This was important in the era before the widespread availablility of electricy and incandescent light bulbs. While lightwells were once common in Glasgow's commercial buildings, many have since been lost.
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This central void lined with windows and white-glazed bricks allowed as much light as possible to reach what would otherwise have been internal rooms with little or no natural light.
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The lightwell in the middle of the 1890s Baltic Chambers on Wellington Street in central Glasgow.
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The remains of lightwells, lined with windows and white glazed bricks, in Victorian buildings on Buchanan Street in Glasgow revealed by the demolition of the surrounding buildings.
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I always try to take one of those vertical lightwell photos when I happen to look up them, but they never come quite right. I like this one though, especially how it looks like a corridor #photography #lightwell #blackandwhite #architecture
Lightwell Building (City Center Square)
📍Kansas City, Missouri
⬆️123m (404 ft)
🧑🎨Skidmore, Owings & Merrill
🏗️1977
⚙️Office, Retail
🏛️Brutalism, Modernism
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We have just launched our new, totally re-built website. The new design features a completely new show reel, projects section, and blog for us to add more behind the scenes details about our work for BBC, Discovery, ITV, etc. Please take a look - lightwell.tv
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