Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019512

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019512

The centrepiece of the architecturally prestigious redevelopment of the Gorbals: two dramatic 20-storey slabs, whose inset communal drying areas were intended as a multi-storey re-enactment of the tenement 'community' they replaced. Rugged external modelling combined with intricate split-level internal planning. Following intractable management and structural difficulties, the blocks were dynamited on 12 September 1993. (Fig. 4.54).

Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).