Met Tower
The Met Tower is a prominent high rise building in Glasgow, Scotland, and was the main building of the former Glasgow Metropolitan College. It originally opened in 1964 as the Stow College of Building, and for most of its life has been known as the Glasgow College of Building and Printing.Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Building
- Description: academic (1964-2014), Office (2025-) in Glasgow, Scotland
- Also known as: “City of Glasgow College” and “North Hanover Street, Glasgow College Of Building And Printing”
- Address: 60 North Hanover Street, Glasgow, G1 2AD
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Glasgow Queen Street railway station and George Square.
Glasgow Queen Street railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Glasgow Queen Street is a passenger railway terminus serving the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is the smaller of the city's two main line terminals; the larger is Glasgow Central. Glasgow Queen Street railway station is situated 440 feet west of Met Tower.
George Square
Square
Photo: Archibald99, CC BY 3.0.
George Square is the principal civic square in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of six squares in the city centre, the others being Cathedral Square, St Andrew's Square, St Enoch Square, Royal Exchange Square, and Blythswood Square on Blythswood Hill. George Square is situated 560 feet southwest of Met Tower.
Glasgow Cenotaph
Photo: Kim Traynor, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow Cenotaph, also known as Glasgow War Memorial, is a war memorial which stands on the east side of George Square in Glasgow, in front of Glasgow City Chambers. Glasgow Cenotaph is situated 540 feet south of Met Tower.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glasgow and Merchant City.
Glasgow
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland on Clydeside in the Central Belt. Glasgow reinvented itself from the 1990s, one of the most successful examples in Britain, with a range of developments in industry, culture, cuisine and architecture.
Merchant City
Suburb
The Merchant City, a new name introduced through urban renewal by the Scottish Development Agency and the city council in the 1980s is one part of the metropolitan central area of Glasgow.
Townhead
Suburb
Photo: Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Townhead is a district within the city of Glasgow, Scotland. It is one of Glasgow's oldest areas, and contains two of its major surviving medieval landmarks – Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship.
Met Tower
- Category: university building
- Location: Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.86253° or 55° 51′ 45″ northLongitude
-4.24905° or 4° 14′ 57″ westInception
1964Levels
16Operator
Vita GroupOpen location code
9C7QVQ72+29OpenStreetMap ID
way 204797116OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesWikidata ID
Q122879020
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