Glasgow, Bothwell Street, Heron House. Detail of concrete access steps.
C 5084 CN
Description Glasgow, Bothwell Street, Heron House. Detail of concrete access steps.
Date 15/4/1993
Catalogue Number C 5084 CN
Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images
Copies SC 724616
Scope and Content Concrete access steps, Heron House, No 255 St Vincent Street, Glasgow Heron House, built 1967-71 by architects Derek Stephenson & Partners, is a complex of offices, car park and shops occupying a sloping site enclosing St Vincent Street Lane. This megastructure, which includes a 13-storeyed tower block, is built around the famous St Vincent Street Free Church which was built 1857-9 to designs by architect Alexander 'Greek' Thomson. This shows the dramatic concrete staircase between the low block of shops (left) and the 13-storeyed tower block of offices (right). It is constructed so as to visually connect with the tower of the 19th-century Greek Revival St Vincent Street Free Church on the upper part of the elevated site. The 'Creetown' granite aggregate cladding of the stairs matches the rest of the complex and its rough texture contrasts with the plate glass and aluminium of the shop windows behind. This complex has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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