The seven-second video shows the flagship development of 321 self-contained studio apartments spectacularly rising out of the ground – a high-speed combination of hundreds of drone images taken daily since the start of construction in November 2024.

The £38 million development, which is on schedule for completion in summer 2026, will provide purpose-built studio apartments over 16 floors, together with a range of additional facilities and amenities. This includes a dedicated reception area, study rooms and communal meeting spaces together with a gym, cinema room, roof-top private dining, private roof terraces and dedicated internal cycle storage for 160 bikes.

St Vincent Studios is a joint venture bringing together regeneration specialist Artisan Real Estate with equity investor Housing Growth Partnership. The development, which is being delivered by building contractor GRAHAM, will be operated by Homes for Students.
 
“It’s very exciting to witness this eye-catching development rising out of the ground in the heart of Glasgow’s city centre,” says Artisan’s development director for Scotland, David Westwater. 

“The site is in a superb city centre location and meets the urgent need for high-quality student accommodation in the city, especially for individual studio apartments.

“The more longer-term student market we are targeting will bring energy and investment to the city centre and ensure the deliverability of a superbly designed development to replace an existing office block which had remained vacant for many years.”
 
Colin Bennett, investment director at Housing Growth Partnership, added: “This is our second joint venture with Artisan Real Estate and underlines our confidence in the purpose-built student accommodation sector at a time when economic and planning constraints are impacting new developments coming forward.”

Martin Corbett, chief executive officer of Homes for Students, said: “We are proud to be working closely with Artisan Real Estate to ensure this will be a best-in-class, purpose-built scheme.

“We will be creating high quality accommodation and amenities for students to enjoy, providing an exceptional user experience using the skills of our property team to foster and support student wellbeing whilst closely integrating with the local community.”