Qualla: SEC Armadillo https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:16 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: SEC Armadillo https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo SEC Armadillo: Introduction https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo/ Glaswegians named it themselves. The architects at Foster and Partners had drawn the form as an interlocking series of ship hulls, a deliberate reference to the Clyde's shipbuilding heritage, and they were correct that nobody outside the practice would describe it that way. By the time construction finished in August 1997 the building was already, universally, the Armadillo. Forty metres tall, silver and segmented, hunched along the north bank of the Clyde, it looks unmistakably like the South American mammal of the same name. The official name was the Clyde Auditorium when it opened, and it is officially the SEC Armadillo today - one of three venues on the Scottish Event Campus. Nobody calls it anything except the Armadillo.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/sec-armadillo-wp/gcuv-sec-armadillo-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full SEC Armadillo: Foster on the Clyde https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo/ Plans for a new auditorium to expand the SECC complex were initiated in 1994. Foster and Partners - the London firm later responsible for the Gherkin, the Reichstag dome, and a great deal else - got the commission and broke ground in September 1995. Construction took just under t...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/sec-armadillo-wp/gcuv-sec-armadillo-foster-on-the-clyde.mp3 0:06 2 full SEC Armadillo: The Voice on the Auditions Stage https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo/ On a Saturday in early 2009, a 47-year-old volunteer church worker from Blackburn, West Lothian walked onto the Armadillo's stage to audition for Britain's Got Talent. Susan Boyle had told the interviewer she wanted to be a professional singer like Elaine Paige. The judges and th...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/sec-armadillo-wp/gcuv-sec-armadillo-the-voice-on-the-auditions-stage.mp3 0:06 3 full SEC Armadillo: Weightlifters, Hugo Awards, and Pantomime https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo/ The Armadillo's calendar is a curious mix. Interaction, the 63rd World Science Fiction Convention, presented the Hugo Awards here in 2005 - the genre's most prestigious honour, awarded to writers like Susanna Clarke for Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell that year. During the 2014 C...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/u/v/sec-armadillo-wp/gcuv-sec-armadillo-weightlifters-hugo-awards-and-pantomime.mp3 0:06 4 full SEC Armadillo: A Symbol of the New Clyde https://qualla.com/sec-armadillo/ Together with the OVO Hydro next door, completed in 2013, and the SEC Centre to the east, the Armadillo turned a stretch of post-industrial Glasgow waterfront into a destination. Once this riverbank thundered with shipbuilding - the cranes, the riveters, the launching ceremonies ...

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