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The Savoy Centre:
Mid-1970s two floors of retail and an office tower. The building sits behind the elevation of the buildings on Sauchiehall Street buildings, and is entered through a wide passage which leads from Sauchiehall Street to an internal lobby with access to two floors of windowless retail space. This shopping area can also be accessed from Renfrew Street at ground floor level or via a pedestrian walkway from the northh side of Renfrew Street. This walkway bridges Renfrew Street and plugs into the main body of the Savoy Centre on the first floor level. Above the shopping area an office block rises up a further seven storeys. The building is in east to west section an inverted 'T' shape.
The Savoy centre is a striking brutalist example of a city centre concrete 1970s retail/office development. Composed of alternating horizontal bands of glazing and precast concrete panels the building is large and an uncompromising use of two hard blocks which fill the site and aesthetically stands apart from the architecture of its neighbours. The building is currently due to be re-developed and replaced by a proposed 30-storey tower and office accomodation.

street address: 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, G2 3DU
Latitude / Longitude: 55.865274,-4.257931 (sourced using Google Maps)

view east down Renfrew Street with the large concrete facade of the west elevation rising above the neighbouring buildings in the centre of the photograph. A large mobile phone tower is sited on the top right of the building.

view from across Renfrew Street at the north-west of the building

top right corner of the west elevation, above the bands of combed precast concrete and glazing the top floor has large rectangular openings revealing it is an open walled in rooftop floor

repetitive section of the west elevation showing the alternating concrete and glass banding

signage on Renfrew Street at the west end of the building

view east down Renfrew Street showing the two lower masses of the building and the cross street pedestrian bridge plugging into the second lower mass of the building

pedestrian bridge meeting the main building on the south side of Renfrew Street

North-east corner with the view down Hope Street to the left and to the right the view westwards up Renfrew Street

Hope Street facade

signage on Renfrew Street at the west end of the building

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