for copies of any footage of the scene before or after the incident.
Preliminary findings
The AAIB issued a preliminary report of its findings on 9 December.
It confirmed that the rotor blades were attached, but neither they nor the fenestron tail rotor were rotating at the time of impact.
No evidence of engine or gearbox failure was found and there were around 95 litres (21 imp gal; 25 US gal) of fuel still on board.
The aircraft struck the building with "a high rate of descent and low/negligible forward speed"[10] and no part of it detached in flight. It came to rest approximately upright.
On 14 February 2014, the AAIB issued a Special Bulletin on the accident. It stated that the cause of the accident was that both engines had flamed out, but the reasons that they had done so had not yet been determined.
The report stated that one of the two tanks supplying the engines was empty and the other contained 0.4 kilograms (0.88 lb) of fuel. A third tank, known as the main tank, was reported to contain 75 kilograms (165 lb) of fuel but the transfer pumps supplying this fuel to the two engine fuel tanks were found with their switches in the "off" position.
Final report
The final report into the accident was published on 23 October 2015.
It found the main cause of the accident to be mismanagement of the fuel system by the pilot. This resulted in the engines flaming out due to a lack of fuel despite there being 73 kilograms (161 lb) of usable fuel remaining in the main tanks.
A failure to follow emergency checklists and land within ten minutes of the first warning of low fuel was a major contributory factor. Seven safety recommendations were made.
Legal proceedings
Civil proceedings against Bond Aviation Group were begun by victims' lawyers Irwin Mitchell in January 2014, when they sent a letter of claim to the company's legal representatives.
Irwin Mitchell partner Elaine Russell alleged the company had "strict liability... for material loss or damage... to any person or property on land or water", under Section 76 (2) of the Civil Aviation Act 1982.
Detail, Clarice Pears building, Glasgow University, Hillhead, Glasgow #claricepearsbuilding #glasgow #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #buildingdetails #modernarchitecture #hillhead #glasgowwestend #westendglasgow #glasgowcity
Late afternoon in the South of Glasgow. The walk from the city centre to this spot (down the A770 offers a great range of urban landscape
a shot from a set taken in Glasgow last year. The Glasgow Film Theatre an art deco building dating from the late 1930's
Glasgow Harbour, River Clyde, Glasgow #glasgowharbour #riverclyde #clyderiver #bluesky #homes #residential #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #sharpangles #angles #blue #glasgowcity
Hunter Street in Glasgow and the buildings are certainly a throwback a few decades. Just had to wait for someone to come into shot.
hyndland after school club, 'afty'
revisited - abbozzo project completed in 2007
featured on design republic
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Winter light, Partick sewage pumping station, Partick, Glasgow #glasgow #winterlight #partick #glasgowwestend #westendglasgow #sewagetreatmentplant #sewagepumpingstation #glasgowarchitecture #archedwindows #glasgowphotographer #glasgowphotography #ironrailing #ironrailings #greenfence
Govan Old Parish Church, Glasgow #govan #govanoldchurch #church #glasgowchurches #glasgow #glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture
Merchant Square
Dating back to the 1800s, Merchant Square is housed in part of Glasgow’s Old Fruitmarket in the heart of the historic Merchant City.
Once a merchant’s market, the indoor venue is now a stylish and sophisticated destination for eating, drinking and entertainment.
Merchant City is one of Glasgow’s most vibrant areas with Merchant Square at the very heart of it; brimming with art, culture, fashion and great food and drink, the beautiful indoor court yard is the perfect place to spend an afternoon soaking up the atmosphere while enjoying a spot of people watching.
With a host of eclectic independent bars, restaurants, galleries and quirky little shops to explore, a visit to Merchant City is a must for anyone visiting Glasgow.
To the east is the commercial and residential district of Merchant City.
The Merchant City was formerly the residential district of the wealthy city merchants in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly the Tobacco Lords from whom many of the streets take their name.
As the Industrial Revolution and the wealth it brought to the city resulted in the expansion of Glasgow's central area westward, the original medieval centre was left behind. Glasgow Cross, situated at the junction of High Street, Gallowgate, Trongate and Saltmarket was the original centre of the city, symbolised by its Mercat cross.
Glasgow Cross encompasses the Tolbooth Clock Tower; all that remains of the original City Chambers, which was destroyed by fire in 1926. Moving northward up High Street towards Rottenrow and Townhead lies the 15th century Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship. Due to growing industrial pollution levels in the mid to late 19th century, the area fell out of favour with residents.
