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Glasgow Live
Glasgow Live
National
David McLean

Glasgow's unbuilt 'vision of the future' that would've dominated the city centre

We've witnessed no shortage of lofty buildings being constructed in Glasgow in recent years, but nothing on the scale of the unbuilt Skyhouse.

Proposed back in 2002 for the brownfield site at the former College Goods Yard off Glasgow's High Street, the 100-metre-tall vision of the future would have dwarfed everything else around it.

The Skyhouse, which was the brainchild of London Eye architects Marks Barfield, would have contained up to 500 homes with sub-tropical sky gardens on the 10th floor and incorporated retail units and well-being facilities.

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