This blog is viewed by a number of former Dundee residents who now live overseas so I thought I would post these pictures for their interest. The first picture was taken in City Square and shows Tayside House covered in scaffolding and about to disappear behind the Caird Hall. Tayside House was the headquarters of the old Tayside Regional Council and had been used since the mid-1990s by Dundee City Council. The building was never popular and it was once voted Dundee's least liked building. It is being demolished to make way for the £1 billion redevelopment of the waterfront.
The second photograph is of the space that used to be occupied by The Podium Block which was regarded as the little brother of Tayside House. It has already been demolished and the ground is being used as a compound for the Tayside House demolition works.
The Podium Block held many memories for me because the Conservative Group on Dundee City Council had an office there for fourteen years. I served as a co-opted member of Tayside Regional Council for its last few months and attended meetings in The Podium when it operated as the chambers for the council.
Readers will observe that the ‘gazebo’ at the front of the City Square has also been removed as part of a wider refurbishment of the City Square.