From the late 1980s onwards, the Merchant City has been rejuvenated with luxury city centre apartments and warehouse conversions.
This regeneration has supported an increasing number of cafés and restaurants.The area is also home to a number of high end boutique style shops and some of Glasgow's most upmarket .
The Merchant City is the centre of Glasgow's growing 'cultural quarter', based on King Street, the Saltmarket and Trongate, and at the heart of the annual Merchant City Festival.
The area has supported a huge growth in art galleries, the origins of which can be found in the late 80s when it attracted artist-led organisations that could afford the cheap rents required to operate in vacant manufacturing or retail spaces.
The artistic and cultural potential of the Merchant City as a 'cultural quarter' was harnessed by independent arts organisations and Glasgow City Council, and the recent development of Trongate 103, which houses galleries, workshops, artist studios and production spaces, is considered a major outcome of the continued partnership between both.
The area also contains a number of theatres and concert venues, including the Tron Theatre, the Old Fruitmarket, the Trades Hall, St Andrew's in the Square, Merchant Square, and the City Halls.
A large part of Glasgow's LGBT scene is located within the Merchant City. This includes many clubs, and the UK gay chain store Clone Zone, along with a couple of saunas.
Recently the city council defined (and perhaps expanded) the area known as Merchant City as far west as Buchanan Street, marking these boundaries with new, highly stylised metal signage.
The Beresford Building, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow. I can never resist a quick picture of this stunning building, especially on a dazzling day like today.😀#glasgowarchitecture #scottisharchitecture #beresfordbuilding #beresfordhotel #williamberesfordinglis #artdeco #artdecostyle #artdecobuilding #glasgow #sauchiehallstreet #glasgowcity #glasgowcitycentre
Glasgow Science Centre is a visitor attraction located in the Clyde Waterfront Regeneration area on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Queen Elizabeth II opened Glasgow Science Centre on 5 June 2001. It is one of Scotland's most popular paid-for visitor attractions.
It is a purpose-built science centre composed of three principal buildings: Science Mall, Glasgow Tower and an IMAX cinema. The Scottish tourist board, VisitScotland, awarded Glasgow Science Centre a five star rating in the visitor attraction category.
As well as its main location, Glasgow Science Centre also manages the visitor centre at Whitelee Wind Farm, which opened to the public in 2009
Science Mall
The largest of the three main, titanium-clad buildings takes a crescent shape structure and houses a Science Mall. In architectural terms it represents the canted hull of a ship, a reference to the adjacent 'canting basin', where vessels were brought to have the marine growth removed from their hulls. Internally, there are three floors of over 250 science-learning exhibits.
As is usual for science centres, the exhibits aim to encourage interaction, and can be used or played with as part of the informal learning experience the centre aims to deliver. The building was designed by BDP.
On Floor 1, amongst the many interactive exhibits that demonstrate scientific principles, visitors can access a Science Show Theatre and the Glasgow Science Centre Planetarium.
The planetarium contains a Zeiss optical-mechanical projector that projects images of the night sky onto a 15m diameter dome. There is an area specifically aimed at young children called, The Big Explorer.
On Floor 2, visitors can explore opportunities in STEM careers in the My World of Work Live interactive exhibition space. There is also The Lab, primarily used as an educational workshop space.
Floor 3 was refurbished in 2012 and reopened to the public on 28 March 2013. It now houses an interactive exhibition about human health and wellbeing in the 21st century called, BodyWorks. Visitors are invited to consider their bodies, health and lifestyle from a new perspective through 115 interactive exhibits, research capsules and live laboratory experiences.
The Ground Floor of the Science Mall contains the Ticket desk, Cafes, Gift Shop, and a cloakroom. There are a number of flexible room spaces on the Ground Floor that are used for a variety of educational and corporate purposes: an education space called, The Egg; a lecture-theatre space called, The Auditorium; and The Clyde Suite. Access to Glasgow Tower for the public is also via the Ground Floor.
Glasgow Tower
The Glasgow Tower was designed to be the tallest freely-rotating tower in the world. It missed its opening date in 2001 and has been plagued by problems ever since. It has been closed for over 80% of its life, and was closed from August 2010 until July 2014.
IMAX Cinema
The IMAX cinema was the first IMAX cinema to be built in Scotland. The single auditorium seats 370 in front of a rectangular screen measuring 80 feet (24 m) by 60 feet (18 m) and has the capability to show 3D films as well as standard 2D films in IMAX format.[10] It opened to the public in October 2000 Premiered Their first Film Entitled "Dolphins", several months prior to the opening of the two other buildings.
