The Apostles, St. Andrews Cathedral, Honolulu. Currently, 6 of the 12 are featured. I could only find the names of 4, Andrew, Peter, John & James. If you know the other two, please let me know.
Some magnificent Classical detailing on the top of the entrance to the former Hillhead High School on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Hugh and David Barclay, it was built in 1883, and is a reminder that at this point the area fell under the control of the Govan Parish School Board
I love this hinge on D.B. Dobson's Art Nouveau masterpiece at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow. At first it looks unexpectedly plain in comparison to the rest of the building, and then it hits you - it's a snake!
Part of the Brutalist Anderston Centre in Glasgow. Designed by Richard Seifert, it was an early example of the megastructure style of urban renewal popular in the 1950s and 60s. While it opened in 1972, it was never completed. It's size and design turned out to be problematic with its many walkways proving difficult to police. By the 1990s, much of it was partially derelict and several parts have since been demolished.
@thisismyglasgow Look at those big concrete stilts.. this building was always my first choice of where to hole up to defend myself in the zombie apocalypse.
@thisismyglasgow For a little while in the early 80's I helped some friends who ran printing company in a building near the bottom of Hope St. Some of the offices upstairs were abandoned, and in one of them was a bunch of leaflets about the wonderful new Anderson Center that was going to breathe new life into the city centre. Glasgow seems to go through these cycles where new developments are launched, only to be killed off by the next one, which in turn is killed off by the next...
Glasgow Past and Present: The tower of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Caledonia Road Church overlooking a modern housing development in the Gorbals area of the city.
How one of the most famous architects in the world treats urban space – Chipperfield‘s Kunsthaus Zürich. This whole generation of stone-loving neo-classic architects is a disaster for urban development in times of climate crisis. #architecture#climatechange#urbanism#museum
The lodge at the gateway to Maxwell Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford, it was built in 1890, along with the neighbouring Pollokshields Burgh Hall.
The derelict remnants of Fairfield Farm Cottage in Govan. The farm was purchased in Isabella Elder in the 1880s and turned into Elder Park for the people of Govan. The cottage, which dates from the early 19th Century, was originally used as an amenity for the park. One of the few former farm buildings left in Glasgow, it's B-Listed, but now lies abandoned, fenced off and decaying.
Here's another rather unusual Glasgow building, this time in Summerston. Like many others, it has a corner tower, but it seems to have been specifically designed to look like a ruin at the top (the neighbouring terrace has exactly the same look to its corner tower!).
It's great to see the scaffolding is finally off the Elder Park Library in the Govan area of Glasgow, and apparently it's scheduled to soon re-open. Designed in an Edwardian Baroque style by J.J. Burnet, it was built in 1902 with funding from Isabella Elder. It was opened by the Scottish-American Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie, who himself was no stranger to funding the construction of new libraries.
Details of the relief sculptures at the top of the 'Tower of the Winds' of the former Prince's Dock Hydraulic Pumping Station in Glasgow. Believe it or not, this isn't the only copy of this ancient Greek building in Glasgow. There'a another on the cupola the top of the old Athenaeum Theatre on Buchanan Street.