Hotels...too many or not enough?

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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby RapidAssistant » Fri May 02, 2014 11:47 am

On the subject of hotels; have they started building the one at the corner of Argyle St and Oswald St on the site of Intercity House yet?? - the planning was approved in November....

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-gla ... t-24904656
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby Targer » Fri May 02, 2014 4:39 pm

While everything in the article may be true this is not exactly a brilliant piece of architecture. Some of the previous designs proposed for this site were far,far better.
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby RapidAssistant » Sat May 03, 2014 8:08 am

Targer wrote:While everything in the article may be true this is not exactly a brilliant piece of architecture. Some of the previous designs proposed for this site were far,far better.


That was my thoughts as well - when you look back to the original office block plan it seemed a far more striking building than the one they want to build now - which just looks like a toned down version of the original. A pretty poor effort when compared to the Radisson across the street.
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby rabmania » Sat May 03, 2014 9:19 am

Targer wrote:While everything in the article may be true this is not exactly a brilliant piece of architecture. Some of the previous designs proposed for this site were far,far better.


understatement. See the poxy new Premier Inn on the Clyde to see how low we can go.

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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby RapidAssistant » Mon May 05, 2014 8:55 am

Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby rabmania » Mon May 05, 2014 9:01 am

RapidAssistant wrote:Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.


it's still shit.
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby RapidAssistant » Mon May 05, 2014 9:07 am

rabmania wrote:
RapidAssistant wrote:Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.


it's still shit.



It is. But at least the rooms are only £29 a night if you book well in advance. And you don't have to look at the building when you are in it......
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby Godsgift » Tue May 06, 2014 5:34 pm

RapidAssistant wrote:
rabmania wrote:
RapidAssistant wrote:Trouble is, its the "steel and glass box" paradigm that architects have been obsessed with in the last decade. Equally though you can argue that we'll look back at such buildings in 30 years time and say, "well that was the style of the noughties", in much the same way that Brutalist bare concrete was fashionable in the '60's and '70s, and that facades made of smoked glass and polished granite were fashionable in the 1980s and so on.....or indeed that carved red and blonde sandstone was fashionable at the turn of the 20th Century. It's all relative at the end of the day.


it's still shit.



It is. But at least the rooms are only £29 a night if you book well in advance. And you don't have to look at the building when you are in it......


At last. A new building that makes the parliament building look good. :)
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Re: Hotels...too many or not enough?

Postby RapidAssistant » Wed May 14, 2014 3:09 pm

Given that new Premier Inn next to the Science Centre is such a derivative, off-the-peg piece of architecture that no doubt cost buttons to erect, they will be able to recoup most of the construction cost through the punitive rates they'll be charging for a room during that sporty thingy that's happening the last week in July.
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