May 16 2022

Glasgow's Princes House is to be replaced by a £75m office block under new plans filed by Mosaic Architecture + Design.

Named Magnet the twelve storey block will square off the junction between Waterloo and West Campbell Street, meeting the street with set back ground floor retail.

Adjoining the adjacent Cadworks development the main elevations comprise bronze capped aluminium curtain walling glazing with natural blonde sandstone cladding from the second to ninth levels and a bronze profiled aluminium grid to the recessed top two floors.

Ground and first floors also have a recessed bronze profiled aluminium grid with external bronze aluminium circular columns.

Neil Haining, director of Mosaic, said: “The location of the site offers the opportunity for Magnet to be a highly visible landmark within the city through the generation of a taller building than that existing on a gateway site to the city centre."

Funded by Garroch Investments the build incorporates east and west facing terraces on the tenth floor. Originally dating from the 1960s Princes House was reclad in 1998.  

3 Comments

#1 Posted by James Hepburn on 19 May 2022 at 12:12 PM

Another exercise in the mundane. Bland seems to be the byword for Scottish architects nowadays.

#2 Posted by Ilias Hisset on 19 May 2022 at 16:43 PM

Hmm what can I find to say about this. Hmmm.

Real shame to lose that cornice return and decorative shield on the neighbouring hotel building.

Yeah, I think that about covers it.

#3 Posted by Bonvivant on 20 May 2022 at 13:49 PM

It looks like an uninspired design from the 70s trying (and failing) to capture the excitement of the 60s.

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