Project Feature | Candleriggs Square, Stallan-Brand
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The Candleriggs Square project aims to reinstate the centre of Merchant City, transforming a major space that has been empty for three generations providing a vibrant and connected destination, attracting people, movement and interest throughout the day and night.
It has been designed as a place to ‘go to’: a reason to visit, meet, stay, live and relax, with a proposed mix of residential, hotel, local amenities, bars, restaurants, art installations and public spaces. It’s also a space to ‘go through’, providing permeable and accessible location, opening up a previously hostile and anti-social site.
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The urban design continues the existing Merchant City grain, creating streets, spaces and amenities making strong connections with established streets/areas like Brunswick Street, Candleriggs and Trongate.
Like much of the Merchant City, this is a place to live or put down roots, a defined area providing the permanency of residential accommodation, established businesses and attractive open spaces and amenities. It will also bring value and interest to the homes and businesses in the immediate surrounding area.
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The proposal develops a complex and complimentary architecture, inspired by the historic eighteenth and nineteenth century vernacular. Importantly the public spaces are also sensitive to the immediate surroundings, improving the amenity, spatial experience and connectivity of the area. Importantly the development will also be progressed incrementally helped by the porosity of the urban approach and appropriate scaling of the architecture.
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Paul Stallan on behalf of Stallan-Brand May 2021