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Photo of the first floor coworking office. Red couches can be seen on the left and various posters about events in the space and coworking members can be seen on the notice board on the right. The length of the hall is hung with festoon lighting, and light comes in from windows on both sides.
Coworking space at Civic House Studio, Photo: Agile City
Photo of the coworking space at Civic House. The parquet flooring stretches out from the bottom of the photo and light comes in from windows on the left and right. There are posters about member events and a raised platform with plush red sofas and rugs in the foreground. The hot desks sit in the middle ground under the exposed beams, industrial roofing, and festoon lights.
Photo by Jassy Earl
Photo of a lunch bowl by Parveen's the Canteen here at Civic House. It is an example of the lunch that comes with the Civic House Studio Day Pass.The bowl is one of the iconic plastic, orange bowls that can be found in the Canteen or upstairs in the coworking space. Inside the bowl is rice, raita, pickled onion, falafel, kale, and marinated tofu.
Parveen's daily lunch service, Canteen at Civic House
Photo of the coworking space as it was set up for the workshop by Toby Paterson. Three large geometric structures are placed playfully about the industrial space. They are blue, yellow, and red. A group of people are conversing and sitting on the floor as light comes in from windows to the right of the photo.
Photo of the Canteen at Civic House. Five orange tables with matching wooden benches stretch down the room from the double doors on the far side. Soft globe pendants add to the light coming in from the windows on the left of the photo. On the right of the photo is he kitchen where Parveen's make their Pakistani inspired dishes. A disco ball hangs from the ceiling in the top left corner.
Photo of the Canteen in use at Test Unit 2019. Orange tables are arranged down the length of the room and people engage in conversation over the iconic orange bowls from Parveen's. The space is lit by soft festoon lights and the camera is placed at the head of the table looking along it.
Photo of the award winners at the Glasgow Short Film Festival afterparty at Civic House in 2019. The venue space is full of people sitting in rows on wooden chairs. The room is awash with multicoloured lights in green, pink, red, and blue.
Photo by Ingrid Mur
Photo of people gathered in the wildflower meadow outside Civic House for Test Unit 2019. Test Unit 2019 was a summer school for incubating ideas about civic design and making. The participants in this photo hold large cones of paper up to their ears in a listening exercise.
Photo by Jassy Earl
A photo of the Assemble x Test Unit event in 2018. A man stands at the back of the picture presenting with a microphone, laptop on a stand, projector screen, and speakers. In the foreground is a rapt audience. Light comes in from the windows and you can see festoon lights against the beams of the ceiling.
Assemble x Test Unit 2018, Civic House Studio, Photo: Agile City
Archival photo of Civic House when it was Civic Press, a left wing publishing house in Glasgow. The iconic sign on the facade of the building reads "Civic Press" and a matching sign reads "Civic Press Ltd." above the front door. There are two cars circa 1970 that hint to the date the photo was taken.
A split image of the fixed desk and a hot desk at Civic House. On the left is a view of an office set up at the fixed desk with a MacBook, a cup of pens, and posters hung on the peg board. On the right is a cafetiere, a glass of water, and a mug sitting on one of the hot desks with a partial shot of a coworking member at their laptop.
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Coworking space at Civic House Studio, Photo: Agile City
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Parveen's daily lunch service, Canteen at Civic House
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Assemble x Test Unit 2018, Civic House Studio, Photo: Agile City
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Civic House —

Coworking studio, communal canteen and flexible event space across two floors of a reimagined 1920s print works.

Address

Civic House
26 Civic Street
Glasgow, G4 9RH

Civic House started life as Civic Press in the 1920s and now hosts a dynamic range of activities supporting mission-led organisations in Glasgow – co-working, festivals, workshops, talks and food events (to name a few!)

Bringing together a community working across social development, the arts and green innovation, we provide space and facilities to turn ideas into action and build a positive future for Glasgow.

Flooded with natural light, the interior celebrates its open-plan industrial past. In 2021 we completed an extensive PassivHaus retrofit project – reducing our energy demand and generating electricity via solar panels to become one of Scotland’s first post-industrial spaces to become energy positive.

In July 2023, Civic House was awarded Silver for Architecture: Retrofit at
The Scottish Design Awards, read more about our Retrofit journey here.

Interested in Civic House?

View and enquire about hiring space here
For Coworking space and memberships contact: hello@agile-city.com

Spaces for Hire at Civic House

Coworking Space

Coworking Space at Civic House Glasgow, offers inspiring, open-plan and flexible space for collaboration and focused work

Area
118m², 1270ft²
at Civic House
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Festival Hub

Festival Hub at Civic House offers three linked spaces for larger scale events, festivals and conferences

Capacity
Up to 200
Area
343m², 3692ft²
at Civic House
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Canteen

Canteen at Civic House is an open and adaptable venue for informal occasions from dining to dancing

Capacity
Up to 200
Area
90m², 969ft²
at Civic House
People sit smiling in a canteen with orange tables and benches. There are orange bowls and cans of beer on the tables in front of them. The wall in the background is exposed brick and there are posters for events dotted around. From the ceiling multicoloured festoon lights are draped.
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Venue

Venue at Civic House is a welcoming and flexible space for public presentations, performances, workshops and exhibitions

Capacity
Up to 200
Area
117m², 1259ft²
at Civic House
Busy event room with a crowd listening to a talk at the Venue Civic House
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Project Space

Project Space at Civic House for meetings, workshops or exhibitions in an intimate setting.

Capacity
Up to 30
Area
18.5m², 199ft²
at Civic House
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Civic House Floorplans

A floor plan of the ground floor of Civic House. The scale is 1:200 and North is marked at the left hand side of the plan. Rooms included are venue, project space, canteen, kitchen and bar, gender neutral toilets, accessible workspace, accessible toilet, platform lift, and accessible entrance/exit.
A diagram of the energy strategy for Civic House. An isometric view of 26 Civic Street is annotated with Collective Energy's plan for a smart energy and air quality monitoring system. The energy in from the grid and solar panels is stored in batteries within the building and used for appliances, cooking, and lighting as well as electric car and bike charging. Meanwhile, there is a mechanical heat ventilation system and an electric hot water system to control the heat in the building. Behind the building is a plan for a greenhouse using recycled windows from the existing building.

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