Multicoloured Hotel For Queens Dock Glasgow

Multicoloured Hotel For Queens Dock Glasgow

Queen's Dock in Glasgow is one of the most important development sites in the city thanks to the plans to developer the new Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre there plus abortive bids by Glasgow for a super-casino.

Adding to the redevelopment of the area, the CDA Group have designed this new hotel tower to stand on one end of the site as one of the centre-points.

Rising 20 floors high above transparent lower floors, the tower will be clad in multi coloured material, an effect CDA have used before to great effect at the new Telegraph headquarters in London. Curving onto the corners, the colourful main body of the tower contrasts greatly with the centre core of it, more plainly designed.

Both the hotel and a nearby lower-rise office block are set at right angles on the sides of the plot that will be largely taken up by a enclosed multi-storey car park for 1500 cars that's topped by an enormous roof garden, large enough for serious landscaping.

The scheme is being developed by Macdonald Estates to compliment a nearby Norman Foster design for an arena that will sit literally over the road from this project. It will be connected to this by raised walkways that will channel pedestrians over the road and create a smoother traffic flow underneath for improved motor access to the car-park.

If they get the go-ahead for the £145 million project then construction is slated to begin in 2008 on the multi-storey portion with the office element in 2009 and hotel in 2010.

Kjoler
the group theory