Indeed: the Hutchestown "C" flats were built to replace the former tenements and the social problems which were associated with them. They were designed by Sir Basil Spence to a tower block design which is said to have originated in North Africa, although Spence said they were inspired by a Le Corbusier design in Marseille (other architects were responsible for the "A" and "B" developments.

North Africa and Marseille are, of course, predominantly warm and dry, qualities not normally associated with Glasgow (or nearby East Kilbride where I grew up). The flats developed mold, fungus and damp and were also notorious for funnelling high winds. The grand balconies, which originally were nicknamed the Hanging Gardens of the Gorbals, became unusable Almost all of the towers are now demolished (to howls of protests from the architect's admirers).

A number of local residents who considered that the social issues in the Gorbals arose more from poverty than building design,managed to save their original Victorian tenements from demolition and instead obtained funds for their complete refurbishment. The refurbished flats are now, of course, highly desirable in precisely the way that Spence's properties were not.