Great Eastern Hotel redevelopment nears completion
September 7 2010
It will provide 48 flats for social rent and 60 homes for private sale alongside a community nursery built by Campbell Construction Group.
A new build portion adjoins the hotel, matching it in scale if not materials. Clad in expanses of yellow render and red brick the properties join the neighbouring Collegelands development in an attempt to reconnect the built fabric of Dennistoun with that of the city centre.
The property has been designated unsuitable for families owing to the danger presented to children under the age of 10 from proximity to the nearby Molendinar Burn and an electricity substation together with the presence of open balconies.
In addition the property has been declared a “car free zone” with limited spaces all allocated to properties sold on the open market within the former hotel building.
Dennistoun bound traffic presently has to run this no man's land gauntlet
Nearby Collegelands is also rattling on apace
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2 Comments
#1 Posted by Auntie Nairn on 7 Sep 2010 at 13:54 PM
"...matching [the A-listed building] in scale if not in materials..." nor in terms of design, ambition, joy, in fact anything that would make you want to linger for more than 30 seconds.
#2 Posted by Graeme on 7 Sep 2010 at 14:54 PM
Looks like a scheme created from a 90s housing association 'pick-and-mix' -some render, ooh a bit of cedar cladding, mmm zinc and oh must have some brick! Clearly inspired by Woolworths! Who are the architects??
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