A decorative caryatid on a spandrel between the doors of William Whyte's French 1885 Renaissance style tenement on Queen's Drive in Glasgow. This is one of a number of similar sculptures on the building which are grouped into differet themes, including the arts.
An ornate tenement with a former bank branch on the ground floor on the corner of Pollokshaws Road and Moss-side Road at Shawlands Cross in Glasgow. The corner positioning of a distinctive building like this is a key part of Glasgow's architectural tradition.
There's something about this tenement on Battlefield Road in Glasgow which really appeals to me. It's a very simple building, but it still carries itself with an air of confidence.
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.
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.
How can you fail to love a city which has decorations like this not on a castle, or a grand mansion or its town hall, but on a tenement building? This is part of W.M. Whyte's 1905 Scots Baronial tenement on Broomhill Drive in Glasgow.
James Salmon Junior's rather beautiful 1900 Glasgow Style British Linen Bank building, one of the very few traditional red sandstone tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of Glasgow. Sometimes it seems the past is a luxury only the rich get to keep.
Early 1900s Free Style tenement on Great Western Road in the Anniesland area of Glasgow. Designed in a similar style to Anniesland Mansions which stand opposite and were probably designed by H. Campbell.
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.
There are few things which beats a wally close for making a great first impression. This one is in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. For those who don't know, a wally close is the communal entrance to a tenement which is lined with tiles, and often beautifully crafted ones.
Cleaned and uncleaned tenements on Albert Avenue in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Until a cleaning programme was initiated in the 1970s, most of Glasgow's traditional sandstone buildings were black from many decades of accumulated soot and grime. These tenements show what buildings looked like before and after they were cleaned.