Now when she is not cruising at various locations around the UK she is berthed here. The TS Queen Mary was also built locally and launched in She carried passengers up the west coast of Scotland and is currently being converted into a museum ship. From here it is just a short walk across the bridge.
The Exhibition Centre Station is the closest railway station, and the route across the river is well signed. If you wish to stay in Glasgow try the Millennium Hotel Glasgow , with four stars and a fine restaurant. Hermaness National Nature Reserve. Hotels in Edinburgh - Booking. Hotels in Glasgow - Booking. Hotels in Orkney - Booking. Hotels in The Shetlands - Booking. Hotels in Scotland - Booking. Hotels in Edinburgh - Agoda. He says: "You had the potential prospect of ruining not just the tower, but also causing some pretty substantial damage to the science centre.
The ball-bearing problem continued to dog the tower throughout the decade, with numerous lengthy closures.
But one of the most dramatic incidents came during a rare period of operation in January Ten people, including four children, were trapped for five hours after a cable carrying their lift snapped and the emergency brakes were triggered. The group were stuck in the glass lift about ft up while fire crews worked out how to rescue them, eventually cutting through panels in the tower.
The tower has now been closed since August and the science centre recently announced it had settled a lengthy court action with the contractors. Science centre bosses said they had received "substantial" compensation but there seems to be very little prospect of the tower ever turning again. The original design was submitted by renowned architect Richard Horden for a competition in , which was looking for "big imaginative ideas" for a space at St Enoch Square in the city centre.
Instead of rotating in the breeze in the centre of Glasgow, the powers-that-be decided it would be the perfect design to go alongside the developments which were taking place on former docklands on the south of the river Clyde in Govan. Norman Foster's "Armadillo" extension to the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre was taking shape on the north bank of the river and Peter Wilson says the decision to build the tower was Glasgow "grandstanding as usual".
Prof Horden severed his links in when his firm were removed in a dispute over time and cost. He says it is "always sad to reflect on this project". Prof Horden adds it was "entirely possible for the initial design to have functioned successfully". But he says it failed because of poor management decisions, such as removing the original "first-class design team" and "doing it on the cheap".
John Glenday, editor of Scottish architecture website Urban Realm, believes the tower was "too ambitious" and it may have been a "legacy from the froth of the Millennium". The idea was that the tower would preserve its stability by turning into the prevailing wind on a huge bearing which carried its tonne vertical load.
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