A former Glasgow nightclub building is to be turned into almost 200 student flats under a new planning application.

The plan for the site at 21-41 Queen Street, where Archaos used to be, is for it to be demolished with only the facade retained.

If approved, a fourteen-storey building will be constructed behind it in two sections.

It will be home to a 195-bed student accommodation block with associated facilities and a retail unit on the ground floor.

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Carrick Properties and CAQN Ltd are behind the proposed development, with the front onto Queen Street, and with a ground floor courtyard.

The current four-storey building dates back to the 1830s when it was a tenement-style warehouse.

Its most recent use was the Archaos nightclub from 1995 to 2007, hugely popular with clubbers, even hosting an episode of Top of the Pops in 1999, featuring Glasgow band Texas, fronted by Sharleen Spiteri.

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The planning application states architects Novel, have: “Embraced Biophilia (“love of life”) and biophilic design within their developments.

“This is an architectural and interior design style which incorporates and mimics nature.

“It’s based on the idea that humans have an innate affiliation with nature, due to our evolutionary history.”

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The site, whose upper floors have been vacant for more than a decade, was previously the subject of a planning application for an office development, which was subsequently withdrawn.

The application states: “The ground floor was let for a period in 2017, but the building has remained largely vacant in recent years and has fallen into a state of disrepair.”

The building is visibly in poor condition.

The application states: “There are signs of structural movement in the front elevation, with several window cills and lintels visibly subsiding.

“There is plant growth in areas where water gathers, including the eaves stringcourses. The impermeable paint on the original masonry finish is peeling in places where trapped water has broken through, revealing a crumbling sandstone façade beneath."