Glasgow City Council is planning to give 25 kilometres of city centre road space to pedestrians and cyclists as part of pandemic physical distancing measures.
A lane of parking spaces on St Vincent Place in Glasgow City Centre is being transformed with wooden decking and seating as part of the Spaces for People project
A mural featuring indigenous people has been completed in Glasgow's Merchant City, as part of a collaboration for the COP26 climate change conference. It replaces an artwork created for the 2014 Commonwealth Games. More at
Work to restore this building in Argyle Street, funded by Glasgow City Heritage Trust, has been completed. As well as the Grant Arms pub, the B-listed premises house the Scottish Transport Credit Union.
St Thenue, mother of Glasgow's patron saint St Mungo, is depicted in this new mural on Abercromby Street in the city's East End. The work is by artist Mark Worst and was commissioned by Thenue Housing Association
The return of Bridgeton Cross Clock Tower has been celebrated after £400,000 restoration work was carried out on the category A-listed, Victorian-era bandstand.
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The 99-metre moving span for the new Govan-Partick Bridge active travel Clyde crossing has been lifted into place. The pedestrian/cycle swing bridge is being built between Water Row in Govan and Pointhouse Quay in Partick and is due to open next year.
A £2.8million plan to safeguard Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Scotland Street School masterpiece includes locating a pre-five facility in the much-loved building
The construction phase of a £13.7million landmark active travel bridge across the Forth and Clyde Canal in north Glasgow has concluded. The Stockingfield crossing is on track to open in September once further work is completed.
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The public realm and landscaping at the University of Glasgow’s new Western Campus has won a gold award in this year's Scottish Design Awards. The campus is on the site of the former Western Infirmary.
The main span of the new Govan-Partick pedestrian/cycle bridge today arrived at Yorkhill Quay, close where it will be installed, between Water Row and Pointhouse Quay. It's hoped the span will be lifted into place on Tuesday, weather permitting.
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The Alexander Elder Memorial Chapel, also known as the Western Infirmary Chapel, hidden for many decades, is now visible on Church Street following demolition of buildings in front of it as work continues on University of Glasgow's new campus
The retention of a Victorian warehouse facade at the massive Candleriggs Quarter development can be viewed now that scaffolding has been removed. The B-listed building on Trongate dated from 1875. The facade has been absorbed into the rental flats element of the project.
This development of 540 flats transformed a large area of Anderston and was completed in August 2018. Notably it restored for pedestrians and cyclists a section of Argyle Street lost in the 1960s.
The 15-metre fixed section of the new Govan-Partick pedestrian/cycle swing bridge has been installed on the north side of the Clyde beside the Riverside Museum. The bridge is due to open later this year.
A massive office block nearing completion in Glasgow City Centre has reportedly been sold for more than £200million. The building at 177 Bothwell Street features a rooftop running track. More at
Spick and span: new paintwork on the bridge at Glasgow Central Station looking good in the September sun, after major renovation over the past couple of years. (The 'before' view is from February 2019. The skyline has been changed by flats under construction at Buchanan Wharf)
The final vacant food/drink unit at the revamped former Botanic Gardens Garage in Glasgow's West End is to be occupied by seafood restaurant Crabshakk.
Images showing how the St Enoch Centre site could be transformed over the next 15 years are included in a planning application lodged with Glasgow City Council.
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Proposals have been drawn up to breathe new life into a a major Merchant City landmark including creating a restaurant, coffee bar, gallery and rooftop pavilion.
A revised flats conversion plan is being proposed for a B-listed Glasgow City Centre building once assessed by structural engineers as “incapable of repair".
The first operational closing of the new Renfrew Bridge across the River Clyde has taken place, bringing it a step closer to opening to the public.
The bridge -- the first opening road bridge over the Clyde -- will connect Renfrew and Clydebank and Yoker.
The huge Buchanan Wharf office and residential development beside the Clyde at Tradeston in Glasgow has been completed (includes a view from 2018 before work began). More photos at
A wide-ranging physical distancing plan for Glasgow City Centre has been approved including cutting on-street parking spaces by a third and bringing forward George Square pedestrianisation.
