222 Clyde Street
385mm x 305mm
Biro on collage of recycled envelopes
£416.00
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The Scottish Typographical Association (STA), the craft union, built Typographical House on the site of their previous Glasgow offices between 1961-65. This medium sized office building was sited on the north bank of the River Clyde. The building was designed by Glasgow architecture firm Rogerson and Spence.
The building had clear modernist influences of the horizontal banding racing around the elevations. The glazing turns the corner of the building revealing that the structural frame of the building was held within the walls, which was responsible for the loading rather than the walls.
A variety of precast concrete panels were used for the external skins, the vertical circulation (staircase) was celebrated with the full height glazing at the front, and a classic 1970s font signage on the front (south) elevation onto Clyde Street dates the building to the early 1970s.
The flat roof had a parapet and a small plant room/access structure at the front, this form was a simple box, but had a flying swept roof form giving the south front elevation of the building a Corbusier influence. The entire building lay empty from 2007 except for the ground floor, which was home to Morrisons Bar which was shut due to flooding in 2011.
Typographical House was not a listed building so therefore it was also not on the Buildings at Risk Register.
The development of a Hilton Motto hotel franchise was given the green light by Glasgow City Council in 2018, however, despite raising Typographical House in 2022 not much progress has been made on the new building. The Directors of the development are the same Directors who developed the neighbouring site at 246 Clyde Street for the Virgin Hotel which went into liquidation and closed the week before Christmas in 2023.