May 1967. Built over a dual carriageway, it housed shops, a hotel, ice rink, bowling alley, health centre and penthouse apartments, as well as police, fire and ambulance stations. There was also a library and technical college. Historian Rosemary Wakeman called it a "colossal living vessel" intended to "elicit new codes of community behavior." According to an Open University website, it was a "strange tribute to a moment when it was thought that old cities, with their narrow streets, haphazard layout, and confused, illogical centres were a thing of the past." Later development By 1971 the town centre contained the largest supermarket in Scotland and work on phase 2 had begun. The Corporation sought the building of a department store, completed in 1975 as phase 3. It was built for Woolco with two levels of underground parking, and was sold to Gateway in 1986. Asda purchased the site in 1988 and maintained the "Red Balloon Cafe" that was widely implemented in Gateway stores. In the mid-70s the Golden Eagle Hotel closed and was later demolished after a vehicle crashed into the building. Phase 4 was completed in 1981. The structure was purchased by a shopping management group in 1996 when Cumbernauld Development Corporation was wound up. Phase 3 was demolished in 1996 and in 2001 the rear outdoor section of phase 1 was demolished. The new Antonine Centre was built on those sites in 2006. The centre, with of retail space, was opened on 6 June 2007 by Princess Anne. In March 2022, North Lanarkshire Council announced that they had reached a deal with the building’s owners to purchase and demolish it in the future. Gallery See also DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments List of brutalist structures Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings Notes References External links Official website, archived 9 September 2015. "Cumbernauld – Town Centre Redevelopment", glasgowarchitecture.co.uk, 9 January 2009. Model of phase 1 (1963–1967) Cumbernauld town centre 1966 Model of town centre "Cumbernauld town centre" poster Areas of Cumbernauld Shopping centres in Scotland