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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).
