B-listed Merchant City building to be transformed into small business hub
November 17 2016
A B-listed former garment factory on Glasgow’s Ingram Street is to be sympathetically restored to provide modern office accommodation following the award of a £5m fit-out contract to ISG.This will see a new office entrance created off Montrose Street incorporating the existing loading bay doors with new retail and restaurant spaces inserted at ground floor. A covered arcade will also be created by pulling back a glazed screen behind the original façade, helping to address a change in level from the street to ground floor.
Forming part of a general overhaul of the building structure drawn up by Morgan McDonnell Architects this will see unsympathetic later additions stripped back and reinstatement of period features such as a grand staircase.
Six floors of open-plan offices will be fashioned on upper levels, designed to appeal to a range of technology, creative and start-up businesses by employing an ‘industrial’ aesthetic harking back to the buildings creation.
A feature will be made of cast iron columns with services left exposed to lay bare the original building fabric.
3 Comments
#1 Posted by Terra on 18 Nov 2016 at 09:58 AM
Excellent. It's always heartening to see a tasteful restoration of an historical building. Classy. Glasgow has so many beautiful Georgian/Victorian buildings, fundamental to the city's character, in need of restoring; keep it up Glasgow!
#2 Posted by Billy on 18 Nov 2016 at 11:45 AM
Yeah. Like the look of this. Just love the old buildings. They have a warmth about them that is lacking in today's glass boxes. Hope more will follow.
#3 Posted by Gregor on 28 Mar 2017 at 15:42 PM
I worked in this building for 20 years before it closed for the refurb - great to see it being brought back to life.
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