Glasgow, St Enoch Shopping Centre
Shopping Centre (20th Century), Skating Rink (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, St Enoch Shopping Centre
Classification Shopping Centre (20th Century), Skating Rink (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) St Enoch Centre; St Enoch Square
Canmore ID 68408
Site Number NS56SE 101
NGR NS 59043 64956
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/68408
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS56SE 101 590 649
For (predecessor) railway terminus, see NS56SE 69.
ARCHITECT: Reiach and Hall, Edinburgh, and GMW Partnership, London 1989
Since closure of St Enoch Station (1966, demolished 1974) the site of 6.5 acres was used as a car park. Redeveloped as a raked glass tent, comprising a two-level shopping centre with seven levels for parking (750 cars). Cost: 46m. Provides 280,000 square feet of retail space, with 4 new stores, 72 specialist shops, a food court seating 450, and ice rink. Retail levels linked to parking levels by escalators and wall climber lifts. An 18,000 square foot trading bridge links to refurbished Lewis's department store. Malls enveloped by long lattice trusses at a height of 30 metres. Trusses at 14.4 metre centres, with spans of up to 40 metres. Building 260 metres long, with roof comprising 300,000 square feet of glass area. External glazing by Mellowes, internal cladding and specialist doors by MAG. Designed to use solar heat in combination with heat from the shopping population, requiring mechanical heating on only four days each year. Opened May 1989. Ice rink completed December 1989. Structural engineers: Ove Arup & Partners, Scotland. Developers: Church Commissioners for England and Sears Property Glasgow. Interior design consultants: Helmuth Obata and Kassabaum (USA).
I S Campbell, 1989; RIAS 1987, 1990
Watching Brief (July 2008 - October 2008)
NS 5904 6495 Extension to the current St Enoch’s Shopping centre required the drilling of c160 pile holes to a depth of c30m. Between July–October 2008 119 of these and a large investigative trench, 10 x 10m, were monitored for possible archaeological material. Foundations relating to the 19th century St Enoch’s Train Station were uncovered. No earlier archaeological material was recorded.
Archive: RCAHMS (intended)
Funder: Cyril Sweett Group plc
Daniel Rhodes (AOC Archaeology Group), 2008
