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5 Blocks of flats to be blown up during commonwealth games opening ceremony

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I like Glasgow, too (well, a lot of it), and I like the Red Row 'slabs' very much. But if they have to go (and there's no going back on that decision now), then I find it a shame that they can't go in a blaze of publicity.
The City has lost too many buildings without record - consider the fine red-stone 'Coliseum' theatre (designed by Frank Matcham) which stood right alongside the WCML on the approach to Glasgow Central. It dissapeared after a mysterious fire four years ago and without much comment.
 
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The BBC Sportsday live page quoted the following about the reversal....

opposition from critics who said it was insensitive to former residents and to the asylum seekers who occupy the sixth block
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They weren't going to do it with them inside, surely?
 
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DaveNewcastle said:
I like Glasgow, too (well, a lot of it), and I like the Red Row 'slabs' very much. But if they have to go (and there's no going back on that decision now), then I find it a shame that they can't go in a blaze of publicity.
The City has lost too many buildings without record - consider the fine red-stone 'Coliseum' theatre (designed by Frank Matcham) which stood right alongside the WCML on the approach to Glasgow Central. It dissapeared after a mysterious fire four years ago and without much comment.
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To be fair they would never stick a Motorway (M8) through the middle of the City today as was done in the past.

I work in Glasgow and compared to Edinburgh it is a dump :lol:
 
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DaveNewcastle said:
I like Glasgow, too (well, a lot of it), and I like the Red Road 'slabs' very much.
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Same here. They are among the most impressive & imposing buildings I've ever seen.
Here's two of my best shots of the beast:
 

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Butts said:
To be fair they would never stick a Motorway (M8) through the middle of the City today as was done in the past.
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They did effectively that with the recent M74 completion!

The main difference was that they had slowly been demolishing stuff along the route and refusing planning applications for years, to there was less of a big bang demolition.

As an attraction Glasgow suffers from it's proximity to the tourist traps of Edinburgh and Stirling, but it still has plenty to offer, for example the historical architecture (Charles Rennie Macintosh, Alexander 'Greek' Thompson)

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I work in Glasgow and compared to Edinburgh it is a dump
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Well familiarity breeds contempt. I could say the same about Edinburgh.

Take away the castle and the tourist shops of the Royal Mile and there isn't much left that Glasgow cannot also offer.
 
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Funnily enough i remember when the Red Rd flats had not one but two double tracked lines a couple of minutes walk away.
Sadly the anti Rail faction were in full swing when the flats opened.
Looking back I wonder if a railway station might have helped over the last 40 years with the isolated feel about the place.
Strange that there's now a push to open a Robroyston Station only about half a mile up the track.
 
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I wasn't going to respond to the Edinburgh v Glasgow jostling, but couldn't resist this
michael769 said:
As an attraction Glasgow suffers from it's proximity to the tourist traps of Edinburgh and Stirling, but it still has plenty to offer, for example the historical architecture (Charles Rennie Macintosh, Alexander 'Greek' Thompson)
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I think is an outrage that Greek Thompson's work is being neglected to the extent that it is - matched only by my outrage that so much other fine buildings have been destroyed or simply allowed to decay and/or mysteriously catch fire without any suggestion of an appreciation of their merit, or even an attempt to make meaningful decisions about the merits of the City's heritage.

Edinburgh, on the other hand, is very good at making decisions. Bad decisions.
 
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I didn't see the opening ceremony, did this happen in the end?
 
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DaveNewcastle said:
I wasn't going to respond to the Edinburgh v Glasgow jostling, but couldn't resist thisI think is an outrage that Greek Thompson's work is being neglected to the extent that it is - matched only by my outrage that so much other fine buildings have been destroyed or simply allowed to decay and/or mysteriously catch fire without any suggestion of an appreciation of their merit, or even an attempt to make meaningful decisions about the merits of the City's heritage.

Edinburgh, on the other hand, is very good at making decisions. Bad decisions.
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I'm afraid that the average Glasgow "cooncillor" is just as much an ignoramus and philistine as his 1901 counterparts who when it was suggested that there should be Venetian Gondolas on the ornamental lake at the Great Glasgow Exhibition of 1901 voted down the suggestion as "we don't even know what Gondolas eat"!:lol:
 
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