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.
Some more beautiful Art Nouveau tiles from a Glasgow tenement in Govanhill on the Southside of the city. These are amongst my favourite ones which I've come across so far.
Another of Glasgow's wonderful gushet tenement buildings. This one, dating from 1858, is on corner of Argyle Street and Kent Road in the west end of the city. I particularly like the fact the architect still managed to squeeze in a bay window on such a narrow frontage!
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.
There are so many amazing buildings in Glasgow that are just going to rack and ruin. It's such a shame.
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thisismyglasgow - Love this 1920s Modern Movement warehouse. It's hidden away Fox Street in Glasgow and was built as an extension to the McCorquodales Printers works on Howard Street. It's thought to have been designed by Colin Menzies.
The rather wonderful Art Deco facade of the Watt Brothers Department Store building on Bath Street in Glasgow. This part of the buiding was constructed in 1929 and was designed by A. Graham Henderson.
A rather beautiful wally close in the west end of Glasgow. For those not familiar with the term, wally refers to the ceramic tiles used to line the communal stairwell (the close) of a tenement building.
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.
Growing up in Glasgow, you never really consider quite how odd it must seem to others to come across a Victorian replica of an ancient Greek temple surrounded by late 1960s highrise flats.
I came across this rather unusual date plate on Blackfriars Street in Glasgow today. I'm presuming the date is 1899, but the mirror symmetry in the numbers is not something I've come across before.
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.
Tiles from the communal stairwell of a tenement in the Hillhead area of Glasgow. Whenever I've come across this tile pattern before, it's always been arranged in pairs like these ones.
The magnificent Mitchell Library on North Street in Glasgow. Designed by William B. Whitie in an Edwardian Baroque style and opened in 1911, it is the largest public reference library in Europe.
Provost's Lamp above the entrance to a tenement on Prince Edward Street in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Designed by William Sugg and Co, it looks like this may have originally been lit by gas rather than electricity.
I love the little dragons hidden in the stonework inside Govan Old Parish Church (and there's one on the outside, too!). Designed by Rowand Anderson, it was built in the 1880s.
A question to start today: Why is constructing the building on the left be VAT-free, while renovating the historic building on the right and converting it to a new purpose is not? To me, this is completely the wrong way round and such tax rules are undoubtedly contributing to what seems to be the rapidly-accelerating loss of our built heritage.
When we lose an old building, we lose not just the architect's vision for its exterior, but all the other elements as well, like internal layouts, which can reveal so much about our social history. We lose all the little design features we all too often take for granted, but which make each building unique, like sculptures, and tilings and fonts and metalwork.