Projects
Lead Partner: Wasps Studios
Other Partners: The Wasps Trusts & Wasps Creative Industries CIC
Project Team: Architects: Nord Project Manager: Gardiner & Theobald Quantity Surveyor: Brown & Wallace Structural Engineer: Dewar Associates Mechanical & Electrical Engineer: Ramboll UK
Website: www.waspsstudios.org.uk
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Location:
Glasgow City Centre, Merchant City
Description:
Wasps Studios has redeveloped King Street South Block, a 4 storey, 53,000 sq ft Edwardian Building in the heart of the Merchant City into a cultural and creative industries hub.
Wasps agreed an 80 year lease with Glasgow City Council to retain the building and radically upgrade the site. They have increased the number of artists' studios and redevloped the remaining space into office accommodation for cutural and social enterprises and new and established creative industries. Specifically, the building offers:
Rents start from as little as £300 per month for office space for creative businesses (exclusive of service charge) and charities and social enterprises (inclusive of service charge).
The money raised by renting space to commercial businesses is used by Wasps to reduce the rents for artists and social enterprises to around half the market rate.
Once the building is fully let it will provide space for around 200 people.
Current status:
Complete.
Timescale:
Jan 2011 - Jan 2012
Cost:
£3.5m