Tait Tower
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Tait Tower (also known as Tait's Tower and officially as the Tower of Empire) was a tower in the art deco style constructed at the summit of Ibrox Hill in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow in Scotland as part of the Empire Exhibition, Scotland 1938.
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The Empire Exhibition took place at a time when Glasgow was the centre of British shipbuilding and engineering, and the materials – steel beams riveted together and clad in corrugated steel – were produced by Glasgow manufacturing plants. Tait's design and readily available materials made it possible for the tower to be constructed in only nine weeks.[1]
The tower was dismantled in July 1939 after the exhibition closed.[2] The foundations remain at Bellahouston Park.
Thomas' son Gordon Tait also worked on the project.
In December 2007, the Tait Tower was included in a 3D graphic reconstruction of the Empire Exhibition by the Digital Design Studio at Glasgow School of Art, sourced from contemporary photographs, film footage, sketches and drawings from the archive of the Mitchell Library.[3][4]
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- Information about the tower and picture
- Information about the 1938 exhibition and the tower
- Tower of Empire - 3D reconstruction of the tower by Glasgow School of Art
- Photographs of the Tait Tower - Mitchell Library
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- Towers completed in 1938
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- World's fair architecture in Glasgow
- 1939 disestablishments in Scotland
- Buildings and structures demolished in 1939