Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019528

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019528

A 17-storey, 200 ft. high adminstrative slab block, juxtaposed with a circular council chamber and other low buildings. An exemplary realisation of a particularly Modern building tpe, the monumental, curtain-walled administrative/governmental tower (as pioneered at the UN Headquarters in New York, and a Brasilia), and a noble civic 'acropolis' for urban Lanarkshire. Lavish materials and finish worthy of a great public building, including curtain walling and ceramic mosaic-clad gable walls. Listed (at Category A) by Historic Scotland, in November 1993. (Fig. 4.64).

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