Snapshot: tower block, Glasgow

A direct hit to the part of my nerdy heart that loves old sixties tower blocks. Presumably part of either the Western Infirmary or the University of Glasgow, seen from the steps of the Glasgow Museum of Transport.

Having spent much of the last seven years in a twenty storey steel and glass tower block with completely orthogonal façades that are the same regardless of the orientation, I’m intrigued by the pattern of windows to cladding here, and what appears to be the half landings of a stairwell in the middle of the main block.

Snapshot: Glasgow tower block fire

I believe (because there aren’t that many fifteenth floor tower block fires) that this is the aftermath of a fire in Townhead last week. BBC News report here. Photograph from a recent Flickr set entitled A rooftop flâneur in Glasgow, August 2008.