Building Design Partnership (BDP), Richard Horden and Buro Happold designed the Glasgow Science Center museum. Opening in 2001, it cost £75 million.
The 127m tall (416 ft) Glasgow Tower has been called a white elephant because of its excessive cost and frequent mechanical failures that delayed its opening. Visitors were trapped in the lifts and the public worried that it could tip over catastrophically. Yet it remains, as Scotland’s tallest building and the only large building in the world that entirely rotates all the way around (or at least it used to).
The other two structures in the campus also have a metal and glass design, curled reflective shapes. Surrounding water features accentuate the futuristic aesthetic. The IMAX Cinema seats 370 people, and the titanium-clad Science Mall projects photographs of the night sky onto the inside of a 15m dome.
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