Glasgow City Mission building project photo, GCM 20 Crimea Street design property image

Glasgow City Mission, Homeless Resource Centre Building

Glasgow City Mission Building, Crimea St design by Elder & Cannon architects

Address: 20 Crimea Street, Glasgow G2 8PW, Strathclyde, Scotland

Phone: 0141 221 2630

20 Crimea Street building photos © Andrew Lee

1 Feb 2010

Glasgow City Mission Building

The Glasgow City Mission is located in the City’s emerging financial district between the Broomielaw and Argyle Street. Located on the site of a former chapel, the building’s two primary elevations face north and west onto Crimea Street and Brown Street, Glasgow, Scotland. It is surrounded by buildings of varying architectural character, scale and massing constructed over a number of years.

Glasgow City Mission is a resource centre for the city’s homeless community. The primary function centres around the serving of an evening meal in the male and female refuges on the ground and first floors respectively. At these occasions the volunteers will encourage people to return during the daytime to attend courses designed to provide the users with the skills required to succeed in wider society. The middle three floors provide designated spaces for these functions along with the Mission’s administrative headquarters.

The design is framed by the enhanced volume colonnaded ground and top floors, with a staggered and recessed window detail to the intermediate three floors which give a depth and weight to the elevations. The relatively simple and modest design rests on the crisp edges and clean lines of the two street elevations which is achieved using a blue brindled brick and a double soldier course at the floor zones. At the top floor the building envelope steps back from the street line, forming a terrace for the Mission’s gardening club.

Glasgow City Mission information from Elder & Cannon architects

This Scottish Homeless Resource Centre design is by Elder & Cannon architects, a local architectural practice.

GCM is the world’s first City Mission and has been at the forefront of compassionate care for the city’s marginalised since 1826. We offer spirit-led, faith-filled community to vulnerable adults and children within the city, by fighting against poverty and disadvantage in Glasgow. We strive to constantly adapt to the changing needs of our age and the specific needs of those we meet.

Through our three projects, we intend to go further, deeper and wider with our guests for their benefit.