Point Blocks=89.0 metres (292 ft) Slab Blocks=79.0 metres (259 ft)
Top floor
31
Technical details
Structural system
Steel frame
Floor count
Point Blocks = 31 Slab Blocks = 28
Lifts/elevators
Point Blocks = 2 Slab Blocks = 6
Design and construction
Architect(s)
Sam Bunton & Associates
Developer
Glasgow Corporation
Structural engineer
W A Fairhurst & Partners
The Red Road Flats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate originally consisted of eight multi-storey blocks of steel frame construction. All were demolished by 2015. Two were "slabs", much wider in cross-section than they are deep. Six were "points", more of a traditional tower block shape. The slabs had 28 floors (26 occupiable and 2 mechanical), the point blocks 31 (30 occupiable and 1 mechanical), and taken together, they were designed for a population of 4,700 people. The point blocks were among the tallest buildings in Glasgow at 89 metres (292 ft), second in overall height behind the former Bluevale and Whitevale Towers in Camlachie. The 30th floor of the point blocks were the highest inhabitable floor level of any building in Glasgow.
Views from the upper floors drew the eye along the Campsie Fells to Ben Lomond and the Arrochar Alps, then west past the Erskine Bridge and out to Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran continuing south over Glasgow and East towards Edinburgh. On a clear day, the buildings were visible on the Glasgow skyline from up to 10 miles (16 kilometres) away. The 31st floor of the point blocks and the corresponding 28th floor of the slabs were reserved as a communal drying area.
Among the best-known of Glasgow's highrise housing developments of the 1960s, the buildings were formally condemned in July 2008 after a long period of decline, with their phased demolition taking place in three stages between 2010 and 2015.
The RedRoadFlats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of...
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Oliver Bond flats in Dublin, Ireland were built in 1936 and have a similar design to many of the council estates in the UK today. The RedRoadflats in Glasgow...
2015. Retrieved 7 July 2015. RedRoadFlats, Glasgow Digital Library GreenCineStaff. "Andrea Arnold: The Path to The RedRoad". GreenCine. Archived from...
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featuring prefabricated housing. Barmulloch shared the RedRoad complex of multi-storey flats with the neighbouring district of Balornock prior to their...
Glasgow-Stirling postal road Huntershill Village Mile Stone Southwest view across Gadloch Towards the distant RedRoadFlats. There are 8 secondary schools...
2014. "SEC Armadillo". Foster + Partners. Retrieved 16 March 2024. "RedRoadFlats: A social history of Glasgow's most controversial towers in 12 pictures"...
"Second of Glasgow's iconic RedRoad tower blocks demolished". BBC News. 5 May 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2019. "RedRoadflats: Glasgow city officials apologise...
Administration in 1978. She spent part of her childhood living in the city's RedRoadFlats. Prior to entering the Scottish Parliament, she worked as a health service...
founded the promotion while living with his girlfriend in Glasgow's RedRoadFlats in 2006. After attending wrestling training to learn the business from...
also included one high-rise development at Birnie Court, part of the RedRoadflats) and Sighthill being constructed post-WWII. The old urban centre of...
Scotland, and since late 2015, following the demolition of both the RedRoadFlats and the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers, the structure is now the tallest...
of large council estates in the UK Cabrini–Green Pruitt-Igoe RedRoadFlats Ballymun Flats Barling, Kurt (30 September 2005). "20 Years On". BBC News....
capable of rotating 360 degrees. Since the demolition in 2015 of both the RedRoadFlats and the Bluevale/Whitevale twin towers, the two western tower blocks...
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Temagami. As the flats were cleared the logged jack pine was towed down Red Squirrel Road towards Highway 11. During 1970, Red Squirrel Road became longer...
Her 2016 work, remiscipate, reflecting the demolition of Glasgow's RedRoadFlats, was commissioned and premiered by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra...
In April 2014, Leckie led a campaign against plans to demolish the RedRoadFlats during the 2014 Commonwealth Games opening ceremony. Leckie was co-chair...
overall housing stock. At RedRoad, 1326 flats were demolished. No direct replacement homes have been built on the site. 2280 flats ceased to exist after...
'Stath Lets Flats' With Joe Mande". Deadline Hollywood. Stath Lets Flats at IMDb Stath Lets Flats at British Comedy Guide Stath Lets Flats at epguides...
demolition of the Derby Street flats at Hilltown, Dundee in 2013 and the Bluevale and Whitevale Towers and RedRoadFlats in Glasgow two years later, the...
convener of the city housing committee. Projects like the brutalist RedRoadFlats originally offered hope of a new beginning and an escape from the overcrowded...
in Glasgow, focusing on 20th century social housing such as the RedRoad high rise flats, rather than the tenement on which previous research had tended...
intersection of Green Road. The Waterfront Line, opened in 1996, extends the Blue and Green Lines from Tower City north through The Flats. It then travels...
Yosemite, SR 120 is known as Big Oak FlatRoad as it heads towards Crane Flat. After leaving Crane Flat, Big Oak FlatRoad turns southeast towards Yosemite...
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