Basic Site Details Name: | Cumbernauld Town Centre, Phase I | Town, district or village: | Cumbernauld | City or county: | Lanarkshire | Country: | Scotland | Parish: | | Status: | | Grid ref: | | Notes: | £5.5m
Dudley Leaker, G. Copcutt, John Ogg, Neil Dadge, P. Aitken | Building Type ClassificationThe building is classified under the following categories: | | Classification | Original classification? | Notes | | Urban planning | | |
EventsThe following date-based events are associated with this building: | | From | To | Event type | Notes | | 1959 | | Proposed | Or 1955 according to some sources | | 16 September 1960 | | Proposed | plans to complete a shopping centre with underground parking for 5,000 cars, fed by two main carriageways and a separate main entrance for pedestrians in three years' time per Builder p549 | | 1963 | 1967 | Build/construction | | | 21 August 1964 * | | Build/construction | Development Corporation to proceed with 500,000 sq. ft. town centre, phase I, on a separate sub-contract basis | | 23 September 1966 | | Plans prepared, construction not yet begun | Plans announced by Development Corporation. Phase I & II (£4.5m) together, to incorporate a cinema, concert hall, police & fire stations, banks, hotels, restaurants, technical college and health clinic. Phase II awaiting approval from Scottish Development Department |
* earliest date known from documented sources.
PeopleDesign and Construction
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 | | | p563 | | Glendinning, Miles | 1997 | Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75 | | Tuckwell Press Ltd | p30-1 p49 Photograph of Town Centre p84-5 Aerial of model of Town Centre p86-92 p172 | | 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 | p239 | | Gold, John R | | The Practice of Modernism: Modern Architects and Urban Transformation, 1954–1972 | | | | | http://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/ | | http://www.ajbuildingslibrary.co.uk/projects/display/id/2986 | | | | | Miles Glendinning, Diane Watters, David Whitham | | Docomomo Scotland Leaflet | | | p230 |
Periodical ReferencesThe following periodicals contain references to this building: | | Periodical Name | Date | Edition | Publisher | Notes | | Builder | 16 September 1960 | | | p549 | | Builder | 25 November 1960 | | | 'This Week in Parliament - Development of Cumbernauld New Town' p981 - mention | | Builder | 8 May 1964 | | | p961-962 - illustrated overview of Phase I development | | Builder | 21 August 1964 | | | p407 | | Building | 23 September 1966 | | | p165 |
Archive ReferencesThe following archives hold material relating to this building: | | Source | Archive name | Source catalogue no. | Notes | | Courtesy of Douglas Stonelake | Interview of Douglas Stonelake by Jessica Taylor, 4 November 2008 in Glasgow | | | | Courtesy of William Gillespie | Interview of William Gillespie by Jessica Taylor, 2 February 2009 at ECA | | |
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