Basic Site Details

Name: Springburn CDA
Town, district or village: Springburn
City or county: Glasgow
Country: Scotland
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Building Type Classification

The building is classified under the following categories:
 ClassificationOriginal classification?Notes
Item 1 of 1Housing  

People

Design and Construction

The following individuals or organisations have carried out design/construction work. Where architects or practices worked together, matching letters appear beside their names in the Partnership Group column.
 NameRolePartnership GroupFromToNotes
Item 1 of 2Glasgow Corporation Housing Department (later Architectural & Planning Department, Glasgow Corporation)     
Item 2 of 2Archibald George Jury A  Local Authority architect

Related Buildings, Structures and Designs

Child Structures

This structure or site has the following component or child structures (click on an item to view details):
 Building NameNotes
Item 1 of 5441 Corporation houses, Springburn CDA Area A 441 dwellings in three 19-storey tower blocks, one long six-storey block, and a variety of three- and four-storey blocks.
Proposals only, the Coporation sacked Matthew and built Reema blocks on the same site. (See Tower Block p226)

Reema scheme: Two 25-storey tower blocks comprising 200 dwellings with garages and parking lots. Estimated cost £800,000.
Item 2 of 5Deck-access blocks of flats, Balgrayhill, Springburn CDA Area BTen five and six-storey deck-access blocks containing 557 houses ranging from one-person/one-apartment houses to seven-person/six-apartment houses. Blocks linked by freestanding towers containing lift and drying areas. This was the first development in Glasgow incorporating deck-access flats.
Item 3 of 5Fernbank Housing Scheme, Springburn CDA Area CFour six-storey and lower stepped blocks
Deck blocks built 1971 in the French Camus system (Glendinning, 1997, p148)
Item 4 of 5Four tower blocks, Balgrayhill, Springburn CDA Area BTwo 26-storey blocks containing 200 flats and two 25-storey blocks containing 192 flats.
Item 5 of 5Springburn CDA Area B HousingFour towers of twenty-five and twenty-six storeys and seven (?) linear six-storey slabs of deck-access flats linked by free-standing towers containing lift and drying areas. A.A. Wood had advoated these brick deck-access blocks, and this was the first Glasgow scheme to incorporate them.

References

Bibliographic References

The following books contain references to this building:
 Author(s)DateTitlePartPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 2Glendinning, Miles1997Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75  Tuckwell Press Ltdp148 Photograph of Springburn CDA Area C, 1989
Item 2 of 2Glendinning, Miles and Muthesius, Stefan1994Tower Block: Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland Yale University Press: New Haven and Londonp226
p381, Gazetteer 2

Periodical References

The following periodicals contain references to this building:
 Periodical NameDateEditionPublisherNotes
Item 1 of 1Official Architecture and PlanningAugust 1963  p867-9