They look like these high rise jails you find in American cities. You can't expect anything more from Page/Park.

Firstly, congratulations to the design team for playing the game of planning roulette and winning, but let’s not pretend that this is anything other than the most incongruous piece of townscape for the last 20 or more years. In fact, I cannot think of a project that looked more out of place than this – perhaps with the exception of the previous scheme by Stallan Brand.

An extraordinary decision.

Will it interrupt your view from your Ivory Tower ?

As much as this industrial estate is no beauty spot, this is still a new level of ugly even for Glasgow! Clearing most of the land around and building a low density highly green village style would have been a much better option here! Sad days!

Note also how the visualisations (in the planning app) assiduously avoid showing a person's eye view of the development side of the canal. This is because there is absolutely no active frontage of any description. Nothing, nowt, nada. Even the supposed public area is within the confines of a 'walled garden' which I guess can be safely closed off from undesirables after hours via the 2 bridge link walkways.
Brutally incongruous from a distance and patently disfunctional at close quarters. It is so desperately frustrating- it need not have been this way with some place leadership and design governance from the City and with a client like Scottish Opera but when even the vaguest of 'masterplans' for the area is ignored, what chance is there of creating something that could have addressed the canal edge in a positive and vibrant manner. It should have been host to a plethora doorways opening onto the canalside edge and wall buildings with windows all facing onto the water. One, two or perhaps three possible commercial units/cafes/public facing spaces onto the canal walkway would have fed the potential vibrance. Instead we have these strange coffin-shaped monliths with public access and spaces hidden away in undercrofts below the level of the canal. And then we wonder why canalsides/riversides are so much better in the Netherlands or Denmark or Germany (*insert pretty much anywhere else).
There has been some great stuff happening along the canal corridor which makes this even harder to take but it does feel like the City's newest busted flush to go alongside Hamiltonhill,Sighthill, Blackfriars and the last hurrahs of Collegelands. Very,very sad.

That'd be same fun seeing them detonated as Red Road carbuncles. Well done everyone involved for actively killing another part of the city.

We'd be in a much better place as a society if we could only get some of the blue sky thinkers from this online forum into practice. They make it all sound so simple, the professionals must be missing something.

#7 Public opinion on architecture doesn't have merit then? You don't have to be trained to understand that this is a poor response to the canal.

It is not a poor response to the canal -- it is an attempt to add something to a difficult sloping site.

The canal has its own challenges -- a port built halfway up a hill being one of them.

Contour canal in a city centre setting -- only one side was developed so only half a job done compared to other waterways in an urban setting. Glasgow cannot be an economy done at half chat so ScOpe have to be commended for making something of the other bank.

Plus set rental would appear to be a growing business. It might be middle class artisan manufacturing but at least it is manufacturing and if they want to grow using funds from these two sites then at least they are putting in the effort / thinking caps on..

If only they had replaced the Meadowside Granary with large scale buildings showing of this design vibe and colour palette.

My thoughts -- interesting solution / better than filler. Sleepy hollow area of the city that could develop nicely if change and investment are applauded rather than snowed under with complaints from the fat and happy.