The Buchanan Galleries facade on Buchanan Street

The sloping interior of one of the Buchanan Galleries' malls

The Buchanan Galleries is a shopping mall located in the central area of Glasgow, the largest city in Scotland. Construction began in 1996 and the building opened to the public on 31st March 1999. Costing £250 million, it is one of the largest city centre shopping developments in the United Kingdom, boasting an internal retail space of nearly 56,000 m². Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 809 KB) The exterior of the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 809 KB) The exterior of the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre on Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 891 KB) The interior of the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre in Glasgow, Scotland Source: Taken by Finlay McWalter on Saturday 23rd July 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: Buchanan Galleries Wikipedia:List of images/Places/Europe... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2288x1712, 891 KB) The interior of the Buchanan Galleries shopping centre in Glasgow, Scotland Source: Taken by Finlay McWalter on Saturday 23rd July 2004 File links The following pages link to this file: Buchanan Galleries Wikipedia:List of images/Places/Europe... McArthur Glen Designer Outlet, Swindon, England, a shopping mall built within a disused railway engine works. ... Glaswegian redirects here. ... Motto (Latin) No one provokes me with impunity Cha togar mfhearg gun dioladh (Scottish Gaelic)1 Wha daur meddle wi me?(Scots)1 Anthem (Multiple unofficial anthems) Scotlands location in Europe Capital Edinburgh Largest city Glasgow Official languages English, Gaelic Government Constitutional monarchy  -  Queen Queen Elizabeth II  -  Prime... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... March 31 is the 90th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (91st in Leap years). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ...

Located on the junction between the famous Glaswegian shopping streets of Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street, this huge mall adjoins onto the side of the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. Before the mall was built, the northern end of Buchanan Street was very run down, and was full of derelict buildings (the site was once the home to the Glasgow branch of the NAAFI), and half abandoned stores. The sheer size of the building posed a number of problems. Firstly, the car park element of the mall had to traverse the railway tracks leading from the adjacent Glasgow Queen Street station, plus the mall section itself had to be built over Cathedral Street. Buchanan Street looking southward. ... Sauchiehall Street is one of the main shopping/business streets in Glasgow city centre. ... The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall is a music auditorium in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. ... The NAAFI (Navy, Army and Air Force Institutes) (pronounced NAFF-ee) is a non-profit retaining organization created by the British government in 1921 to run recreational establishments needed by the Armed Forces, and to sell goods to servicemen and their families. ... Queen Street Station is a railway station in Glasgow, Scotland and is Glasgows second main line terminus. ...

The mall houses 80 shops, the largest of which belongs to the John Lewis Partnership, incorporates a 10-storey car park with 2000 spaces, 22 elevators, and 19 escalators. The building has a design life of 100 years. One of John Lewis flagship branches in Glasgows Buchanan Galleries mall The John Lewis Partnership is a major United Kingdom retailer, operating department stores and, through its Waitrose subsidiary, upmarket supermarkets. ... Parking lot is the American English term that refers to a cleared area that is more or less level and is intended for parking vehicles. ... A set of lifts in the lower level of a London Underground station. ... Escalators at Canary Wharf, London. ...

The joint owners (Land Securities and Henderson Global Investors) plan to double the centre in size, by demolishing the current car park and building on that site. A replacement car park will be put in place on top of the Buchanan bus station which will itself be redeveloped. An outline planning application was submitted in April 2007 to Glasgow City Council and construction could begin as early as 2008. Land Securities Group plc is a leading British property development and investment company headquartered in central London. ... Buchanan Bus Station is the main bus terminus in Glasgow for journeys between the city and other towns in Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. ... The City of Glasgow is one of the 32 Scottish unitary authorities and came into being in 1995. ... 2008 (MMVIII) will be a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

List of Stores

• Accessorize
• Advanced MP3
• Alexi Andriotti
• Boots Group
• Burger King
• Carphone Warehouse
• Envy (retailer)
• Freespirit
• GAME
• Gap
• Greaves Sports Nike Store
• H&M
• Jane Norman
• John Lewis
• La Senza
• Levi's
• Mango
• Mikey
• Miss Selfridge
• Morgan
• Next
• O2
• Oasis
• O'Neill
• Qube
• Quiksilver
• River Island
• Sainsbury's
• Thorntons
• Vision Express
• Wallis
• Whisky Shop

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See also

• Buchanan Street

Buchanan Street looking southward. ...

External links

• Buchanan Galleries official site
• John Lewis Partnership