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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, one of the 2 campuses the university operates from. The building was named after David Livingstone. The address of the building is 26 Richmond Street, Glasgow. The building is a notable landmark in the eastern side of the city centre, and its high position on the drumlin of Rottenrow means it can be seen from some considerable distance throughout the city's East End - surpassed in height only by the Gallowgate Twins a mile to the east. It was also among the earliest high-rise commercial buildings to go up in the city centre in the post-war period, pre-dated only by St Andrew's House (1964), Fleming House (1961), and the Royal Stuart Hotel (1963)—the latter having been owned by Strathclyde University in the 1980s and early 1990s as a student hall of residence. == Construction & History == The Livingstone Tower was constructed between 1962 and 1964 as Alec House - a commercial office building in a partnership between Glasgow Corporation, the former Royal College of Science and Technology and a commercial development company.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The McCance Building and Livingstone Tower )〕 The site was formerly occupied by a row of tenement houses, but these were cleared 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 of reinforced concrete construction, and was state of the art in its construction methods at the time - being clad with a curtain wall in opaque dark green glass spandrel panels framed by orange metal uprights. With its original commercial use in mind it featured an advanced elevator system for its day - four Otis ''Autotronic'' gearless lifts (also used in St. Andrew House on Sauchiehall Street) which were capable of responding to the traffic flow within the building at specific times of the day. 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 tower sits atop a 3 storey concrete podium shared with the neighbouring McCance Building, an NCP car park, and a row of retail units at street level on George Street. There is also private car parking for Glasgow City Council. There was also a raised empty concrete podium between the tower and the McCance Building upon which the University would later add the Collins Building in 1973. In 1965, one year after the creation of the University of Strathclyde, the building had still not attracted any private tenants. The adjacent McCance Building which was being built at the same time to house the University's library, arts and social studies departments. The two buildings ultimately became part of a plan to expand the University by adding more buildings and learning space, and so it was decided the building would be leased to the University. This lease was set to last 100 years and is due to end in 2064. The University dropped the original ''Alec House'' name and renamed the building after David Livingstone who studied at the Anderson's medical school between 1836 and 1839. At the time the building was used to expand the departments that were to be included in the McCance building. Since then it has grown and is now home to five of the university's departments. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Livingstone Tower」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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