Consent given for Glasgow hotel

Architects Hawkins\Brown has secured planning consent for a 250-bed hotel in Glasgow city centre on behalf of Artisan Real Estate.

The hotel will be located on the corner of St Vincent Street and Pitt Street and will help convert the previously commercial office district into a thriving mixed-use quarter.

The public entrance of the four-star hotel will be contained within a two-storey plinth at lower- and upper-ground level, incorporating a public restaurant, bar and conferencing facilities.

The building’s design is said to respect the city’s grid pattern of urban blocks, with the structural mass stepped back from the street in order to respect the street views to the neighbouring Category B listed St Columba’s Church.

Glazed terracotta rainscreen cladding is proposed in three shades of green, set within an articulated limestone frame of double-height bays, making reference to the historic use of ceramics in Glasgow. The moulded terracotta panels work with the articulated limestone grid to create a play of light and shadow across the façade.

Charlotte Swanson, Regional Development manager at Artisan Real Estate said: “To reference the traditional use of ceramics in Glasgow and some of the tones that characterise this tradition, there will be a varied palette of double-height green/teal/turquoise profiled terracotta cladding, set within an articulated limestone frame, to give this new building a bold and distinctive character, but one rooted in the context of Glasgow.”

Peter McLaughlin, Head of Studio Scotland at Hawkins\Brown added: “The building achieves Glasgow City Council’s required Gold Standard for carbon reduction, with air source heat pumps providing low carbon space heating and heat generation for domestic hot water.”

Work is expected to start on site in autumn 2020, with the hotel’s opening anticipated in 2023.