Scotland's Tallest Building Plans Shelved, Elphinstone Place may never be built Options

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Plans for the construction of the tallest building in Scotland have been mothballed following the collapse of City Lofts, the developer behind Conran & Partners' £120 million Elphinstone Place skyscraper in Glasgow city centre, on the site of the former Strathclyde Regional Council offices at the corner of India Street and St Vincent Street.

It was confirmed last Friday that the residential company City Lofts had gone into administration, which now leaves little hope that the 134m-tall mixed-use project in the west of Glasgow city centre will ever now be built.

The latest news is part of a long-running saga surrounding the construction of the 40-floor tower which would have created 16,000 square metres of office space, 208 residential apartments and additional retail space.

Late last year Conran & Partners was brought in to replace Scottish firm Cooper Cromar (whose proposals are shown below), the original firm on the scheme and proposed to completely redesign the tower – despite the fact that the plans had already been approved by Glasgow City Council in 2004.

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[mitchell]

Good!
What a bloody eyesore. never in my life have I ever seen such a greedy bunch of developers.
Surprised the the National trust and their supporters were not against this pathetic looking building in the centre of one of the oldest cities in the world.
That would be okay for the likes of Sydney, New York and all the other new colonies who do not have heritage listed buildings.

[Glaswegian]

It should never have been approved by Glasgow City Council in the first place; a shocking indictment on our council's inability to deliver what is needed to regenerate Glasgow.

[ryannelson]

I think it's such a pitty, its a magnificant building, one that can bring scotland and Glasgow into the 21st century, isn't it a wonder why so many youths move abroad and that our population is decreasing because we still live in the blooming dark ages?!!!.

Scotland is not by any means a 3rd world country so why not allow such buildings? England and the rest of the uk has them, we seem to be stuck in a society with old moaners.

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[murn]

Sorry but I think you are way off. Who needs another London, New York or L.A.

Glasgow lost far too many of its great historic buildings in the 50-70s and with them it lost its originality.

It is time to show the world we are Glasgow not a carbon copy of some City that has no soul or history. Nothing against new buildings but I do have a lot against these architects that have no imagination, reminds me of the numerous high-rises that went up only to be pulled down a couple of decades or so later.