The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers were twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Officially named 109 Bluevale Street and 51 Whitevale Street, and often nicknamed the Gallowgate Twins or the Camlachie Twin Towers, the two towers were for a time the tallest buildings in Scotland.
The towers were prominent in the Glasgow city skyline, as seen here from Duke Street railway station.
The Bluevale tower during its deconstruction using the top-down method
Housing in Glasgow
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Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland, has several distinct styles of residential buildings. Building styles reflect historical trends, such as rapid population growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, deindustrialisation and growing poverty in the late 20th century, and civic rebound in the 21st century.
A typical Glasgow tenement block
The now demolished Red Road estate came to symbolise the mistakes of the city's 1960s housing policy.