Pacific Quay is a major urban regeneration scheme designed as Scotland’s media and technology-related district, near Glasgow’s City Centre. LUC was involved in the master planning, preparation of design guidance and landscape design implementation of various sites within Pacific Quay, starting with the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988.
LUC has played a central role in the creation of several civic spaces on the banks of the River Clyde, providing landscape design and landscape masterplanning services for Pacific Quay 1 and 2 (office buildings), the Scottish Media group HQ building (creating small squares in front of the Rotunda and the Four Winds Building), the Digital Media Quarter, and recent improvements to BBC Scotland and the Science Centre Public Realm.
Pacific Quay sets a high standard of design, detailing and materials that is essential in the creation of a new urban precinct. The selection of materials and products exploit and encourage transparency, sustainability, durability, historic integrity and local identity. This is evident at the Digital Media Quarter where the public realm supports a ‘pioneering’ character that relates both to the new land uses and the industrial heritage. The landscape elements are portable, reusable and flexible. While at Scottish Media Group Headquarters, the public realm embraces the presence of the heritage-listed rotunda building. The plaza design sensitively integrates the historic rotunda with the new offices while maintaining the symbolic link across the River Clyde to the Northern Rotunda.
Pacific Quay is an exciting project to be a part of as it will have a positive impact on Glasgow. Through its rebirth as Pacific Quay and the subsequent landmark buildings, such as the Glasgow Science Centre and BBC Scotland, the site is now of a high-profile, picture-postcard status and calibre. When complete, the ambitious scheme will form an integral and vibrant extension to Glasgow’s city centre.
