The People’s Palace & Winter Gardens

We are currently supporting the redevelopment of Glasgow’s People’s Palace and Winter Garden, bringing specialist expertise in environmental design, building services and lighting to one of the city’s most significant cultural landmarks.

Our approach responds to the unique challenges of this historic building: balancing the conservation of its architectural character with the environmental performance, resilience and flexibility expected of a modern cultural destination.

For the People’s Palace, our work focuses on creating carefully controlled environments that support the conservation and display of the museum collection while providing a comfortable and engaging experience for visitors. Building services and lighting strategies are being developed to integrate sensitively with the historic fabric, minimising visual impact while delivering contemporary levels of performance.

The Winter Garden presents a very different environmental challenge. This space requires detailed environmental modelling and building physics, with complex computational modelling. As part of this work, we are exploring a passive-first approach that works with the building’s distinctive glazed form and Glasgow’s climate. Natural ventilation, solar response and carefully targeted mechanical interventions are being considered together to create an interior experience that is commensurate and neighbourly with the external climate and historic intent of civic Winter Garden purpose.

Across the project, our ambition is to demonstrate how thoughtful environmental engineering can help protect heritage, improve visitor experience, act as a learning place for environment and give an important Glasgow landmark a bright future.

Work continues on this exciting development.