22nd March 2004
Elphinstone's Stylish Addition to Glasgow Skyline
A stylish new sky line landmark is proposed for Glasgow in plans submitted to the City Council by Elphinstone on 22 March 2004. The 39 storey building is proposed to replace the former Strathclyde Regional Council offices at St Vincent Street.
At 134 metres, the skyscraper will be a full 9 metres higher than Scotland's current tallest structure, the Tower at Glasgow Science Centre (125 metres).
To be named "Elphinstone Place" the £100 million residential, office, leisure and retail development will comprise: 202 luxury homes, 20,804 sq m of office and retail space, incorporating leisure facilities with pool on a 1.4 acre site at the western end of St Vincent Street, adjacent to the M8 motorway.
The single tower design, the height of 30 double decker buses had to pass exhaustive wind tunnel tests, the most stringent ever conducted in Scotland and will make it the tallest building in Scotland.
Elphinstone Chief Executive Ken Ross (pictured above right) said " We wanted to create a world class development and the team have created a design which will become a landmark building and an icon that will make Glasgow proud. It will be an outstanding addition to the sky-line of the city and will transform, regenerate and revitalise an important part of the City. Elphinstone Place will provide new homes and workplaces and will underline Glasgow's status as a great European City, reflecting its growing optimism as an exciting place to live and work."
Elphinstone have been working closely with Glasgow City Council, the owners of the site, to maximise the potential of the highly visible location, adding new residential and commercial assets that will be a spur to further regeneration of this area of Glasgow City centre.
Subject to obtaining Planning Permission, Elphinstone intends to start demolishing the current buildings at the end of 2004 with construction work staring in Spring 2005. The development will be ready for occupation in late 2007.