New artist's impressions of the reimagined Buchanan Galleries have today been published.
The images are part of the second stage of the consultation of the city centre building with owners, Landsec, now inviting the public, businesses and local community to get involved and share their views and opinions.
The artist's impressions and initial concepts have been released to give an early view of the evolving plans and outline key design principles. These reflect the feedback from the first stage public consultation, and will be tested as part of the second stage events.
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The illustrative images show plans to replace the existing Buchanan Galleries building, creating more green and public spaces, street level shops and restaurants and better connectivity across the city.
Landsec explains their goal is to replace the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre with an 'exciting, new, net zero mixed-use urban district in the heart of Glasgow city centre, blending world-class shopping with places to work, live and play'.
The proposals state that changing the layout to flexible buildings and streets would create new spaces to shop and socialise at street level, whilst bringing additional life and activity to the city centre. The plans also aim to create workplaces and a variety of office sizes with a diverse mix of tenants.
The phase one masterplan will also consider a series of significant, new ‘public realm’ spaces as part of plans to create a cleaner and greener environment and a safe space to walk, cycle and live. A larger, open and fully accessible public space is being considered, to support people in coming together for a range of activities, and to the rear of Queen Street Station a terrace or pavilion to allow cultural and community events to take place.
No decisions have been taken on the Concert Hall steps, however the proposals outline the potential options for reconfiguration to deliver a more accessible entrance which would continue to serve as an outdoor gathering place for public activities and events.
Nick Davis, Senior Development Director, Landsec said: "We had a positive response to stage one of our public consultation and are looking forward to hearing more views and opinions throughout September. These illustrative images aim to bring-to-life some of our emerging ideas for the masterplan which reflects the feedback we have received to date from the public. We want more local voices to help shape our masterplan for this exciting project to create a more accessible, green, safe and vibrant city centre which works for everyone, and we would encourage as many people as possible to have their say.”
During the stage two consultation the public are asked to share their views on the initial plans which will be considered ahead of more advanced designs being shared in the autumn. Full details of how the public and community can get involved are available on the Commonplace website: https://buchanangalleries.commonplace.is/.
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