Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019515

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019515

Five 31-storey towers and two 27-storey slabs - at this completion, the highest housing blocks in Europe. The climax of Glasgow Corporation's drive to 'give the people homes', and the fulfilment of Sam Bunton's quest for an extravagantly tall, skyscaper-like expression for mass housing. Asbestos-clad, steel-framed structural design highly unusual in a housing context. (Fig. 4.58).

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