This list of tallest buildings in Glasgow includes built and planned high-rise buildings in Glasgow, Scotland. The current tallest structure in Glasgow at 127 metres (417 ft), is the Glasgow Tower within the Glasgow Science Centre, however as this is an observation tower – not strictly speaking a building, then the 26-storey Balgrayhill tower blocks in Springburn area claim the title. The tallest building ever to have stood in Glasgow was the 91.44 m Tait Tower in Bellahouston, built for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, but pulled down the following year. Faced with crippling housing shortages and overcrowding in the immediate post-war period, the city undertook the building of multi-storey housing in tower blocks in the 1960s and early 1970s on a grand scale, which led to Glasgow becoming the first truly high-rise city in Britain. However, many of these schemes were poorly planned and cheaply constructed, which led to many of the blocks becoming unsanitary magnets for crime and deprivation. It would not be until 1988 that high rises were built in the city once again, with the construction of the 17-storey Forum Hotel (latterly the Moat House International Hotel, and now the Crowne Plaza Hotel) next to the SECC. The 20-storey Hilton Hotel in Anderston followed in 1992. From the early 1990s, Glasgow City Council and its successor, the Glasgow Housing Association, have run a programme of demolishing the worst of the residential tower blocks, including Basil Spence's Gorbals blocks in 1993. Since the late 1990s, property developers have been planning new upmarket residential and office high-rises along the River Clyde, and in the city's financial district, which would far surpass these in height. (en)
This list of tallest buildings in Glasgow includes built and planned high-rise buildings in Glasgow, Scotland. The current tallest structure in Glasgow at 127 metres (417 ft), is the Glasgow Tower within the Glasgow Science Centre, however as this is an observation tower – not strictly speaking a building, then the 26-storey Balgrayhill tower blocks in Springburn area claim the title. The tallest building ever to have stood in Glasgow was the 91.44 m Tait Tower in Bellahouston, built for the Empire Exhibition of 1938, but pulled down the following year. (en)