Livingstone Tower

The Livingstone Tower is a prominent high rise building in Glasgow, Scotland and is a part of the University of Strathclyde's John Anderson Campus.

[1] The site was formerly occupied by a row of houses and a church, but these were cleared in 1960 after Townhead was declared a Comprehensive Development Area (CDA) in the 1950s.

As part of this development – inspired by the findings of the 1945 Bruce Report, central areas of the city were re-zoned for commercial or educational use.

The building is electrically heated and was also intended to feature a restaurant on the ground floor which the University later turned into a student refectory.

The adjacent McCance Building which was built at the same time to house the expanding Andersonian Library, as well as the Royal College's new arts and social sciences departments.

A security services building was added on the north side, which now contained the main entrance to the tower from 26 Richmond Street.

In 2011 they relocated to the 199 Cathedral Street building, being replaced with the Strathclyde Business School Centre for Corporate Connections department.

A revised plan was released in 2011 which showed that the tower would remain in use until the year 2023, after which the building would be returned to Glasgow City Council for future redevelopment.

The base of the tower along George Street shows the larger development it forms part of. The McCance and Collins Buildings are to the rear of the picture