Housing, Queen Elizabeth Square, Hutchesontown C, Gorbals, Glasgow: pedestrian passing under the pylons
Architect/Designer | Sir Basil Spence Glover & Ferguson |
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Artist/Photographer | Snoek, Henk (1915-1980) |
Country | UK: Scotland |
City | Glasgow |
Subject Date | 1965 |
Image Date | 1967 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Brutalist |
Medium | Photoprint |
Library Reference | AP Box 845 Oddities (S63 4356) |
Orientation | Landscape |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | Henk Snoek / RIBA Collections |
Subject | Riverside buildings ; Skyscrapers ; Housing ; Concrete ; Flats ; Brutalism: Massive Forms |
NOTES: Hutchesontown C was the name given to a so-called Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of the city of Glasgow, designed by Basil Spence in 1960-1965. The design of the central 20-storey block was inspired by Le Corbusier's Unite d'Habitation, Marseille. It was demolished in 1993.
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