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.
The former Kinning Park Cooperative Society drapery warehouse on Coburg Street in the Laurieston area of Glaagow. Designed by Bruce and Hay in a simplfied Classical style, it was built in 1910. Like too many other buildings in this part of Glasgow, it appears to be more or less vacant and poorly looked after
The Georgian townhouses of the western range of Carlton Place in the Laurieston area of Glasgow. Like the rest of Carlton Place, it was Peter Nicholson and was built in 1813. Much of it currently seems vacant and, in some cases, open to the elements.
Art Deco former garment warehouse in the Laurieston area of Glasgow. Designed by C.J. McNair in 1928 for Messers Sloan and Co, it was attached to the India Building on neighbouring Bridge Street, which is currently being demolished.
In the early 2000s, it became known as The Chateau, home to various arts projects and the rehearsal space for a then up-and-coming Glagow band called Franz Ferdinand.
The rather gorgeous decorative stonework above the corner entrance to 1 Bridge Street in Glasgow. Constructed in 1857, this building was designed by John Burnet Senior for the Bank of Scotland.
Laurieston House on Carlton Place in Glasgow. A sadly neglected Georgian gem in a primarily Victorian and Edwardian city, Laurieston house was designed by Peter Nicholson in 1802 as a showpiece for John Laurie's development of a high class residential area on the southern banks of the Clyde.
Laurie himself lived here at one time, along with his brother David. Internally, the plasterwork has to be seen to be believed and is thought to have been designed by Francisco Bernasconi who had been brought to Britain by George III to decorate Windsor Castle. It is one of the most ornate Georgian Townhouses left in Britian, and is something which should really be saved and restored for the city or the nation.
The Caledonian Railway Lion on the former Bridge Street Station building in the Laurieston area of Glasgow. It was designed by James Miller and was opened in 1890. It closed in 1905 when it was replaced by the expanded Glasgow Central Station on the other side of the Clyde.
I've always found this a rather striking tenement. On the corner of Bridge Street and Kingston Street in Glasgow, it was probably designed by Bruce and Hay and was built in 1884 for the Commercial Bank of Scotland, with flats above the ground floor business premises.
The entrance to the former South Branch of the Glasgow Savings Bank on Bridge Street. This branch was built in 1888 as an insert into the ground and first floor of an older mid-19th Century tenement.
This gorgeous turret is on a rather beautiful Glasgow Style tenement on Bridge Street in the Laurieston area of Glasgow. Built in 1898, it was designed by James Miller, an architect who, in my opinion, deserves to be as well known in the city as 'Greek' Thomson or MacKintosh.
I’d booked a Glasgow city centre hotel in July but my car was banned from the new LEZ, despite being a low emission diesel. So I parked in Laurieston, Southside not in LEZ & used footbridge over the Clyde to the city centre. At 143 Oxford St I spotted this potential Art Deco masterpiece. 1937 6-storey 4-bay Art Deco former drapery warehouse. Unfortunately it’s a building at risk, in poor and deteriorating condition. #glasgow#architecture#glasgowbuildings#tradeston#laurieston#scotland
Iconic Glasgow pub The Laurieston goes on the market
If you know #Glasgow and you go out for the odd glass, then you will likely know that the #Laurieston is that rarest of bars, welcoming, good beer & just a wonderful place to hang-out. Let's just hope that the new owners, whoever they may be, are sympathetic to it's atmosphere & clientele.
78 Carlton Place on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow. Designed in a classical style by Peter Nicholson and built in the 1810s, it's the centre piece of an impressive block of Georgian townhouses. Lining what was then the upper harbour, these houses would have been occupied by the city's merchant class.
If you look carefully, you'll see this symbol carved on a variety of older Glasgow buildings. It's called a Fasces and it represents a bundle of wooden rods wrapped round an axe and a blade.
Originating with the Etruscans about 3,000 years ago, it's now most commonly associated with the Romans where it was a symbol of a magistrate's power. In the 19th Century is was commonly used to indicate civil power and the collective rule of law, explaining this example on a former police office in Laurieston.
In the the middle of the 20th Century it became associated with Musollini's National Fascist Party in Italy, and indeed the term Fascism is derived from the term Fasces. Despite this, fasces are still used as a symbols today, including by the French Army, the Guardia Civil in Spain and on the Seal of the United States Senate.
Three neighbouring buildings on Bridge Street in Glasgow showing four very different architectural styles, but they all work together.
Left: Art Deco warehouse (1935); Middle Top: Traditional mid-19th Century sandstone tenement; Middle Bottom: Neo-Classical red sandstone bank inserted into the older tenement (1888); Right: Glasgow-Style tenement (1898).
The India Building on Bridge Street in Glasgow. This is the worst infestation of buddleia I've seen so far on a listed building.
Built in 1876 for Robert McGregor and Co who made stationery account books and paper bags, it remains an attractive and impressive-looking building despite it's current perilous state. Not surprsingly, this building is considered at risk of being lost.