Glasgow, St Enoch Shopping Centre
Also known as
St Enoch Centre; St Enoch Square
Classifications: Shopping Centre(20th Century),Skating Rink(20th Century)
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Location Details
Local authority: Glasgow, City Of
Parish: Glasgow (City Of Glasgow)
Former region: Strathclyde
Former district: City Of Glasgow
Former county: Lanarkshire
Further details
Site number: NS56SE 101
Unique identifier (UID): 68408
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| 551 244/1/126 | SIMPSON AND BROWN PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM 126 | Sub-Group Level |  |
| 551 5/13/5 | Archive from Watching Brief at St Enoch's Centre, Glasgow | Sub-Group Level | |
| 551 5/13/5/1 | Black and White Print Photographs and Negatives from the Watching Brief at the St Enoch's Centre, Glasgow. | Batch Level | |
| 551 5/13/5/2 | Colour Slide Film of the Watching Brief at the St. Enoch's Centre, Glasgow. | Batch Level | |
| A 59624 | St Enoch Centre View from South West, showing Centre under construction | Item Level | |
| A 59625 | St Enoch Centre View from South West, showing Centre under construction | Item Level | |
| B 16965 | St Enoch Centre Aerial view from South East centred on St Enoch Centre | Item Level | |
| B 42843 CN | St Enoch Centre View from North West | Item Level | |
| B 42843 | St Enoch Centre View from North West | Item Level | |
| B 42844 CN | St Enoch Centre View of West entrance | Item Level | |
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Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 736429
NS56SE 101 590 649
For (predecessor) railway terminus, see NS56SE 69.
Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 814163
ARCHITECT: Reiach and Hall, Edinburgh, and GMW Partnership, London 1989
Since closure of St Enoch Station (1966, demolished 1974) the site of 6.5 acres was used as a car park. Redeveloped as a raked glass tent, comprising a two-level shopping centre with seven levels for parking (750 cars). Cost: 46m. Provides 280,000 square feet of retail space, with 4 new stores, 72 specialist shops, a food court seating 450, and ice rink. Retail levels linked to parking levels by escalators and wall climber lifts. An 18,000 square foot trading bridge links to refurbished Lewis's department store. Malls enveloped by long lattice trusses at a height of 30 metres. Trusses at 14.4 metre centres, with spans of up to 40 metres. Building 260 metres long, with roof comprising 300,000 square feet of glass area. External glazing by Mellowes, internal cladding and specialist doors by MAG. Designed to use solar heat in combination with heat from the shopping population, requiring mechanical heating on only four days each year. Opened May 1989. Ice rink completed December 1989. Structural engineers: Ove Arup & Partners, Scotland. Developers: Church Commissioners for England and Sears Property Glasgow. Interior design consultants: Helmuth Obata and Kassabaum (USA).
I S Campbell, 1989; RIAS 1987, 1990
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