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Cowcaddens earmarked for 286 student flats

October 5 2016

Cowcaddens earmarked for 286 student flats
Mosaic Architecture & Design have filed revised plans to build a 286 bed student housing development at Dunblane Street, Glasgow, extending a gold rush to provide purpose built accommodation in the city.

Conceived as a rectangular urban block alongside the B-listed Piping Centre and A-listed Scottish Ambulance building the brick clad structure will offer accommodation for the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland around two landscaped courtyards offering amenity space for residents.

In their design statement the practice noted: “The ground floor forms the primary access level with the primary entrance off Mcphater Street. This level also supports a large percentage of the student amenity space which is focused around the entrance onto the public square. The amenity space also breaks out into the upper courtyard to ensure this external space is used as part if the everyday life of the building.”

Accommodation will range from a number of exclusive ‘garden studio’s’ on the lower ground floor overlooking the courtyard to five bedroom cluster flats with massing stepping back from the fourth floor to introduce a number of roof terraces.
A plant room, bike and bin store will be sunk into a lower ground floor
A plant room, bike and bin store will be sunk into a lower ground floor
THE project will re-establish an active street frontage
THE project will re-establish an active street frontage

1 Comment

George Buchanan
#1 Posted by George Buchanan on 6 Oct 2016 at 14:34 PM
I like this well mannered, contextual design. Well done Mosaic.

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