Basic Site Details Name: | Woodside CDA | Town, district or village: | Woodside | City or county: | Glasgow | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | 1500 houses, nursery and primary schools for Glasgow Corporation (given in 1975 RIBA directory under Boswell Mitchell & Johnston) | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Housing | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1960 | | Plans prepared, construction not yet begun | Boswell, Mitchell & Johnston invited to prepare sketch plans per Builder p851 | | 29 April 1960 | | | 105-acre site ('from St George's Road to Phoenix Park and the Forth and Clyde Canal, and from Oakbank south to Garnethill'); 4,900 of 64,000 existing houses will be demo'd; 3,400 closed as unfit/unsafe; 6th in priority of 29 redevelopment areas in Glasgow per Builder p851 | | 18 September 1964 | | | 'Bison' flats chosen for three 23-storey blocks, forming first stage of Corporation's Woodside CDA - 315 dwellings in two-room flats and three- and four-room maisonettes, c. £1.5m | | 14 February 1964 | | Proposed | £30m redevelopment plan placed before Secretary of State for Scotland - a multi-level junction is planned, as are new schools, shopping centres, and housing. Work has already begun on clearance of properties per Builder p368 | | 1965 | 1967 | Build/construction | Area A Phase 1: 315 dwellings in three 23-storey 'Bison' slab blocks | | 1968 | 1970 | Build/construction | Area A Phase 2: medium-rise blocks between four and eight stories in height | | 31 August 1970 | 16 December 1973 | Build/construction | Area A Phase 3: 215 dwellings in two eight-storey blocks and one five-storey block (32 four-apartment terrace houses with private outdoor areas for families costing 5,201; 61 one-apartment flats for single occupancy costing £3,132; and 122 two-apartment flats for young and elderly married costing £3,659) | | c. 1984 | | Alteration/conversion | Recladding of three slab blocks. | | After 1968 | 1976 | Build/construction | Areas B - D: medium-risde blocks between four and eight stories in height |
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ReferencesBibliographic ReferencesThe following books contain references to this building: | | Author(s) | Date | Title | Part | Publisher | Notes | | Glendinning, M, MacInnes, R and MacKechnie, A | 1996 | A History of Scottish Architecture | | | p555 | | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p24 Woodside Area B p41 Photograph of Woodside Area B | | Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan | 1994 | Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland | | Yale University Press: New Haven and London | p262 p381 Gazetteer 2 | | RIBA | 1975 | RIBA Directory of practices | | | | | Williamson, Riches, Higgs | 1990 | Glasgow (The Buildings of Scotland) | | | p299 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 29 April 1960 | | | 'Residential Development' p851 | | Builder | 18 September 1964 | | | p626 | | Builder | 14 February 1964 | | | p368 | | Industrialised Building Systems and Components | October 1964 | | | p71 | | Prospect | | | | 1979-80 (13) |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Strathclyde Regional Archives | Glasgow Dean of Guild | | GCA DG: Area A Phase 1, 1965/535; Area A, Phase 2, 1968/181; Area B Phase 3, 1970/328 and 1972/657; Area D, 1974/766 |
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