Clydebank's eco-friendly Queens Gate housing development at Cart Street has won the prestigious Saltire Society Award for its design.
Award-winning architects Elder & Cannon of Glasgow received
the award from Scotland's Culture Minister, Fiona Hyslop MSP at a
ceremony in Edinburgh.
This is the third top design award to go to the £5 million
Queen Gate development of 40 eco-friendly flats for Clydebank
Housing Association at the former John Brown's shipyard site.
In May, Queens Gate won the Scottish Design Award for affordable
housing and last November, the Glasgow Institute of Architects
Award.
The impressively curved 4-storey Queens Gate development on Cart
Street opposite the new Clydebank College was opened in September
2009.
All the one and two bed homes, with customised glazed balconies,
have been designed to a "very good" eco-rating, with high
insulation, energy efficient fittings and heating, low CO2
emissions, and waste recycling facilities. The
development also includes a charging port to power the housing
association's electric cars which can be hired by residents.
"We are delighted that Elder & Cannon have won this fantastic
award for our Queens Quay development", stated Fiona Webster, chief
executive of Clydebank Housing association.
"Feedback from tenants has been extremely positive and we expect
these energy efficient flats to be in great demand for decades to
come"
Clydebank Re-built, the town's urban regeneration company, managed
the project for Clydebank Housing Association. The builders
were CCG (Scotland) and funding came from the Scottish Government,
Clydebank Housing Association and its lender Clydesdale Bank,
Clydebank re-built and Scottish Water.
Eleanor McAllister, managing director of Clydebank Re-built:
"The Saltire Award together with the Scottish Design and Glasgow
Architects Awards put Clydebank on the map once again for its
design-led regeneration projects.
"Queens Gate is a landmark housing development and hopefully the
first of many on the Queens Quay. Residents at Queens Gate
are very positive about the development and their new homes.
It is a good example of how good design can improve lives"