On 6 September 2013, Cineworld agreed a 10-year lease to operate the IMAX cinema and opened a Starbucks on site.
History
View of the Glasgow Garden Festival site
Opened to the public in June 2001, Glasgow Science Centre is part of the ongoing redevelopment of Pacific Quay, an area which was once a cargo port known as Prince's Dock.
The redevelopment started with the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. As with the other National Garden Festivals, the 100 acres (0.40 km2) Glasgow site was intended to be sold off for housing development, but due to a housing slump in 1987, the developers were unable to develop the land as they intended, and the majority of the site remained derelict for years. Parts were finally redeveloped for the Science Centre and also Pacific Quay, including new headquarters for BBC Scotland and Scottish Television, opened in 2007. The Clydesdale Bank Tower was dismantled and re-erected in Rhyl in North Wales, however its spiritual successor came in the form of the Glasgow Tower as part of Science Centre complex, which stands on approximately the same spot.
The architects of the Glasgow Science Centre were Building Design Partnership, however the Glasgow Tower was originally designed by the architect Richard Horden with engineering design by Buro Happold.[14][15] It was built at a cost of around £75 million, including £10 million for the Glasgow Tower, with over £37 million coming from the Millennium Commission.
Funding issues
In June 2004, it was announced that about a fifth of the workforce were to be made redundant following the creation of a funding deal with the Scottish Executive.[18] In June 2008, the leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Nicol Stephen, stated that Glasgow Science Centre was facing a 40% cut in government funding.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown commented on this issue during Prime Minister's Questions saying, "It's unfortunate in Glasgow that as a result of the SNP, funding has been cut, and they will live to regret that".
Although funding for the Scottish Science Centres as a whole has actually increased, it is now being split between four centres using a formula based on visitor numbers, and Glasgow is the only centre to face a reduction in budget.
This led to the announcement in July 2008 that 28 full-time jobs were to be cut as a direct consequence of the cuts "in order to secure Glasgow Science Centre's future", according to the Chief Executive, Kirk Ramsay.
Glasgow Science Centre is located in the Pacific Quay area, and as such, is surrounded by the media centres that form the Digital Media Quarter, a Scottish Enterprise development initiative,
With the opening of the new STV headquarters in June 2006 and the beginning of broadcast programming from BBC Pacific Quay in the summer of 2004, it can be expected that more programming will be filmed in the area.
Sculptor: James Milne Sherriff (fl. 1890-1904)
Architect: Colin Menzies (fl. c.1894 - c.1910)
Masons: Thaw & Campbell
Location: 28-32 Buchanan Street, City Centre, Glasgow
Date executed: 1902-4
Classification Commercial Premises (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Stuart Cranston's Tea Rooms; The Regality Club; Argyll Arcade
Trongate is one of the oldest streets in the city of Glasgow, Scotland.
The Tron church clock steeple is
located in the area of the Merchant City commonly known as "Old Glasgow", it is the main route into the central area from the East End.
Trongate begins at Glasgow Cross, the original centre of medieval Glasgow, marked by the Tolbooth clock tower, the remains of the city's original City Chambers destroyed in 1926 by fire.
Westward, it becomes Argyle Street, the most southerly stretch of Glasgow's "Golden Z" shopping thoroughfare.
It was around the 1560s that the name Trongate first began to be used. The name comes by virtue of a weighbeam erected in the mid-16th century, where all goods that were brought in from the Clyde were weighed and taxed. Tron was a Scots word of Norman origin for weighing scales.
The Tron church (built in the 17th century), with its distinctive steeple and clock, is the street's best known landmark. It was substantially redeveloped in the 1980s as the Tron Theatre.
Historically, in line with the rest of Glasgow's medieval area, Trongate fell into decline following the Industrial Revolution as the city expanded westwards, and even today, there are still many derelict buildings and half-closed shops.
In line with the rest of the Merchant City, the area has undergone a renaissance since the 1990s, with new bars, restaurants and upmarket apartment blocks being built from the old Victorian buildings.
The London-based retailer Selfridges acquired the former Goldbergs site on the corner of Trongate and Candleriggs to build a new department store that promised to revamp the area significantly.
However, progress stalled indefinitely after the sale of Selfridges to a businessman from Canada, Galen Weston, in 2003, who intended to revamp Selfridge's flagship Oxford Street store rather than open in Glasgow and other cities such as Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Leeds and Bristol.