Architecture Notes

Event ID 730233

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NS75NW 97 71471 55882

ARCHITECT: D G Bannerman 1963

Occupies a 3.7 acre site bounded by Almada Street to south, Beckford Street to east, Clydesdale Street to north, and Douglas Street to west. Intended to house all the County Council's departments. Building begun August 1960. Consists of a 17-storey functionalist tower block of 200 feet linked to a three-storey traditional office block (1938) to NW, and to a circular Council Chamber in forecourt to SW. Main block provides 93,000 sq ft of office space; vertical circulation by means of six high-speed lifts. Features ceramic mosaic-clad gable walls. Council Chamber seats 120, plus 50 press and public; finished with precast concrete glazed screen on base of Broughton Moor slate. Estimated total cost: 1,300,000.

Architectural Prospect 1960; M Glendinning 1997