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Bluevale and Whitevale Towers
The Bluevale and Whitevale Towers is the name for a development of twin tower block flats situated in the Camlachie district within the East End of Glasgow, Scotland. Officially known as 109 Bluevale Street and 51 Whitevale Street, (often nicknamed the Gallowgate Twins or the Camlachie Twin Towers) the two towers stand as the tallest building in Scotland,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Britains Tallest 100 Buildings by Height. )〕〔http://skyscraperpage.com/diagrams/?searchID=50166628&page=1〕 although with only 29 occupiable floors (the 30th floor is a mechanical floor for building services and a drying area), they are not the buildings with the highest occupied floor level in the city (or Scotland) - this distinction belongs to the contemporary Red Road estate on the north side of the city. They became Scotlands second tallest freestanding structure in Scotland following the demolition of Inverkip Power Station on the Firth of Clyde in 2013.
==History==
Faced with crippling housing shortages in the immediate post-war period, the city undertook the building of multi-storey housing in tower blocks in the 1960s and early 1970s on a grand scale, which led to Glasgow becoming the first truly high-rise city in Britain. However, many of these "schemes", as they are known, were poorly planned, or badly designed and cheaply constructed, which led to many of the blocks becoming insanitary magnets for crime and deprivation. It would not be until 1988 that high rises were built in the city once again, with the construction of the 17-storey Forum Hotel next to the SECC. The 20-storey Hilton Hotel in Anderston followed in 1992. From the early 1990s, Glasgow City Council and its successor, the Glasgow Housing Association, have run a programme of demolishing the worst of the residential tower blocks, including Basil Spence's Gorbals blocks in 1993.
The buildings are also unique in their construction - featuring hydraulic jacks in their foundations to combat sway due to their height.
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