April 27 2022

Mast Architects have teamed up with Thenue Housing Association to deliver 41 homes for social rent in Dalmarnock, Glasgow.

Occupying a former playing field at Connal Street off Springfield Road the plan calls for a mix of apartments, wheelchair accessible homes and homes all built to housing for varying needs standards.

Joining a spate of housing development in the area following the success of the Athlete's Village the latest addition aims to build out an important street junction with a large flatted block positioned at the junction with Sunnybank Street, anchoring a pedestrian link to the Cuningar Loop Park.

In their design statement, Mast wrote: "The proposed design has been developed within the wider context, in order to reference both the future planned developments, but also the high landmarks surrounding the development site, such as the multi-storey development to Dalmarnock Road and the flatted blocks flanking the Cuningar Loop footbridge."

Finished in a variety of buff, cream and dark facing brick the homes have been designed to slot into the evolving urban context.  

6 Comments

#1 Posted by Oss on 27 Apr 2022 at 15:58 PM

Could Thenue Housing just stop, please. Just cease doing what you're doing, let someone else do it. Or if you must keep going, could you keep going some more, and then a bit more again, then get on a bus and keep going until your wee suburban street-phobic clutches find themselves "anchored" somehwere other than an inner-city and heavy rail connected urban neighbourhood with three major sporting arena less than 10 minutes from the city centre.

Still no sign of a single commercial unit in either this or the Games Village phase 2 outline a decade on. Will Dalmarnock ever get it's local shops back, or is it to be condemned to be a dormitory for another half a century...

#2 Posted by Georwell 84 on 28 Apr 2022 at 12:20 PM

Its soul destroying to watch. East Central Glasgow filled with low density units like this. It does need to be like this! There are examples to work from all over central south and west.

#3 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 29 Apr 2022 at 09:31 AM

Easterhaus in slices -- brutally bad.
Total lack of ambition / complexity / sophistication.
Makes Cumbernauld look good.

We have moved from stack-a-pleb to plant-a-pleb.

Flawed from start to finish -- failing in plain sight and yet they build more / worse.

#4 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 29 Apr 2022 at 09:39 AM

Does this design ethos -- defendable space is a must in social housing -- suggest that the architects / developers have no confidence in subsidised housing tenants being able to live a social life?

Will these houses come with a bath or a shower -- you can't get as much coal in a shower?

This is design by Daily Mail headlines -- not good.

Loss of a playpark -- where will the children go?

#5 Posted by Willing Landlord on 29 Apr 2022 at 12:51 PM

#4 "where will the children go?"

They'll use their fake ID and drink in the pubs instead, of course.

#6 Posted by GMan on 3 May 2022 at 19:05 PM

You would never think for a minute that this used to be a densely populated area with four storey buildings, places where people worked and spent their money in local shops.. It would appear people don't need that stuff anymore. Future Glasgow is spending your entire life staring at four walls as there's nothing worth going outside for, be nothing to do except drink yourself to death.. Exciting prospects await this new neighbourhood.

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