John Burnet Senior's 1870s French Gothic Church of Saint Jude's Congregation on Woodlands Road in Glasgow lit by the early morning Sun. It's spire is tall enough to be visible throughout much of the West End.
Former clothing warehouse on Ingram Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. Built in 1899, it has now been converted into residential appartments.
I would love to know how this new Purpose-Built Student Accommodation block on New City Road in Glasgow managed to get planning permission as it sticks out like a sore thumb and blots out views across the historic buildings of the West End of the city from the equally historic Speirs Wharf.
Glasgow's historic buildings, and the views of them, are one of the city's greatest and most unique assets, but the council planning department seems to continually ignore the need to protect them. The issue here is that if we lose them through poor planning decisions, they are often gone forever and we cannot get them back. As such, I would like to see a much more cautious approach to urban planning in Glasgow.
This is not to say that new buildings should not be built or developed, just that there needs to be a stricter set of rules to ensure they do not have a negative impact of their surroundings, and the city as a whole. If developers are not willing to stick by such rules, so be it, and we should not let the profit at the cost on the city as a whole. In my book a bad development is not better than no development.
The terminal pavilion of a terrace of Classical townhouses on Claremont Terrace in the West End of Glasgow. They were designed by John Baird and were built in 1847.
Love this terrace of Scots Renaissance style townhouses on Kirklee Road in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by John A Campbell, they were built in 1900.
A large Victorian villa with a touch of Scots Baronial detailing on Nithsdale Road in the Pollokshields area of Glasgow. Designed in the style of W.F. MacGibbon (who lived in the house next door), it was built in the 1880s.
The Southern Rotunda, once the southern entrance to the Glasgow Harbour Tunnel, which ran under the Clyde at Finnieston. Designed by Simpson and Wilson and built in the 1890s, it contained lifts which lowered people and vehicles 21 m (72 ft) into the tunnels below. The two vehicle tunnels closed in 1940, and were filled in in the 1986, while the pedestrian tunnel, which still exists, closed in 1980.
Former 6th Battalion Highland Light Infantry drill hall on Yorkhill Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by William Hunter McNab, it was built in 1901.
I've always liked the look of this villa on Kirklee Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was originally built in the mid-1800s, but was heavily remodelled by J.J. Burnet around 1900.
I've always been intrigued by the similarities between these two buildings. On the left is a 1770s tenement on Gallowgate in Glasgow (containing the Heilan Jessie pub), while on the right is Charles Rennie MacKintosh's iconic 1902 Hill House in Helensburgh. Given that MacKintosh lived in Dennistoun until 1892, he would likely have passed the Gallowgate tenement, and I wonder if it acted as an inspiration for him.
Love this grotesque on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on Wilson Street in Glasgow. It looks like a combination of the Green Man and Pan.
Former Commercial Bank of Scotland building with tenements above it on Bridge Street in Glasgow. Built in 1884, it was probably designed by Bruce and Hay.
A rather beautiful Scots Baronial style villa on Nithsdale Road on the Southside of Glasgow. Built around 1887, it was designed by the architect W.F. McGibbon as his own house. Amongst other buildings, McGibbon also designed the nearby Sherbrooke Mosspark Church.
Northbank House on Kensington Road in the West End of Glasgow. Originally built around 1860, with the left side being added in a Jacobean style by Alexander Skirving in 1893. At this point, it was home to James Blackie of the booksellers Blackie and Son.