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Taken from Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie architects

http://www.jaandw.co.uk

"THE PROPOSAL INCLUDES THE DEMOLITION AND REFURBISHMENT OF EXISTING PROPERTIES AT COOK STREET, WEST STREET, WALLACE STREET AND TRADESTON STREET GLASGOW TO CREATE 166 NO.1, 2 AND 3 BED APARTMENTS WITH GROUND FLOOR PARKING. THE DEVELOPMENT IS PROPOSED TO COMPLETE THE FIRST “SUPERBLOCK” OF THE TRADESTON AREA, PAVING THE WAY FOR THE COUNCIL’S “VISION FOR THE FUTURE”."

Some research

Tradeston Gas Works in Kilbirnie Street, photographed in 1911. In the foreground are railway lines and wagons of the General Terminus & Glasgow Harbour Railway, which ran through the area occupied by the works.

The Glasgow Gas Light Co built the Tradeston Gas Works in 1835 to supply the south side of the city. The works came under municipal control in 1869, and the Town Council's Gas Department immediately began a programme of rebuilding and re-equipment. This was repeated in the years following the Second World War. The works closed in 1970.

The gas works was the scene of one of Glasgow's rare bomb outrages. On the night of 20 January, 1883, two loud explosions were heard at the works and sheets of flame were seen issuing from a large gasometer, which then collapsed. The force of the explosion was felt several miles away, and adjacent properties were damaged when the flames spread to them. After a painstaking police investigation, a number of arrests were made and nine men were eventually jailed. They were found to be members of the Ribbon Society, an offshoot of the Fenian Brotherhood in Dublin that was a forerunner of the Irish Republican Army.

The future development planed for Tradeston

www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/tradeston.htm

Postcard From Tradeston

Hi all,

I have been away on this Residency in Aberdeenshire and I got home tonight and got this from Jenny, Headley and Laura. I thought you all might want to have a look.

What about under the Bridge as a stop for a cabin? VERY loud and quite isolated. Not many people but near the co-op building.

By personal favourite for the location of the cabin would be by all the railway arches before the bridge to cross the Clyde. It could be a chance to connect with the local communities of traders that work from the railway arches. What really appealed to me was a sign above the arches on the railway track saying, 'WELCOME TO GLASGOW QUEEN STREET' . It is a street that is blocked off at the end with a bus top and a fast food burger van. Many people on foot. Also you can see into Tradeston and across the river into the City Centre.

What do you think?

Charlie

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I would like to officially propose the car park next to the car-wash as a location for a cabin.
That block is really interesting. It’s got a factory on the south east corner that looks like it was built for a far grander purpose.
The north east corner has a office block. The offices seam to be a very modern façade grafted onto the ground floor of an old building.
The North west corner is dominated by a derelict building.
While the East side is the location of Sly's car wash, a temporary installed business-using workman’s cabins.

All the elements of Tradeston are represented on the block.

What do you think? Please reply to this in comments of email cabinexchange@yahoo.co.uk and I will put them up.


Jake





Artists impression

ideas for bridge/cabin

A bridge across the Clyde designed by the Richard Rodgers Partnership; it will the Partnership say, “act as a catalyst for the development of Tradeston as a new urban centre and re-inforce Glasgow’s status as a world class city.”

They are thoughts in Glasgow that architecture has to be Pro- Active not Reactive. Does this lead to insensitivity to a site’s history and community?

With The bridge plans on the cards could the cabin be placed as close to the path of the proposed bridge as possible? The Glasgow Sailing Centre is going to close and relocate, as the bridge is to connect to the south side on that land. On the recce I remember that there were interesting conversations about this topic. Maybe we could put the cabin in the sailing centre’s car park?

Cabins are subtle signposts of change, regeneration or repair. Which is a nice connection to this building of the new bridge.
By February is the bridge going to be in early stages of building work?
If so on that corner of the road that at that point in February could well be closed off, but it is a busy corner as lots of passing traffic, granted fast moving if the road is still open.

Any other ideas on locations for the cabin?

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