The box / wrapper is secondary to what happens inside.

Not holding out any high hopes for a full on high value add manufacturing tenant who will move the Glesga GDP needle.

Shoebox satellites is the most we can hope for.

Perplexing why this particular site - so close to what was meant to be the new Dalmarnock Cross- has been designated as industrial use. This looks like something that ought to have gone in the Shawfield section of Clyde Gateway. The masterplan for this site always conveyed this site as a closed perimeter block with buildings addressing the street edge and more particularly the mooted cross. What we get is in essence is an industrial big-box development at key site that has neither urban scale nor grain. The first image conveys this rather well - bleak and misplaced and not contributing to the former ambition for continuous facades and active frontage right next to a major transport node. It looks and feels very much like a continuation of the low density New Prairie Planning* already put in place at the Commonwealth Games Village.
I'm sorry but I don't believe the dream-haze visuals and the softly landscaped interface with the street. If this is not ultimately hived off in 8ft high Orsogrill security fencing I'll be very surprised.
A disappointing - though not unexpected - anti-urban acretion.


PS after having read the D&A study, I'm actually a wee bit embarrassed for the designers to have included the undernoted:

"Crosses are unique parts of the city. They focus activity and density, they help to orientate people, and they provide hubs for transport and facilities. The Clyde Gateway area should be rebuilt around the new and historical hierarchy of streets and crosses to help people find their way around. A series of markers along the River Clyde will also be needed to signpost facilities and connect the river back to the streets and crosses."

*With apologies (and thanks) to Gordon Cullen

Is there any way of blocking people on this ?