Hutchesontown C was a Comprehensive Development Area of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Its centrepiece were two Brutalist 20-storey slab blocks at 16-32 Queen E
Queen Elizabeth Flats before demolition 1
16-32 Queen Elizabeth Square, moments before demolition
Queen Elizabeth Flats in 1993
Demolition of 16-32 Queen Elizabeth Square
The Red Road Flats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate origin
Hutchesontown C
…Hutchesontown C before it was demolished. The buildings were viewed by contemporary critics (along with other flagship high rise estates in Glasgow such as Red Road) as monuments to the mistakes of the city's post-war housing renewal policy, and despite their demolition over 30 years ago they retain some notoriety…
The eight Red Road Towerblocks in March 2009
Flats seen in 1979 during the application of overcladding. Blocks 1 and 2 still showing their exposed asbestos cement board cladding
Graffiti around the flats (2004)
Demolition site at the Red Road flats