| Red Road Flats | |
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_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1224863.jpg) The Eight Red Road Towerblocks in March 2009. All demolished by 2015. | |
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| General information | |
| Status | Demolished (between June 2012 – October 2015) |
| Type | Residential |
| Architectural style | Brutalist / Modernist |
| Location | Balornock, Glasgow, Scotland |
| Address | Tower 1: 10 Red Road Court Tower 2: 33 Petershill Drive Tower 3: 63 Petershill Drive Tower 4: 93 Petershill Drive Tower 5: 123 Petershill Drive Tower 6: 10–30 Petershill Court Tower 7: 153–213 Petershill Drive Tower 8: 21 Birnie Court |
| Coordinates | 55°52′48.54″N 4°12′29.57″W / 55.8801500°N 4.2082139°W |
| Construction started | 1964 |
| Completed | 1966 |
| Opening | 1968 |
| Demolished | June 2012 – October 2015 |
| Cost | £6 million (estimated) |
| Owner | Glasgow Housing Association |
| Height | |
| Roof | Point Blocks=89.0 metres (292 ft) Slab Blocks=79.0 metres (259 ft) |
| Top floor | 31 |
| Technical details | |
| Structural system | Steel frame |
| Floor count | Point Blocks = 31 Slab Blocks = 28 |
| Lifts/elevators | Point Blocks = 2 Slab Blocks = 6 |
| Design and construction | |
| Architect(s) | Sam Bunton & Associates |
| Developer | Glasgow Corporation |
| Structural engineer | W A Fairhurst & Partners |
The Red Road Flats were a mid-twentieth-century high-rise housing complex located between the districts of Balornock and Barmulloch in the northeast of the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The estate originally consisted of eight multi-storey blocks of steel frame construction. All were demolished by 2015. Two were "slabs", much wider in cross-section than they are deep. Six were "points", more of a traditional tower block shape. The slabs had 28 floors (26 occupiable and 2 mechanical), the point blocks 31 (30 occupiable and 1 mechanical), and taken together, they were designed for a population of 4,700 people. The point blocks were among the tallest buildings in Glasgow at 89 metres (292 ft), second in overall height behind the former Bluevale and Whitevale Towers in Camlachie, but still held the record for being the tallest inhabitable buildings and the highest floor count of any building constructed in the city.
Views from the upper floors drew the eye along the Campsie Fells to Ben Lomond and the Arrochar Alps, then west past the Erskine Bridge and out to Goat Fell on the Isle of Arran continuing south over Glasgow and East towards Edinburgh. On a clear day, the buildings were visible on the Glasgow skyline from up to 10 miles (16 kilometres) away. The 31st floor of the point blocks and the corresponding 28th floor of the slabs were reserved as a communal drying area.
Among the best-known of Glasgow's highrise housing developments of the 1960s, the buildings were formally condemned in July 2008 after a long period of decline, with their phased demolition taking place in three stages between 2010 and 2015.