Hutchesontown C, Gorbals was a social housing estate in Glasgow that was formally approved in 1957 and completed in 1962. It was built as a way of disposing notorious slum areas of the Gorbals while creating a new ‘modern’ showpiece inner-city housing estate. It was a new modernist design that people of Glasgow loved and the Queen herself came to inaugurate it. Later though due to lack of maintenance and insufficient care, the tower block started to create problems for residents. Also, the Council who was responsible for maintaining the tower block, couldn’t manage it anymore and the decision was taken to demolish the tower block in 1993. Post-Demolition there were many concerns of why the tower blocks were demolished since they created a huge sustainable impact and displaced many people. But these discussions still remain to date, whether or not the demolition of Hutchesontown C was for the good or not.













