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

The huge skyscraper was mooted in the early 2000s, but swiftly rejected by council chiefs.

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

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. The concept was dreamt up to tackle the housing crisis in Britain's cities, offering affordable housing fit for the 21st century, with individual apartments tipped to be offered for as little as £70,000.

At 30 to 50 stories tall, the development was on the scale of the kind of buildings you would see in downtown Manhattan and would have dominated Glasgow's historic heart as the tallest building in all of Scotland.

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