Likely the problem.

I used to have a browse on the site when I remembered.

Covid and work from home will have fucked that too.

I’d certainly not claim to be a ‘proper’ designer as everything I’ve done has been self-taught, but can happily meddle in the Adobe Creative suite to produce something that looks alright and have worked in roles where I’ve been the one responsible for corporate publications and general printing.

Anyhoo, it means I’ve got an interest in design so subscribed to Creative Review for a bit as it’s always interesting to see what’s going on across their pages - stopped it when they jacked the price up considerably once they’d decided they could do so as they’d made all their old back catalogue available online as a part of the cost.

Just looked again now, and it’s £280 a year for access which includes the physical copy of four print issues a year (including the Annual Awards issue)…£200 for digital only - not entirely sure where I’m going with this other than not being surprised some have struggled.

Get yer kilts on fellas! There's apparently going to be dancing in the streets!

hahaha

The team who did this aren’t really bothered about details. They’re more academics than actual architects who deliver projects. So treat this as a ‘vision statement’ the City Council probably paid them to draw up, rather than something that will actually happen.

The dearth of ambition is pretty fucking depressing though. Imagine the meetings presenting that.

“Right lads. We commissioned you for some blue-sky thinking. Take one of Glasgow’s most well-kent landmarks and wow us with your vision for it in the future.”

“Okay. Hold on to your sporrans. This is great. What we propose you should do is … get ready, it’ll blow your minds … you should paint the shop fronts in some nice colours!.”

“Okay. I’m with you. What else?”

“Erm … maybe put up some of those coloured LED lights?”

“Hmmm. And what will this do for the people of Glasgow? How will it turn around the fortunes of this busy, central meeting point that’s gotten a bit run down and gives our city a bad name?”

“It’ll make them want to jump into the road and start dancing!”

“You do know this is a busy taxi route, yes?”

Main thing is you dont lose such culturally iconic shops as "King of Bling"

Yeah, the clues are there.
Takeaways, taxi pick ups, station. Gonna guess at least 3 nights a week its full of drunk people, not dancing but dropping shit everywhere.
Id say unless you are going to build something else then embrace that. Lots of bins, set aside a couple of units to convert into public toilets, booth things, you know the type that prevent them becoming places to shoot up.

That presentation looks like either high end or indie, crafty type retailers but they wont setup somewhere where they have to step over puddles of piss every morning. There are also better units nearby just looking around a bit but its the same old high street drudgery occupying them.