The Knowe on Albert Drive in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson for the merchant John Blair, it was started in 1852. At the time it was built, the house was surrounded by countryside, but has since been overtaken by the growing city.
A classic corner turret on a tenement at a Glasgow crossroads. The positioning of such turrets and towers at major junctions has to be amongst the most distinctive features of Glasgow's architecture. This one is at the junction of Prospecthill Road and Cathcart Road in Mount Florida.
LA City Hall, 1995, with a post-Northridge earthquake “band aid” around it’s upper floors. Across the way - a KCAL satellite truck beaming (not streaming…its 1995) the ongoing OJ Simson trial from the LA County Courthouse. #losangeles#architecture#legal#photography#BlackAndWhite#tv
I took a photo yesterday of the IOOF Building as I was passing the corner of Elizabeth and Collins Streets. It opened in 1973 as the MLC building, and I believe it was the tallest building in Melbourne back then. I like the modernist curve.
The Scottish Event Campus on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow, with a rather large reminder that the area used to be one of the city's largest docks before the SEC was built.
Love this dragon-like creature on a drainpipe on the Gothic style former Hutchesontown Free Church on Dixon Avenue on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by John Bennie Wilson, it was built in the 1890s.
Govanhill and Crosshill Public Library on Calder Street in Glasgow. Designed in an Edwardian Baroque style by James R. Rhind, and featuring statues by James Kellock Brown, it was opened in 1906.
Camphill Gate on Pollokshaws Road in Glasgow. Built in 1906, it was designed by John Nisbet. Unusually for a Glasgow tenement it has five storeys rather than four, and a roof terrace offering magnificent views across the city, and out into the countryside beyond.
Is this the best gushet building in Glasgow? A gushet building is one constructed on a narrow strip of land at a junction between two roads (in this case Paisley Road West and Govan Road). Designed in a Renaissance style by Bruce and Hay, it was built in the 1880s as the Ogg Brothers Drapery Warehouse and Department Store.