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Radisson Blu Hotel, Glasgow
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom · Radisson Blu · Accessible Luxury
Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop stretched a copper screen along Argyle Street like a ship's hull, held to the old twenty-metre height of the street, about as high as a Victorian fire ladder could reach. Slate bedrooms sit behind it, and a top-lit internal street holds the bars. Radisson SAS opened the hotel in November 2002 at 301 Argyle Street, just west of the Hielanman's Umbrella, with 247 rooms. Twelve of them push out through the copper. You see the prow before you see the door.
- 247 rooms
- Opened 2002
- Neighborhood: City Centre Glasgow
- Architect: Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop
About Radisson Blu Hotel, Glasgow
- The 2003 Scottish Design Awards gave the building the Architecture Grand Prix. It was also shortlisted for RIAS Best Building in Scotland that year.
- Rooms are taller than a new hotel usually allows. Ceiling heights were taken from the Category B baroque block at 62 Robertson Street, and the windows run floor to ceiling.
- It opened as Radisson SAS, the brand's first new-build in Scotland. Five-star status followed in June 2005. Scottish Business Hotel of the Year came in 2008.
History
Radisson Blu Glasgow, 301 Argyle Street, G2 8DL, opened in November 2002 as the Radisson SAS, designed by Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop of gm+ad. A copper screen follows the Argyle Street line at the old twenty-metre height of the street, which Dunlop tied to the reach of a Victorian fire ladder, so a taller slate hotel could sit behind it. Twelve rooms cantilever through the copper. An internal top-lit street holds reception and the bars. The operator's opening count was 247 rooms. Early design notes said about 250. The site, west of the Hielanman's Umbrella, had been derelict. Scottish Design Awards Architecture Grand Prix, 2003. Five-star status in June 2005. Scottish Business Hotel of the Year, 2008.
The setting
301 Argyle Street, G2 8DL, just west of the Hielanman's Umbrella and Central Station, with Robertson Street and Oswald Street on the flanks. The walk south is toward the Clyde and Broomielaw, not the Concert Hall.
Awards
- Scottish Business Hotel of the Year (2008)
- Scottish Design Awards, Architecture Grand Prix (2003)
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