Save the Egyptian Halls
Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2011 4:39 pm
I've already posted this on a couple of threads and many of you are no doubt well aware of this - perhaps even connected with it. But I can't see a thread promoting it... if there is I'm quite sure someone will point it out and this can be deleted or left to sink.
Anyway, a campaign and petition has been launched to attempt to save the Egyptian Halls from demolition.
Rather than reword I'll cut and paste from the Facebook campaign page:
Time is running out to save one of the UK's most impressive A-listed buildings.
Permission is being sought to demolish Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Egyptian Halls in Glasgow's Union Street. This internationally-acclaimed building will be reduced to rubble and the site cleared, and with it we'll lose an integral part of the city's identity.
Unless £2.35 million can be found to save it, the building may be condemned as soon as Summer 2011 and demolished. Once the developers have been granted permission to knock it down, Scotland will lose one of its architectural jewels.
It was described by Neil Baxter, secretary of the Royal Incorporation Of Architects in Scotland, as "the finest surviving example of an Alexander Thomson commercial building. This is a building of the first international importance and it would be a great pity if lack of a relatively small amount of money in terms of public expenditure, condemned this building."
Despite decades of neglect the building is sound and can still be saved for future purpose - if we act soon enough.
Facebook campaign page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-The- ... 6167193950
Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save ... tianhalls/
Anyway, a campaign and petition has been launched to attempt to save the Egyptian Halls from demolition.
Rather than reword I'll cut and paste from the Facebook campaign page:
Time is running out to save one of the UK's most impressive A-listed buildings.
Permission is being sought to demolish Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Egyptian Halls in Glasgow's Union Street. This internationally-acclaimed building will be reduced to rubble and the site cleared, and with it we'll lose an integral part of the city's identity.
Unless £2.35 million can be found to save it, the building may be condemned as soon as Summer 2011 and demolished. Once the developers have been granted permission to knock it down, Scotland will lose one of its architectural jewels.
It was described by Neil Baxter, secretary of the Royal Incorporation Of Architects in Scotland, as "the finest surviving example of an Alexander Thomson commercial building. This is a building of the first international importance and it would be a great pity if lack of a relatively small amount of money in terms of public expenditure, condemned this building."
Despite decades of neglect the building is sound and can still be saved for future purpose - if we act soon enough.
Facebook campaign page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-The- ... 6167193950
Petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/save ... tianhalls/