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City Halls Glasgow Building
Merchant City Building, Albion Street – Architectural Redevelopment, Strathclyde, western Scotland
post updated 21 September 2023
Address: Albion St, Candleriggs, Glasgow G1 1NQ
Phone: 0141 353 8000 Location: Merchant City
Architect: James Cleland
Built: 1817-
City Halls building photo © Adrian Welch
City Halls Glasgow Old Fruitmarket Building
City Halls + Old Fruitmarket renovation
Date of renewal: 2006
Design: Glasgow City Council Architects with Arup Acoustics
Development for BBC Scotland
Albion St, Candleriggs property images © Adrian Welch
£8m City Halls project in Glasgow Merchant City gained approval at Glasgow Council’s cultural and leisure services committee. The City Halls will become the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBCSSO) base, the Scottish Music Information Centre and Glasgow home for the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, due to finish by autumn 2004.
The next-door Fruitmarket will be renovated as a break-out space for the project. Nov 2002
The City Halls are part of a market complex designed by John Carrick in 1882. The grand hall itself was designed by George Murray and opened in 1841.
It was the first hall suitable for large gatherings and concerts to be built in the City and hosted famous British figures such as Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, and William Ewart Gladstone.
From its early days it hosted a wide variety of popular and classical concerts.
The Old Fruitmarket directly adjoins the grand hall and was a functioning market until the 1970s after which it was in occasional use for jazz and folk music events. The adjoining buildings were home to bustling produce markets such as the fresh fruit and flower market and the cheese market.
Merchant City Buildings
Contemporary Glasgow Merchant City Architectural Designs – recent Strathclyde property selection from this website:
Candleriggs Square Apartments, Merchant City
Candleriggs Square Apartments Merchant City
Glasgow Cross, Alba Town
Glasgow Cross
Panopticon, Argyle Street
Trades Hall, 85 Glassford Street, G1 1UH, Merchant City
Trongate 103, Argyle Street
Merchant City buildings close by:
Ingram Square Flats, centre of the Merchant City
Ingram Square Flats
Hutchesons Hospital, 158 Ingram St, G1 1EJ
photo © Adrian Welch
Hutchesons Hospital
Hutchesons’ Hall is an early nineteenth-century building in Ingram Street, in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland. It is owned and maintained by the Rusk Company and National Trust for Scotland, and is a category A listed building.
Glasgow Historic Building Designs
Historic Glasgow Property Designs – recent Strathclyde architectural selection below:
Custom House Building Renewal
Custom House building image courtesy of Artisan Real Estate
Glasgow Custom House Development
Historic Gorbals Building
Gorbals building photograph courtesy of Urban Union
166 Gorbals Street Glasgow community space gallery building
City Chambers, George Square, city centre
property photo © Adrian Welch
City Chambers
Architecture in Strathclyde
Glasgow Armadillo – Clyde Auditorium building, on the north side of the River Clyde, next to the SEC
Armadillo building photo © Isabelle Lomholt
Historic Glasgow : best Glasgow buildings of the past
Glasgow School of Art – GSA Building at 167 Renfrew Street, designed by famous Scottish architect Rennie Mackintosh
GSA architecture photo © Adrian Welch
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