Queen Elizabeth Square flats, in The Gorbals, Glasgow - originally built in 1965 and now demolished.

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Hutchesontown C was the name given to a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) of an area of Hutchesontown, a district in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. Its centrepiece were two 20-storey slab blocks at 16-32 Queen Elizabeth Square, designed by Sir Basil Spence and containing 400 homes. Acclaimed by architects and modernists, the flats became riddled with damp and infestations, which could not be cured even with a major renovation in the late 1980s. They were demolished in 1993, killing a spectator in the process. Taken using a Soviet made Zenith TTL SLR camera.

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Size: 1624px × 1147px
Location: Queen Elizabeth Square, Gorbals, Glasgow, UK
Photo credit: © Chris McKee / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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