Jamaica Street

New Hotel Tower For Glasgow


This is a new hotel tower scheme in Glasgow planned by architects, Young and Gault, for City Site Estates PLC who are developing the site for Staybridge Suites.

It will be 20 floors high which translates into approximately 60 metres. Very cheap at £7.2 million compared to what's going up down south, the project is set to have 117 rooms within.

The site is at 50 - 58 Jamaica Street in central Glasgow, currently a condemned building that was formerly a job centre.

The design features a blocky tower clad in contrasting black and silver aluminium and glass curtain walling. With plenty of angles that creates a sharply modern appearance from the basic massing form to the indented windows and the patterning of their layout. Responding to the height of the surrounding buildings the silver aluminium only makes an apperance around the height it's neighbours reach their roofs.

Presently the roofline of the buildings lining the road run around about 7 floors creating a flat effect when viewed from the street. One thing this new tower promises to do is puncture this flat effect creating a more visually exciting experience for pedestrians.

Adding a splash of colour at ground level is a pattern of red lines providing visual demarcation between the public and private areas of the building to those outside.

Contrasting shades of aluminium will come in particularly useful for night lighting that will allow the tower to become a striking shape as lighter hues of metal are lit up and the darker shades become less perceptible to the eye.

Before work can begin on the scheme, the planning application has to be approved by Glasgow City Council, although judging from what's previously been approved this will hardly be a difficult hurdle to cross for those working on the plans.

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