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Tower Blocks UK: Glasgow City Sighthill
Photographs of multi-storey blocks in Sighthill (Glasgow). Multi-storey block details: Ten 20-storey Crudens slab blocks containing 2280 dwellings, plus low-rise blocks. Commenced 1963-1967. Demolished 2008-2016. It was composed of Sighthill Phase 1A: on Fountainwell Road, four 20-storey blocks containing 912 dwellings (block names: Tennant Heights; St Rollox Heights; Phoenix Heights; Eagle Heights), commenced: 1963; Sighthill Phase 1B: on Fountainwell Road, one 20-storey block containing 228 dwellings (block name: Barony Heights), commenced: 1964; Sightill Phase 2: on Pinkston Drive (G21 1NS; G21 1PG), three 20-storey blocks containing 684 dwellings (block names: 3-5 Pinkston Drive; 17-19 Pinkston Drive; 16-18 Pinkston Drive), commenced: 1964; Sightill Phases 2B, 3: on Pinkston Drive, two 20-storey blocks containing 456 dwellings (block names: Hartfield Heights; Crawfurd Heights), commenced: 1967. Original Commissioning Authority: Corporation of the City of Glasgow; Images taken: 1982, 1983, 2016;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction ...
Tower Blocks UK: Glasgow City Sighthill
Photographs of multi-storey blocks in Sighthill (Glasgow). Multi-storey block details: Ten 20-storey Crudens slab blocks containing 2280 dwellings, plus low-rise blocks. Commenced 1963-1967. Demolished 2008-2016. It was composed of Sighthill Phase 1A: on Fountainwell Road, four 20-storey blocks containing 912 dwellings (block names: Tennant Heights; St Rollox Heights; Phoenix Heights; Eagle Heights), commenced: 1963; Sighthill Phase 1B: on Fountainwell Road, one 20-storey block containing 228 dwellings (block name: Barony Heights), commenced: 1964; Sightill Phase 2: on Pinkston Drive (G21 1NS; G21 1PG), three 20-storey blocks containing 684 dwellings (block names: 3-5 Pinkston Drive; 17-19 Pinkston Drive; 16-18 Pinkston Drive), commenced: 1964; Sightill Phases 2B, 3: on Pinkston Drive, two 20-storey blocks containing 456 dwellings (block names: Hartfield Heights; Crawfurd Heights), commenced: 1967. Original Commissioning Authority: Corporation of the City of Glasgow; Images taken: 1982, 1983, 2016;Context: Tower Block UK is a project supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, bringing together public engagement and an openly-licensed image archive in an attempt to emphasise the social and architectural importance of tower blocks, and to frame multi-storey social housing as a coherent and accessible nationwide heritage. The Tower Block UK image archive is a searchable database of around 4,000 images of every multi-storey social housing development built in the UK. The photographs were largely taken in the 1980s by Miles Glendinning and are made available here for public use. As many of the blocks documented and photographed have since been demolished, the archive functions in part as a repository of information on an important aspect of UK heritage that is now vanishing. The archive itself catalogues multi-storey blocks as part of the developments within which they were initially commissioned and built. It gives details of notable dates, such as when local authorities approved the developments and when construction ...
Tower Blocks UK: Glasgow City Sighthill
Glendinning, Miles (author) / Heritage Lottery Fund / Glendinning, Miles
2023-03-14
Image
Electronic Resource
English
Architecture Building and Planning::Housing , walk-up flats , modernism , Zeilenbau , sectional planning , postmodernism , public housing , modern architecture , mass housing , prefabrication , multi-storey block , neighbourhood unit , low-rise housing , tenement block , residential district , tower block , housing scheme , enterprise housing , socialism , landscape architecture , Art Deco , industrialised building , slab block , housing estate
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