Elphinstone Place
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Elphinstone Place is a skyscraper currently under construction in Glasgow. The building, which has been in the planning stage since 2004 is mixed use, consisting of offices and apartments. The street level areas of the building are to house leisure facilities such as bars and cafes and retail outlets. Harvey Nichols has been suggested for this site.
This 39-storey structure will be situated at the western end of Blythswood Hill on the edge of Glasgow's financial district, on the former site of the Strathclyde Regional Council headquarters on St. Vincent Street.
When completed it will be the tallest structure in Scotland, surpassing the Glasgow Tower. Following the controversy surrounding Glasgow's constuction of numerous high-rise tower blocks in the 1960's (many of which were poorly built and have since been demolished) few new residential towers have been built in the city.
This is now changing. The Glasgow Harbour project entails the construction of several such buildings along the River Clyde (though none are as tall as Elphinstone) and has so far been relatively successful in that occupancy has been high.
In addition to Glasgow Harbour there are proposals for other high rise buidings in the city. Interestingly a number of these proposals (Elmbank Place,Charing Cross Tower & the Cheapsidescheme) are for the area surrounding the Elphinstone building, leading to speculation that a 'high rise cluster' may appear in the Charing Cross area of the city.
Demolition of the existing building on the site began in early 2006. The site is nearly cleared for building. Construction of the new building is expected to get underway in early 2007, with completion in 2008.
