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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 565816
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/565816
Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre, 1984, James Parr & Partners.
Red and grey wriggly metal glandular volumes flanking a central, top-lit atrium, created upon the Queen's Dock to contain party-political conferences, prestigious trade exhibitions, concerts, and the annual Carnival. Most easily identifiable by its Clyde Auditorium, 1997, Norman Foster & Partners - better known as 'the Armadillo' - popularly named from the eight distinctive overlapping aluminium clad shell roofs. With concrete block internal walls, this is industrial construction. With over 3,000 seats, this state of the art conference centre is bigger than the Royal Concert Hall and one of the top conference venues in Europe. Large glass entrance at open end and covered link to the Crown Plaza Hotel. (see also Johnny Rodger, Contemporary Glasgow, 1999 Rutland Press. Forum Hotel, now Crown Plaza, by Cobban & Lironi, 1989, is a tall, staggered blue-glass tower, with a large white podium.
Taken from "Greater Glasgow: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Sam Small, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
