July 12 2023

A Queens Park hotel is set to cease trading amidst moves to convert the premises to residential apartments in another pandemic casualty for the sector.

Cameron Webster Architects have been instructed by Ola Properties to convert and extend the Ivory Hotel on Camphill Avenue into 16 flats, after abandoning earlier plans to rebuild the venue. This includes a new build element on the current car park and the reconversion of two townhouses back to housing.

Returning the address to its original use the design approach centres on a contemporary frontage to the parkland opposite, adhering to the residential scale of the South Side, while bookending the sandstone terrace.

In a statement, the architects wrote: "The elevations are highly modelled and reflect the modelled stone elevations of Victorian townhouses and tenements overlooking Queens Park. A deliberate decision was taken to avoid the grid window styling of many city centre developments of recent years which was considered to not be appropriate for the context of the Langside and Shawlands neighbourhood."

New build elements are to be dressed in natural brick with cast stone details with areas of pre-weathered zinc cladding to the roof.

Lane access will be maintained by a pend through the building and lift access to a roof garden will enhance amenities for residents.

8 Comments

#1 Posted by Ben on 12 Jul 2023 at 17:06 PM

Looks very London-esque

#2 Posted by PMG4 on 14 Jul 2023 at 19:43 PM

looks quite interesting and a good mix of old and new. The street opposite the park can handle a modernist answer and it has a scale more thoughtful and appropriate than the 'pack as much in' which is soon to haunt Shawlands for decades to come, sadly.

#3 Posted by town planner on 14 Jul 2023 at 20:18 PM

I think this looks great.

#4 Posted by pooka on 17 Jul 2023 at 11:43 AM

tetris facade fits like a borg cube alongside the tenements and townhouses

#5 Posted by George Buchanan on 17 Jul 2023 at 16:15 PM

Loving the layering of that facade!

#6 Posted by Sue Pearman on 18 Jul 2023 at 10:33 AM

To me it looks like it projects too far out towards Langside Avenue. The proposal effectively builds accommodation where the current conservatory sits, which was previously garden space. It then takes this new forward building line and takes it over the lane and into the current car park. I think it just looks like overdevelopment and because of this it seems massive on the site. The facade design is very busy too and could do more to respect the immediate context.

#7 Posted by Shatner's Bassoon on 18 Jul 2023 at 12:01 PM

No amount of planting and 'facade layering' can forgive the defensive street nullifying ground floor elevation. The entrance through the pend / lane is like a murder strip in a medieval castle and the rest of it looks like a pillbox on the Atlantic Wall.

If you cant provide any communal amenity space or an activated ground floor face because of onsite car parking, surely that's over development of the site?

#8 Posted by Robin B's Discount on 18 Jul 2023 at 13:22 PM

Alexa - design me Homer Simpson's car in the form of a building.

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