1997
concert hall
Foster + Partners
Glasgow
Norman Foster
Random Building
1909 – Glasgow School of Art
1997 – SECC Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow
Architect: Foster + Partners
Designed by award-winning architect Sir Norman Foster under a very-tight budget and often called “the armadillo” by Glaswegians, this 3,000 seater building was completed in 1997. The Glasgow SECC takes a flat sheet material and employs it to clad a series of framed “˜hulls’, which wrap around the disparate elements, including the auditorium fly-tower. These overlapping, aluminium-clad shells – reflective by day and floodlit at night – create a distinctive profile on the skyline.
Published June 16, 2009 | Last Updated January 11, 2017