thisismyglasgow

thisismyglasgow, 15 days ago to glasgow

I love this decorative Art Nouveau metal plaque of Neptune in a doorway of the Miller and Lang building on Darnley Street in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #artnouveau #pollokshields #neptune #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 16 days ago to glasgow

Three of Glasgow's most distinctive gushet buildings: The Glasgow Savings Bank building on New City Road (left), the Saint Andrew's Cross building at Eglinton Toll (middle) and Crossmyloof Mansions at Shawlands Cross (right).

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

Love these dormer windows on the top floor of a tenement corner tower on Albert Drive in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow.

#glasgow #windows #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields #windows

thisismyglasgow, 17 days ago to glasgow

1 Moray Place in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Built in 1859, it was designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson as part of a terrace of Classical Townhouses. Thomson himself lived here with his family between 1861 and his death in 1875.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #strathbungo #alexandergreekthomson

thisismyglasgow, 18 days ago to glasgow

A corner tower topped with a candle-snuffer roof on a red sandstone tenement on Kelvin Drive in the West End of Glasgow.

Distictive corners are a key element of Glasgow's architecture and they help tie its many and varied architectural styles together.

Cont./

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #tenement #glasgowtenements #glasgowwestend

thisismyglasgow, 18 days ago to glasgow

This might not look like much, but it's the remains of an Iron Age enclosure in Pollok Country Park in Glasgow. It consists of a 30 m diametre ditch (partly visible on the left) surrounding a raised central area (background right), with a causeway leading out of it (foreground right) to a paved road. Excavations suggest it dates from between 2,000 and 2,500 years ago and probably functioned as a defensive structure.

#glasgow #pollokcountrypark #ironage #archaeology #scottishhistory

thisismyglasgow, 18 days ago to glasgow

1850s Townhouses on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Thought to be designed by J.T. Rochead, anyone who was a student at Glasgow University in the 1980s and the early 1990s will most likely remember them as a row of rundown, seedy bedsits with as many people crammed into them as possible.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowuniversity #hillhead #cecilstreet

thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

Allegorical figures of Night and Day created by J.P. MacGillivary in 1888 for James Sellars' Anderson College of Medicine on Dumbarton Road in the West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #sculpture #partick #kelvingrove

thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

Good Morning, Glasgow. The weather's not great today, so here's a pair of cute little ducklings from Victoria Park to help get your Friday off to a positive start.

#glasgow #victoriapark #ducklings #urbanwildlife #glasgowwildlife #urbannature #goodmorningglasgow #goodmorning

thisismyglasgow, 19 days ago to glasgow

Clarke and Bell's rather beautiful Arts and Crafts style pavilion built in 1890 for the Titwood Bowling Club on the Southside of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #artsandcraftsarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 20 days ago to glasgow

Glasgow has a surprising number of quirky little reminders of the past which are all to easily overlooked, like this early 19th Century toll gate post at the junction between Paisely Road and Govan Road.

As Scotland became more industrialised in the 18th Century, both people and goods became increasingly mobile, and with that came the need for a better road network. This came in the form of Turnpikes, new roads which charged tolls for their use.

Cont./

#glasgow #history #glasgowhistory

thisismyglasgow, 20 days ago to glasgow

The former Pollokshields Burgh Hall in Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford in a Scots Renaissance style it was built in 1890.

#glasgow #pollokshields #architecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingphotography #architecturephotography

thisismyglasgow, 20 days ago to glasgow

I always love it when I get the chance to check out these rather gorgeous tenement tiles on Victoria Road on Glasgow.

#glasgow #tiles #tiling #ceramics #tenement #glasgowtenements #tenementtiles #architeture #design #victoriaroad #glasgowbuildings

thisismyglasgow, 21 days ago to glasgow

By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.

#glasgow #ironwork #dragon #architecture #glasgowbuildings #pollokshields #decorativeironwork #drainpipe

thisismyglasgow, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to glasgow

Whitehall on Springkell Avenue beside Maxwell Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Robert Duncan in a Classical style, this villa was constructed in the 1890s, with additions by P. McGregor Chalmers in 1913. It's first owner was William Gray of the shipowner and chandlers MacBeth and Gray.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #maxwellpark #pollokshields

thisismyglasgow, 22 days ago to glasgow

A Moses McCulloch and Company access cover on Albert Drive in Glasgow. Founded around 1810, McCulloch and Company started life at the Cumberland Ironworks on Stockwell Street, and until they ceased trading in 1962 they were one of the oldest such businesses in Scotland. Walter McFarlane spend 10 years working at this foundry before setting up his own foundry at Saracen Lane in 1850.

Cont./

#glasgow #accesscover #glasgowhistory #saracenfoundry

thisismyglasgow, 22 days ago to glasgow

An old tram track embedded in a cobbled lane behind the former Coplawhill Tram Shed in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Built in 1893, this depot closed in the 1960s, and now houses The Tramway, an internationaly renowned arts venue.

#glasgow #pollokshields #trams #thetramway #glasgowhistory #pastglasgow #tramway

thisismyglasgow, 22 days ago to glasgow

An imposing blonde sandstone Victorian tenement on Novar Drive in the Hyndland area of Glasgow looking gorgeous in this evening's sunshine.

#glasgow #tenement #glasgowbuildings #architecture #hyndland #glasgowtenement

thisismyglasgow, 23 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #architecture #postindustrial #industrialheritage #scottisheventcampus #secglasgow #finniestoncrane #crane #urbanregeneration

thisismyglasgow, 24 days ago to glasgow

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.

#glasgow #kinningpark #architecture #glasgowarchitecture #glasgowbuildings #buildingphotography

thisismyglasgow, 24 days ago to glasgow

Sunset at Glasgow's Riverside Museum. Designed by Zaha Hadid, it was first opened in 2011. The reflections in the window shows the buildings of the Clyde Waterfront further up the river.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #sunset #riversidemuseum #glasgowsunset #zahahadid

thisismyglasgow, 24 days ago to glasgow

Having some fun on the evening dog walk with long shadows created by the setting sun.

#glasgow #dog #dogwalking #shadow #longshadows #eveningsun #lateevebingsun #sunset

thisismyglasgow, 25 days ago to glasgow

Another rather unique Glasgow tenement, this time on the corner of Langside Road and Queen's Drive on the city's Southside. Designed by W.M Whyte in a French Renaissance style, but with a statue of Liberty on the top, it was built in 1885.

You'll often hear it said there are five statues of Liberty in Glasgow. However, in reality, this is the only one as all the others are different allegorical female figures.

#glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #queenspark #tenement #statueofliberty

thisismyglasgow, 25 days ago to glasgow

The pinnicle of Cooperative House on Morrison Street in Glasgow. Designed by Bruce and Hay and built in the 1890s for the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society, its topped by the iconic golden figure of Light and Life.

Cont./

#glasgow #architecture #sculpture #glagowbuilding #peoplemakeglasgow

thisismyglasgow, 26 days ago to glasgow

Found taped to a lamp post outside Queen's Park in Glasgow ...

#glasgow #glasgowhumour #govanhill #queenspark #humour #keepglasgowweird