It might be 'singular' but it spoils the existing building, though it probably will fit very well with gm+ad and Keppie. It's neither conservation nor sensitive intervention.
Pity.

They can't be serious - this is a complete joke.

Artto struggled to get a lead lift shaft capping approved by planning the last time they had major work done, so I can't see how they are going to get this passed. Not being, like some, derogatory but realistic instead.

Is that the first time Keppie have been mentioned in the same breath as Elder & Cannon and GM+AD?

do you know any better modern building in glasgow city centre? seriously, glasgow's modern aerchitecture stinks

Can Urban Realm show more pictures of what is happening to that Victorian building? Is it, like Edinburgh's dreadful Glasshouse Hotel, to be stuck like a brooch on the front of a wall of glass?

If that's the case Elder and Cannon have lost all credibility. I know times are hard, but there are limits.

Pretty sensitive and contextual if you ask me QV? Elder and Cannon are one of the very few Scottish architects who always deal with the context of their buildings? No?

When you say sensitive and contextural, so you mean it lines through with the big building on the right?

Can we see a 'before' shot?

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=artto+hotel&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=artto+hotel&hnear=Glasgow&cid=0,0,9610850363285648236&ei=mmnmTLfdN8m0hAfAuqCEDQ&sa=X&oi=local_result&ct=image&resnum=2&ved=0CDIQnwIwAQ

got to link and zoom into street view....

very nice building, don't understand why they can't retrofit then have this contemporary intervention on the top, would be a nice contrast of new and old, however this seems to just be a new mask on an old building. Don't know how it will get through planning.

haha didn't expect it to do that! maybe easier typing in Arto hotel in google maps :P

I've added a streetview image of the present site above.

Destruction of a handsome old building then. I know times are hard, but are they really this hard for Elder and Cannon?

A 'projecting skin of bronze and silver anodized aluminium' sounds as good as it looks.

i like the proposal and would welcome it gladly if it was a different site or wasn't proposing the removal ofthe existing facade.

the existing tenement may not be any great shakes but it really adds something to the ecclecticism of this part of hope st that would be a shame to lose, and dating from the late 1860's, early 70's at most, it is an interesting relic and possibly the last residential build on hope st before entirely commercial use firmly took root.

i think it slightly disingenuous to treat the arrto site as a single entity, it forming only two-thirds of facade built as an elegently unified whole. the single windows have obviously been denuded of theier corbells and cornice but even this doesn't significantly impact on the whole, the later inserted single bay is sweet feature, it must have been done within a decade or two of original construction and thus tells the story of the transition to the use of bays in glasgow, a feature integral to its listed, later, neighbours. it also retains its three chimney stacks, and ok, they're nothing outstanding, but the fact they have survived until now is something special in itself.

it is a pity the hotel doesnt have ownership of the first close of the tenement, as it deserves to be treated as a whole, and, as has been suggested above, limit the intervention to the air space above, and perhaps limit it to an additional three storeys to build up to the scale of its northern neighbours (as i also think the uppermost cornice, rather than the roof line, is the datum they should have followed).

it is a tad incomprehensible to go to the effort and expense of retaining the existing building and then remove its facade.