26 . Glasgow Business November/December 2012
Here, we look at the recent great developments which are making Glasgow an even better city
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The Hydro
Theatre Royal
Work to create much-needed new public spaces for Glasgow’s Teatre Royal began in August, in an ambitious project which aims to create a world-class venue and transform the experience for audiences at one of the most beautiful and historic theatres in Scotland. Scotish Opera, which has owned the
theatre since 1974, has been leading the campaign to raise the necessary funding to carry out the work, which will cost £11.5 million and will be complete in time for Glasgow’s hosting of the Commonwealth Games in 2014. In August, the Heritage Lotery Fund added its support to the project, awarding a grant of £850,000.
Glasgow School of Art
Work is also well under way at Glasgow School of Art’s Garnethill Campus with Steven Holl Architects of New York, in association with Glasgow-based JM Architects and Arup Engineering. Te core principle of Phase 1 of the campus
plan is a new, purpose-built academic building, housing a broad range of studios and teaching facilities for the School of Design, as well as workshops, lecture facilities, communal student areas and exhibition spaces for the School as a whole, and a new Mackintosh interpretation centre.
ScottishPower HQ
ScotishPower is to build new 14-storey, 22,000ſt headquarters in Glasgow city centre housing about 1,500 staff. Work on the office complex, located on the
corner of St Vincent Street and India Street, will start in 2013 with completion targeted for late 2015. Te site was previously home to the former Strathclyde Regional Council. In 2008, a planned skyscraper project was dropped aſter the financial crisis. Helical Bar, with Scots-based partner Dawn Developments
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