I love this rather wonderful creature which features on the fireplace in the boardroom of the former Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company on Govan Road in Glasgow. It's now home to the Fairfield Heritage Museum.
The entrances to the Calder Street Baths and Washhouse in Glasgow. Built in the 1910s in an Edwardiam Baroque style, they were designed by A.B. MacDonald. They contained a mixed bathing pool, a women's and infants pool, private pool, a Turkish baths and a steam room and sauna. Now known as the Govanhill Baths, the building is currently being restored by the Govanhill Baths Charitable Trust.
John Burnet Senior's 1870s French Gothic Church of Saint Jude's Congregation on Woodlands Road in Glasgow lit by the early morning Sun. It's spire is tall enough to be visible throughout much of the West End.
More photos taken around the Castle Museum of Saginaw County History, featuring the hallway, spiraling staircase, a model of a carousel, statue of Abraham Lincoln, an early 20th Century car, post office, and my favorite area: A reconstruction of the Myer Bros. Jewelry Store (1914-1974) which I believe is still the original cabinets, along with some photos of some wares. Shot in June 2023.
My favourite Glasgow tenement looking magnificent in the early morning sun. Situated on Broomhill Drive, it was designed by W.M. Whyte and was built in 1905.
Former clothing warehouse on Ingram Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. Built in 1899, it has now been converted into residential appartments.
The now abandoned #Olympia Brewery standing unused (sad waste of a beautiful spot) in Tumwater, WA. It looks like a commercial version of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Falling Water house. I remember touring the place with my parents when I was a kid. It was a fully operational brewery then.
I would love to know how this new Purpose-Built Student Accommodation block on New City Road in Glasgow managed to get planning permission as it sticks out like a sore thumb and blots out views across the historic buildings of the West End of the city from the equally historic Speirs Wharf.
Glasgow's historic buildings, and the views of them, are one of the city's greatest and most unique assets, but the council planning department seems to continually ignore the need to protect them. The issue here is that if we lose them through poor planning decisions, they are often gone forever and we cannot get them back. As such, I would like to see a much more cautious approach to urban planning in Glasgow.
This is not to say that new buildings should not be built or developed, just that there needs to be a stricter set of rules to ensure they do not have a negative impact of their surroundings, and the city as a whole. If developers are not willing to stick by such rules, so be it, and we should not let the profit at the cost on the city as a whole. In my book a bad development is not better than no development.
The terminal pavilion of a terrace of Classical townhouses on Claremont Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. They were designed by John Baird and were built in 1847.