The building was constructed for Wright and Greig Ltd, a wine and spirit merchant whose most popular product was Roderick Dhu Old Highland Whisky, which explains the use of this subject matter for these statues.
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Distillers' House on Waterloo Street in Glasgow. Build in 1898 in a mix of Renaissance, Tudor and Baronial styles, it features three statues by Richard Ferris.
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I love this litte building at 190 Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. It was built in an English Renaissance style in 1897 and was designed by Frank Burnet of the firm Burnet and Boston.
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If something good can come out of Sunday's fire, maybe it can be a new appreciation for the city's architecture and a new-found drive to protect it before too much more of it is lost.
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It's just one example of the incredibly diverse, but yet typically Glaswegian, range of Victorian buildings in the area of the city centre west of Buchanan Street.
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A Victorian commercial building on West Nile Street in central Glasgow. This is a distinctive and, to me, rather attractive building which is all to easily overlooked due to the rather plain modern shop fronts on the ground floor.
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A bronze relief of the Glasgow architect Thomas Gildard on his gravestone in the city's Necropolis. Nicknamed Gildey, he was born in 1822 in Luss on the shores of Loch Lomond.
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At the time it was built, Atlantic Chambers was described as being fitted out with all the latest features, like a passenger elevator going all the way to the top and electic lighting throughout!
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Atlantic Chambers on Hope Street in Glasgow. Constructed in 1899, it was designed by J.J. Burnet in the Free style and influenced by contemporary 'elevator' buildings in Chicago.
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The ogee dome, cupola and finial at the top of the corner tower of James Thomson's 1899 Liverpool and London and Global Insurance Building on Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow.
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The distinctive tower on this building was used to test light bulbs beyond their design voltage for longevity to ensure they were as long-lasting as possible.
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Luma Tower in the Shieldhall area of Glasgow. Designed by Cornelius Armour in a Steamline Moderne style and built in 1938, it's one of the best preserved Art Deco buildings in the city.
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It later became an annex of Woodside Public School. The main buildings were on Woodlands Road, and are now occupied by the Old Schoolhouse pub.
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Love this unusual and rather quirky corner oriel window on the back of the Pearce Institute in the Govan area of Glasgow.
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The Riverside Museum. Glasgow. Zaha Hadid Architects 2011. #zahahadidarchitects #glasgow #riversidemuseumglasgow #glasgowarchitecture #museum #architecture #architecturalphotography #monochrome #sigmadp1merrill
The Tolbooth Steeple at Glasgow Cross. Dating from 1634, it's all that remains of the original Tolbooth building, most of which was demolished in 1921.
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The Renaissance Style former Ogg Brothers Drapery Warehouse at Paisley Road Toll in Glasgow. Designed by Bruce and Hay and built in the 1880s, this is a major southside landmark.
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James Thompson's 1858 gently curving terrace of grand Classical townhouses on Crown Circus in the west end of Glasgow.
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The B-listed 1894 Whiteinch Lesser Burgh Hall in the west of Glasgow in February 2023 (top) and today (bottom). The dormer windows were removed in May 2023 supposedly to help protect the building.
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In 1909, this bakery was considered one of the most modern in the whole of Glasgow.
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I love the shape of this terminal pavilions on Victoria House in the Govanhill area of Glasgow. Dating from around 1900, it was once the home of A.F Reid and Sons Bakers.
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Lotus flower chimney pots on the back of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's 1859 Moray Place development.
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The winged statue on the top of Govanhill and Crosshill Public Library in Glasgow. It was created by William Kellock Brown in the early 1900s.
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Ths statues around the entrance to the offices of the Fairfield Shipbuilding and Engineering Company in Govan.
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I love the roofline created by the chimneys on this building.
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The former Sydney Place UP Church on Duke Street in Glasgow. Designed in a neo-classical Greek temple style by Peddie and Kinnear and built in 1857.
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I love the wonderfully expressive crouching Atlantids carved by George Frampton on J.J. Burnet's 1890s Banking Hall on Ingram Street in Glasgow.
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The entrance to the former Hide, Skin and Tallow Market on Greendyke Street overlooking Glasgow Green. Built in 1890 and designed by Honeyman and Keppie, it was converted to flats in 2000.
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Love this figurehead on a corbel of John Burnet Senior's 1870 Union Bank building on St Vincent Street in Glasgow. I particularly like her crown, which is reminiscent of a foliate Green Man.
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Some of the many domes and statues on William Young's 1880s City Chambers in Glasgow.
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