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Hotel Indigo Glasgow by IHG
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Hotel Indigo · Near Luxury
75 Waterloo Street once lit the city. The Italianate building went up in 1892 as Glasgow's first electric lighting station, with the dynamos in the basement, a little more than ten years after Edison patented the bulb. A 1930 rebuild left the gridded windows and the black granite Art Deco shopfronts. Hotel Indigo opened on 18 April 2011 with ninety-five rooms. ICA Architects cut out the central stair and set a new floor back from the roof so the old street wall could stay.
- 95 rooms
- Opened 2011
- Neighborhood: City Centre Glasgow
About Hotel Indigo Glasgow by IHG
- The old lighting station once fed power toward the Glasgow School of Art, a few streets north. The dynamos sat in the basement of this Waterloo Street block.
- ICA kept 1930s plaster ceilings and the black granite shopfronts, working with the city heritage staff and Historic Scotland on the B-listed fabric.
- At opening, the art included a mural of famous Glaswegians and twenty-five portraits of local heroes by twenty-five young Glasgow artists.
History
Hotel Indigo Glasgow is at 75 Waterloo Street, on the corner of Blythswood Street. The Italianate palazzo was built in 1892 as Glasgow's first electric lighting station. A major alteration in 1930 gave it the grid of windows and Art Deco black granite shopfronts. ICA Architects converted the B-listed building for Hotel Indigo, removing the central stair, adding a set-back roof storey, and keeping 1930s plasterwork. The hotel opened on 18 April 2011 with 95 rooms, owned by Chardon Management.
The setting
75 Waterloo Street, at Blythswood Street, in the financial district west of Central Station. A short walk to the shops, not Theatreland and not the river.
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