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Recording Your Heritage Online

Event ID 564943

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Recording Your Heritage Online

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564943

High Flats, Red Road, 1962, Sam Bunton

26- to 31-storey, steel-framed flats, built by the City's Direct Labour Organisation. When constructed, they were the tallest flats in Europe. 1980s refurbishment includes vigorous coloured patterns on elevations. Having acquired a notorious reputation, now to be demolished.

Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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