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Car Park Design Incorporates Listed Art Nouveau FaçadeA strikingly modern Glasgow city centre car park, which incorporates and preserves the B-listed facade of an Art Nouveau warehouse by a contemporary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, opened.
Dutch-based Q-Park commissioned architects Keppie Design for the design of the new £4.5m St Enoch facility.
Lying close to the River Clyde, beside Glasgow's main retail centre and adjacent to the city's St Andrews Roman Catholic Cathedral, the six storey structure in Maxwell Street preserves the derelict 1908 façade by John Gibb-Morton.
The St Enoch building is the latest part of Q-Park's ongoing £16m investment in Glasgow and continues the company's aim of altering perceptions of the car park industry by providing architecturally interesting designs.
Keppie's commission from Q-Park followed on from a planning study undertaken by the practice on behalf of the Archdiocese of Glasgow.
Architects and Town Planners worked together to explore the best ways in which the value of the Church's site could be realised and by careful consideration of the listed building issues were able to achieve planning consent for car park use.
Q-Park took up the opportunity to develop the site, and was happy to retain Keppie as architect.
Alan Ashbee, Chief Executive of Q-Park UK Ltd, said: "This latest opening shows
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