Detail of Council chamber link.

Description Detail of Council chamber link.

Date 19/5/1995

Catalogue Number C 50524 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 716153

Scope and Content Council chamber link, Lanark County Buildings, Almada Street, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire Lanark County Buildings were built 1960-4 to designs by the County Architect's Office of Lanark County Council, under the guidance of City Architect, David Gordon Bannerman. They consist of a 17-storeyed office block with a two-storeyed block below linked to a circular Council chamber. This civic headquarters complex is set within a paved entrance 'plaza' with flagpoles, lawns, fountains and pools. This shows a glazed linking corridor supported on columns which joins the circular Council chamber (right) with its narrow rows of vertical windows in pale pre-cast concrete on a green Westmorland slate base, with the main office block (left). The large expanse of tinted glass on the walls of the tower block behind contrasts with the pale colours of the low buildings in the paved 'civic podium' area. This group of buildings are built in the International Modern style of architecture. Comparisons have been made between this important civic building and the larger United Nations Headquarters building in New York, and the Congress building in Brasilia, Brazil. This building has been selected as one of Scotland's key 20th-century Modern architectural monuments. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

Medium Colour negative

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