The Glasgow Uni Masterplan
Posted: Mon May 17, 2004 4:41 pm
moved here for clarity and tidieness
nodrog
Few more, first of all University Gardens:
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Not quite sure why the 'out' sign is so much fancier than the 'in' sign...
Though the top bit looks a little unconvincingly attached nowadays!
Now, Cranworth Street just up behind Byres Road.
Couple of nice street signs:
A similar-style sign for the tenement block itself:
And most puzzlingly, evidence that the entire street has been renumbered at some point in the past!
I thought at first the '2' of 27 was just no longer visible, but then I saw this one:
Going from being number 2 to number 50 is quite a jump!
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red kola
I presume the 'out' sign is an original, whilst the 'in' sign was done whilst creating the twin monstrosities of the Boyd Orr building and the QMU. How Glasgow Uni got away with fucking up Lilybank I'll never understand...
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nodrog
I don't think so - that stretch of Lilybank is the original wall as far as i can tell - looking at this 1884ish plan you can see the round pillar at the 'out' on the RHS and just the curved wall at the 'in' side on the left:
Still, we can be thankful the money ran out before the Uni's 60s masterplan was completed - this involved bulldozing most everything between Uni avenue and Gt Western Rd for a complex of new buildings.... Hillhead would have pretty much vanished!
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crusty bint
Glasgow Uni masterplan
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nodrog
That would have been the one I was thinking of. Goodbye Aston Lane!
I think we had a very lucky escape there...
There was also a plan to build a set of buildings in front of the south face of the uni - across where the flagpole is - that would have completely spoiled the classic view of the facade on the hill from down Kelvingrove Park way...
Thankfully sanity prevailed that time. Or perhaps funding ran out then as well?
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crusty bint[b]
Take a closer look at the model... Sir George Gilbert Scott's original building was to have been demolished! I cant (and dont want to) imagine Gilmore Hill without it perched there
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[b]nodrog
No I really don't think so - I suspect they just weren't bothering to show the exisiting buildings on the other side of University Avenue on the model, as the focus for all the development was on the north side.
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nodrog
Aha- here's the other plan I was thinking of; the proposed buildings across the front are in red.
The leftmost two were built - the West Medical Building as it is now.
This plan also nicely shows the recreation ground they built the chemistry building i'm sitting in now on top of...
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nodrog
Few more, first of all University Gardens:
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Not quite sure why the 'out' sign is so much fancier than the 'in' sign...
Though the top bit looks a little unconvincingly attached nowadays!
Now, Cranworth Street just up behind Byres Road.
Couple of nice street signs:
A similar-style sign for the tenement block itself:
And most puzzlingly, evidence that the entire street has been renumbered at some point in the past!
I thought at first the '2' of 27 was just no longer visible, but then I saw this one:
Going from being number 2 to number 50 is quite a jump!
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red kola
nodrog wrote:Few more, first of all University Gardens:
Not quite sure why the 'out' sign is so much fancier than the 'in' sign...
I presume the 'out' sign is an original, whilst the 'in' sign was done whilst creating the twin monstrosities of the Boyd Orr building and the QMU. How Glasgow Uni got away with fucking up Lilybank I'll never understand...
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nodrog
red_kola wrote:I presume the 'out' sign is an original, whilst the 'in' sign was done whilst creating the twin monstrosities of the Boyd Orr building and the QMU. How Glasgow Uni got away with fucking up Lilybank I'll never understand...
I don't think so - that stretch of Lilybank is the original wall as far as i can tell - looking at this 1884ish plan you can see the round pillar at the 'out' on the RHS and just the curved wall at the 'in' side on the left:
Still, we can be thankful the money ran out before the Uni's 60s masterplan was completed - this involved bulldozing most everything between Uni avenue and Gt Western Rd for a complex of new buildings.... Hillhead would have pretty much vanished!
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crusty bint
Glasgow Uni masterplan
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nodrog
crusty_bint wrote:Glasgow Uni masterplan
That would have been the one I was thinking of. Goodbye Aston Lane!
I think we had a very lucky escape there...
There was also a plan to build a set of buildings in front of the south face of the uni - across where the flagpole is - that would have completely spoiled the classic view of the facade on the hill from down Kelvingrove Park way...
Thankfully sanity prevailed that time. Or perhaps funding ran out then as well?
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crusty bint[b]
Take a closer look at the model... Sir George Gilbert Scott's original building was to have been demolished! I cant (and dont want to) imagine Gilmore Hill without it perched there
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[b]nodrog
crusty_bint wrote:Take a closer look at the model... Sir George Gilbert Scott's original building was to have been demolished! I cant (and dont want to) imagine Gilmore Hill without it perched there
No I really don't think so - I suspect they just weren't bothering to show the exisiting buildings on the other side of University Avenue on the model, as the focus for all the development was on the north side.
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nodrog
Aha- here's the other plan I was thinking of; the proposed buildings across the front are in red.
The leftmost two were built - the West Medical Building as it is now.
This plan also nicely shows the recreation ground they built the chemistry building i'm sitting in now on top of...
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