Love the shapes of these windows on a late 19th Century blonde sandstone tenement on Butterbiggins Road in the Govanhill area of Glasgow.
#glasgow #architecture #architecturephotography #tenement #glasgowtenements #govanhill #windows
I love this mural by Smug on Mitchell Street in central Glasgow, and I've been known to spend way too much time waiting for some unsuspecting person to be pass through exactly the right spot to take a photo of it!
#glasgow #streetart #mural #smug #glasgowmurals #glasgowstreetart #mitchellstreet #honeyishrunkthekids
Absolutely love these heads on Langside Halls in Glasgow, scuplted by John Thomas in the mid-1800s. They represent four of the great rivers of Britain (possibly the Thames, Tweed, Severn and Humber). There's also a fifth head representing the Clyde.
#glasgow #sculpture #design #designdetail #rivergods #langside #architecture #buildings
The entrance to the main office of the former Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan, Glasgow. It was designed by John Keppie and was built in 1891.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowhistory #govan #shipbuilding #glasgowbuildings #glasgowarchitecture #fairfieldshipyard
nostr:npub158dxdwngulummywarrnm3qvy32c7ahl83evkhaagkj54e05mrrkslx8grv Unfortunately, I don't know the answer to either of those questions.
nostr:npub19dp9um2zqefaepyr8pphfgcjkf6mc0f5ag75ndyt9fszdepw9c5qt2zwzj I remember it as The Odeon, too. Paramount sold their UK cinemas to Odeon in 1939.
The former Glasgow Paramount Cinema on Renfield Street. Opening in 1934, it was designed in an Art Deco style by Frank T. Verity and Samuel Beverley, and it was their only cinema in Scotland. The cinema finally closed in 2003.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #oldcinema #glasgowcinema #artdeco
Love this stained glass above the entrance to Waterstones on Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. This building started its life as a warehouse before being converted into the La Scala cinema in 1912 by Duff and McKissack. As far as I can work out, the stained glass dates from this original conversion.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #oldcinema #stainedglass #windowswednesday #sauchiehallstreet
The main entrance to the Glasgow City Chambers in George Square. Designed by William Young, it was built in the 1880s in a mix of Italianate, Roman, Venetian and Flemish styles.
#glasgow #doorway #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #georgesquare #glasgowcitychambers
I love the hidden connections which is exist between Glasgow's sculptures. For example, these three sculptures can be found on 200 Saint Vincent Street and were carved 30 years apart.
The top one is of Saint Andrew and was created by Archibald Dawson in the 1920s. Dawson wasn't paid for his work on this building and as a result instructed one of his apprentices, Andrew Wilson, to carve the letter IOU (hidden on the sail of a ship) on one of the columns beside the building's entrance.
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Former School Board of Glasgow offices on Bath Street in the city centre Designed by H.E. Clifford in a neo-classical style and built in 1910, it has now been converted into a boutique hotel.
#glasgow #glasgowbuildings #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #schoolboardofglasgow #glasgowschoolboard
The former Blind Asylum on Castle Street in Glasgow. It was designed by William Landless in a Free Revivalist style and constructed in the 1880s. The Glasgow Blind Asylum was founded in 1804 to provide education and training to blind peope so they could earn an independent living. This included training them to be musicians and teaching them trades.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowroyalinfirmary
The verdigris-covered dome and golden finials of Ocean Chambers on West George Street in Glasgow have a special place in my heart. They are one of the first architectural features I remember looking at in Glasgow when I was young and thinking 'Wow, that's amazing!'.
#glasgow #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #verdigris #finial #dome
Anyone fancy dinner round at the MacKintosh's?
The preserved dining room of the house where Charles Rennie MacKintosh and Margaret MacDonald lived in the west end of Glasgow.
What always strikes me when I visit this house is how modern the interior feels, even a century after it was created
#glasgow #design #glasgowstyle #charlesrenniemackintosh #margaretmacdonald
A view along Robertson Street in Glasgow, with J.A. Campbell's A-Listed 1901 rather beautiful Glasgow Style Office building lying abandoned and derelict amongst the new developments of the city's International Financial Services District.
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#glasgowbuildings #urbanregeneration #buildingpreservation #architecture #glasgowarchitecture
nostr:npub1ex328w5w0hjweznw8t6f9epk5w5xy4ak6kzyc7y93lfjtelxuymsk9c58j That's great picture, if slightly depressing. And yes, this building was very lucky to survive the 1970s. It could so easily have been lost like so many other great Glasgow buildings.
I love these Green Men carvings which are all over James Miller's 1904 Underground Station in Saint Enoch Square in Glasgow. They're one of those things which always makes me smile when I pass them.
#glasgow #stenochsquare
#architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #sculpture #greenman
For just a few minutes this evening there was a stunning sunset over the Finnieston Strip in the west end of Glasgow.
#glasgow #finnieston #finniestonstrip
#sunset #glasgowsunset #glasgowbuildings #glasgowatnight #cityscape
Renfield Saint Stephen's Church on Bath Street in Glasgow. Built in 1849 in an early English Gothic style it was designed by John T. Emmet.
#glasgow #churches #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #architecturephotography #buildingphotography
Love this rather unusual stained glass window on the rear of Saint George's Tron Church on Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow.
#glasgow #stainedglass #window #windowswednesday #churches #glasgowchurches
I think I put the wrong feet on my dog before this morning's walk along Boden Boo Beach!
#glasgow #erskine #bodenboo
#dog #dogwalking #beach #footprints #thewrongfeet #glasgowdogs #glasgowdogwalks
Commercial chambers on West George Street in Glasgow. Designed by Jame Thomson in a Renaissance style and built in the 1870s, this is one of those Glasgow buildings which somewhat overshadowed by a larger and grander neighbour, but it's also a beautiful building in its own right.
#glasgow #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #architecture #buildingphotography #architecturephotography
