Elmbank Gardens is a multi-use commercial complex (and the name given to a former street) in the Charing Cross area of Glasgow, Scotland. Best known for its signature 13-storey tower (often nicknamed the Charing Cross Tower or the Elmbank Tower) which overlooks the M8 motorway and stands directly opposite the Mitchell Library, it was designed by Richard Seifert and constructed between 1970 and 1972. It is one of the tallest and most prominent high rise buildings on the western side of Glasgow city centre, beyond Blythswood Hill. The surface buildings of the subterranean railway station which serves Charing Cross are also an integral part of the complex.
Since 1995, the tower element has been used as a hotel, whilst the remainder of the complex is home to offices and a number of other leisure and entertainment businesses. However, as of 2023 much of the complex is threatened with demolition and redevelopment as part of a wider regeneration plan for Charing Cross.[1]
^Milne, Roger. "Glasgow's Charing Cross area lined up for redevelopment". The Planner. Retrieved 23 August 2023.
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for the ring road. Seifert's other commission for the area was the ElmbankGardens office tower built 0.5 km to the north in neighbouring Charing Cross...
buildings with other uses (e.g. Glasgow College of Building and Printing, ElmbankGardens, Livingstone Tower and The Pinnacle – the latter was originally a commercial...
planned to convert it into a 210-bedroom hotel, in a similar manner to ElmbankGardens in nearby Charing Cross – another example of a concrete high-rise office...
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developments on the western edge of the city centre – new buildings such as ElmbankGardens and the Anderston Centre being prime examples. One proposal in the...
construction of churches, houses, mills and shops. By the mid-19th century, the Elmbank and Forthvale mills were in business on either side of the Menstrie Burn...
grandfather, located 0.8 miles (1.3 km) north of Goddards, and opposite the Elmbank Hotel which, at the time, was the home of Sidney Leetham, an uncle of Kathleen...
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Broomielaw (along the River Clyde) to the south; and Charing Cross and Elmbank Street, beyond Blythswood Square to the west. The northern boundary (from...
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powerful intellect until the closing days of his life." He died at home, 13 Elmbank Crescent, in west Glasgow. He is buried against the north wall of the Grange...
Macfarlane & Co., George Smith (Sun Foundry) and James Allan Snr & Son (Elmbank Foundry), supplied the majority of cast iron urinals across Britain and...
Street; built before 1870 for William Edmund Phillips, since demolished. Elmbank, off Dorchester Street; built in the 1870s for Andrew Robertson, since...
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engineers aboard Titanic is located in the offices of the Scottish Opera at 39 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow – formerly the headquarters of the Institution of Engineers...
the west where suburbs at Dowanhill and Partickhill were laid out on the garden principal with villas and cottages in a number of styles. Similarly, the...
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