Crown Street Corner

Gorbals, Glasgow

The very last development site within the Gorbals masterplan (save the demolition of the two 60s tower blocks) is at the gushet (flat iron shape) of Crown Street and Lauriston Road, where the original plans proposed a landmark to identify the arrival point south of the bridge from the city. The proposition is a residential tower set back from the gushet itself and skewed to align with the final termination of Old Rutherglen Road winding its historic way from the east. A twisted Scottish Baronial ‘outcrop’ houses the top three floors of the tower, its vertically overlapping windows being identical to the horizontal arrangement on the lower gushet building. Its construction will celebrate the successful completion of this stage of Glasgow’s South Bank transformation. Client: Cruden Estates