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My heart soars every time I see a giant tower crane in Glasgow
An abundance of tall buildings will soon rise up around Scotland’s largest city ... with building up. Brutalist tower blocks sprang from Glasgow’s edgy areas in the sixties and seventies ...
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Why Scotland’s first skyscraper – built for the 1938 Empire Exhibition – was (unexpectedly?) demolished just one year later
This legend has, however, since been debunked: the tower was always intended to be temporary. Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park was transformed in 1938 to show off new architecture and boost Scotland ...
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'Combustible cladding' found at 57 buildings in Glasgow
Checks of buildings in Scotland have been undertaken in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in London Combustible cladding has been found in 57 private high-rise properties in Glasgow, council ...