George Square Cafe
The new cafe proposed for Glasgow’s principal civic space was a competition run by Glasgow City Council. The proposal draws from Victorian civic language of plinth planter and fountain reconfirguring this into a building form. It was also an opportunity to introduce elements of Scottish landscape through the use of waterfalls, granite and heather into an urban context. A single storey volume is wrapped by a glass skin allowing for ‘waterfalls’ to intermittently cascade down the facade. A granite terrain rises to create serving counters and external seating. The building is capped with a heather roof providing flowering colour at different times of the year.
