SEC Armadillo
Silver-shelled riverside auditorium of overlapping aluminium curves, seating up to three thousand.
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This guide to the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow asks why a building by Foster and Partners keeps being taken for something it is not, from its silver shells to the nickname the city gave it. It digs under the aluminium skin to the theatre box inside, and under your feet to the Victorian Queen's Dock, closed to ships in nineteen sixty-nine. Best heard from the riverside walkway, where the whole curved roofline is in view.
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