Glasgow, 255 St Vincent Street, Heron House
House (20th Century)
Site Name Glasgow, 255 St Vincent Street, Heron House
Classification House (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Bothwell Street
Canmore ID 141239
Site Number NS56NE 493
NGR NS 58348 65538
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141239
- Council Glasgow, City Of
- Parish Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District City Of Glasgow
- Former County Lanarkshire
Publication Account (1997)
Megastructural commercial complex occupying a steeply sloping street-block: dominated by a 200ft. high, 19-storey office tower. Skilfully embraces Alexander Thomson's St. Vincent Street Church as its northwest corner, forming a single, sophistocated composition, with powerful juxtapostion of substructures. The development dramatically envelops St. Vincent Lane in a skylit tunnel. (Fig. 4.53).
Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).