Govan’s culture – community spirit & becoming shipshape again
The following text and images came out of research following regeneration efforts beginning within the community. My article commissioned by Urban Realm Magazine was published in issue 8 of the magazine in December 2011 Govan Shipshaped PDF It is also viewable in the publications section of this site. Glorious Govan… Resilient and exciting; it is rich […]
On the banks of The Clyde, The Riverside Museum.. A scottish triumph of architecture
The opening of Zaha Hadid’s Riverside Museum on the 21st June 2011, is another prime example of cultural regeneration aimed at breathing new life into vacant city sites. The shimmering mass of zinc, being a new home for the city’s transport collection, its design playfully symbolising Glasgow’s industrial and shipbuilding past.
