Sunday Times: Dundas Wharf

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should be a good piece in Sunday Times tomorrow, by Geg Gordon. Property section. Look out for it

Would'nt be surprised if skyscraper gets a mention.

[maccoinnich]

Did it make it in? I can't find it.

While we're talking Sundays, the Sunday Herald has gone so far downhill it's almost unbelievable.

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I'm under three feet of snow at the moment so can't get out to check myself but I've emailed greg. He's done a pretty comprehensive article I know that and as far as I also know it's scheduled for today.

[outofchaosaworld]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

Did it make it in? I can't find it.

While we're talking Sundays, the Sunday Herald has gone so far downhill it's almost unbelievable.

The Sunday Herald has always been a bit of a rag, indeed we suffer from a quite pathetic press in this country sadly.

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sorry chaps , my mistake it's the 19th it's in. Apologies.

[maccoinnich]

Okay, same time next week then.

I used to like the Sunday Herald. I've read it since it launched. My dad swapped from the Scotland on Sunday immediately. Lately the Sunday Herald just seems kind of amateurish. They mess up on details with a frequency that would make the Guardian blush, ie today they wrote Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic college, as Sabhal Mor Oslang. According to my brother, they published week old football recently. They've stopped listing cinema, theatre and arts times for no apparent reason. Increasingly the paper just seems kind of - dare I say it - parochial. Plus I don't like the tabloid format.

I may not agree with the Sunday Times' editorial stance, but at least it's a quality read, and unlike some of the other London based papers, actually covers Scottish issues well.

[Chief]

Have to say I agree with you there maccoinnich... my family has subscribed to the sunday times for years, because there's no other Sunday paper out there that can touch it.

I don't like there editorial stance either, but when I tried to get my family to switch to the Observer, they hated it and we switched back a few weeks later. For breadth, and depth the sunday times is hard to beat. If only they weren't owned by Murdoch.

[The Boy David]

Have a look at the article on the International Space Station in todays Sunday Herald - it's been given centre-fold status, yet it's so amature it makes my eyes bleed.

Where did it all go wrong?

[maccoinnich]

I know, I've seen better graphics in the P&J.

Where did it all go wrong - might I suggest the sale to Newsquest? SMG may have a reputation for stripping Scottish and Grampian bare (which will soon no longer exist as separate entities anyway), but they did seem to treat the papers well. If rumours are to believed, Mark Douglas-Home's departure from the weekly Herald had more than a little something to do with unhappiness at the new owners.

[JBoy]

Originally Posted by maccoinnich

I know, I've seen better graphics in the P&J.

Where did it all go wrong - might I suggest the sale to Newsquest? SMG may have a reputation for stripping Scottish and Grampian bare (which will soon no longer exist as separate entities anyway), but they did seem to treat the papers well. If rumours are to believed, Mark Douglas-Home's departure from the weekly Herald had more than a little something to do with unhappiness at the new owners.

Sorry for digressing but ........

Lets hope Mark is not trying to play the oppressed hero in all of this. The herald circulation has dropped by 25% over the timeframe that MDH resided in the editors chair. He was given two huge chunks of marketing by newsquest in an attempt to turn things round and failed.

MDH and his editorial team turned off huge tracts of the once traditional herald reader.

[space_invader]

Andrew Jaspan bolting off to Melbourne seriously derailed the SH in my opinion.
And tabloid size and design is hideous.

it's just a very dull paper all round.

[maccoinnich]

Originally Posted by JBoy

The herald circulation has dropped by 25% over the timeframe that MDH resided in the editors chair.

There's hardly a quality paper whose circulation hasn't declined in the last five years.

[M_Riaz]

The ST article is here not much on the dundas wharf project though, just an overall prespective of the canal regeneration up and down the country.

True, the plans to revive the canal corridor through Glasgow, for instance, are so far notable not so much for the architecture as for the clever engineering of a new canal basin linking previously severed sections of the canal next to the M8 motorway. But at Trent Basin in Nottingham, things depart firmly from the norm. It’s still at the pre- planning stage, but Ryder and his team have been playing about with a more low-rise, but still high-density plan. Short rows of terraced houses start to make a reappearance, interspersed with office and leisure buildings. It’s the old dream of a place where you can live, work and play without having to travel miles between all three. I hope the concept survives and that they mix up a number of different architects to provide variety.

[gleegie]

Future Glasgow.

Sunday Times.


Amused that the NIMBY's don't even know how tall the tower is, unamused that Manc's tower looks superior. Why does Glasgow alway's get papped with RMJM?

What's the plaque folks are walking on?

[Socceroo]

Seems to be a lot of people mullling about doing nothing in that image, maybe Glasgow's going to have a population boom...

[gleegie]

Are those two holding hands?

[Boards]

Looks like it but thats all part of our trendy new image. That group of neds up by the trees on the hills about to give them a chibbing though.

[maccoinnich]

Yeah, I'd sure like to see the day when two guys can walk about holding hands anywhere in Scotland.

I was going to add a comment to the effect of if you draw the people, they will come. I might add they'll come as a utopian society as well.

[crusty_bint]

What's the plaque folks are walking on?

-(OCK)------ ---------
FAIRY ------
----- ------
CHARLOTTE ----- ??????

And if the Tradeston stretch of the Clyde can look like the French Riviera then I suppose it's not too out of the question for 2 gay guys to hold hands in public! Yeah, Im convinced!

[gleegie]

DOCK VILLAGE.....
FAIRY....
MAY....
GYM.....
CHARLOTTE DUNN ??????