The £29.5milllion Govan/Partick active travel bridge will open to the public from mid-morning on Saturday 7 September, following an official ceremony on Friday 6 September
A zig-zag active travel path has opened linking the Forth and Clyde Canal and Garscube Road. It helps form a crossroads with the canal towpath and the bridge into Claypits nature reserve which itself has paths to nearby communities. More at
Work progressing on the landmark active travel bridge at Stockingfield Junction on the Forth and Clyde Canal, which will provide the last link in the towpath, and connect north west Glasgow communities Maryhill, Gilshochill and Ruchill. More at
A massive rental flat and student accommodation development – including a landmark 28-floor apartment building – has been given the go-ahead by Glasgow City Council.
Timber planters installed on streets in the Merchant City last year under the Spaces for People initiative have this week been replaced with more robust concrete planters and benches. These are on Candleriggs.
Work is nearing completion on the massive residential development on the Meat Market site between Dennistoun and Calton, at the corner of Bellgrove Street and Duke Street.
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New public realm has been completed at the transformed quayside at the Buchanan Wharf development, Tradeston, home to the Barclays campus. The landscaping and cycle path have been created out of what was Clyde Place, a four-lane road. More at
The scaffolding has come off following the first stage of improvements to the B-listed Beco building as part of the new Barclays campus at Tradeston (‘before’ view from 2018 included). More at
Work by Scottish Canals at Firhill Basin, Glasgow includes this boardwalk which will be accessed from Panmure Gate, linking to a new path through Claypits Nature Reserve, with a bridge currently being built at Garscube also part of the route
Queen's Park Football Club have drawn up plans to turn the Lesser Hampden training grounds into a league-standard stadium with seating for more than 1,700
Glasgow city centre's population has risen by a third, to 28,300, in just over a decade, new figures show.
The council target is 40,000 by 2035, boosted by new developments such as Candleriggs Square where nearly 350 rental apartments have been built.
The UK's first The Social Hub has opened at Candleriggs Square, Glasgow. The £90million hotel complex, with co-working space, has 494 rooms making it Scotland’s largest hotel by room numbers. Nearing completion at the site are 346 flats for rent.
The new pedestrian bridge over Glasgow's Canal at Garscube, which Scottish Canals expect will open this month, connecting the Garscube Road side with Claypits Nature Reserve on the Hamiltonhill side. More photos at
Scotland's historic building watchdog has lodged a strongly-worded statement formally objected to plans to completely demolish the fire-ravaged O2 ABC music venue in Glasgow.
Work continuing on an office development incorporating an A-listed 19th century warehouse facade at James Watt Street in Glasgow's International Financial Services District
Work is continuing on transforming North Canal Bank Street and Mid Wharf Street at Port Dundas, including giving more space for walking and cycling, connecting with major developments at Dundashill and nearby Sighthill.
Urban design colleagues of a young woman who was killed in a cycling crash have started a campaign to make several Glasgow City Centre traffic junctions safer.
The historic Linen Bank building is now on its own at High Street after demolition of the Old College Bar and adjacent premises following a fire in May. It could soon be joined however by a major residential development, as shown, if agreed by planners
A ten-year plan is being launched to make Glasgow’s neighbourhoods ‘safe, pleasant, attractive’ people-friendly environments designed for ‘playing, walking and cycling’.
A major active travel route linking Glasgow's Southside with the City Centre has been completed. The South City Way runs from Queen’s Park to Trongate, via Govanhill and the Gorbals
Consultation on tall buildings in Glasgow begins today (8 July) in response to the increasing number being built and planned, especially in the city centre. Public feedback is being sought until 30 September and will help to shape final design guidance.
Tradeston Transformation. The main buildings at the massive Buchanan Wharf development are largely complete apart from an office block that is to be occupied by the Student Loan Company.
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City planners say the design of a 13-storey, 142-bed hotel proposed for the SWG3 venue in Yorkhill is of 'outstanding quality'. City councillors will have the final say on the proposal.
Plans to turn Parkhead's massive empty Tesco into an Asian supermarket and food court are a step closer after approval for a new 'iconic entrance feature' were approved.