Unfortunately, it's also something which seems to have pretty much been abandoned in recent years, resulting in a negative impact on the city's streetscape in terms of aethetics and in terms of creating a unique local feel.
Looking up Hunter Street from Duke Street in the East End of Glasgow. The corner tenement dates from 1897 and designed by John Cunningham. The one further up the street was built in 1902 and was designed by John Gordon. In the distance are a series of warehouses.
I love the curved corner of this tenement building on Arygle Street in the west end of Glasgow. It's a small and simple feature and there was no need for the architect to do this, but it adds so much to the character of both the building and the local area.
A different style of flower on tenement tiles today, but they're just as beautiful. These are from a close in Dowanhill in the west end of Glasgow. The next close along has the same flowers, but with yellow petals.
I don't know who's responsible for planting these sunflowers outside Olivia's on Crow Road in Broomhill, but whoever you are, thank you - they're a wonderful addition to the street and always help put a smile on my face.
I spotted these relief sculptures over the entrances to numbers 1 and 3 Elie Street in the Partick area of Glasgow. It's great to see such adornments on relatively new tenement buildings. Modern buildings need more little details like this.
Lone Survivor: It always seems rather sad to come across an orphaned tenement which has been left standing when all its neighbours have been demolished. This one is on Keppochhill Road in Glasgow.
I guess this is one way to extend the space available in your west end tenement flat. Not too sure how they got it past the downstairs neighbours, though.
If you've ever wondered what the retail spaces on the ground floors of many Glasgow tenements would have originally looked like, there's a short run of shops in Broomhill, starting at 308 Crow Road, which all seem to have retained most of their original frontages.