Details of the relief sculptures at the top of the 'Tower of the Winds' of the former Prince's Dock Hydraulic Pumping Station in Glasgow. Believe it or not, this isn't the only copy of this ancient Greek building in Glasgow. There'a another on the cupola the top of the old Athenaeum Theatre on Buchanan Street.
I love this unusual-looking tenement building on the corner of Holyrood Crescent and Napiershall Street in the north of Glasgow, especially the arches around the windows and doors.
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.
Just for a bit of background, the building on the right is the B-listed Hillhead Baptist Chuch in the West End of Glasgow which threatened with demolition by developers because they say it's not economically viable to save even its distinctive facade (mostly due to damage caused after they removed the roof and did nothig to it for several years).
Two-tone tenements on Clifford Street in the Ibrox area of Glasgow. Local legend has it this effect is due to the builders running out of one colour of sandstone and completing the building with another. However, it seems much more likely that this was a conscious design choice to use harder red sandstone on the ground flooor, where most wear was likely to occur, and the softer blonde sandstone above.
The same two-tone approach can be seen on many bank buildings constructed around the same time, where ultra hard-wearing granite was often used to face the ground floor walls.
The octagonal chimney of the former Prince's Dock Hydraulic Pumping Station on the south bank of the Clyde in Glasgow. It's shape and the decorative freize around the top appear to be based on the Tower of the Winds in the Roman Agora in Athens, which dates back to at least 50 BC. The chimney was originally 172 feet tall, but was cut down to just 55 feet in 1927.
I love this Art Nouveau style version of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on one of the buildings of the old Lambhill Street School in the Kinning Park area of the city.
1860s warehouses at Speirs Wharf in the north of Glasgow. Positioned at the end of the Glasgow spur of the Forth and Clyde Canal, close to its junction with the of Monkland Canal, this was once an important inland port.
New drawing. A cinema I frequently visited as a child. It's pictured here as I remember it, circa December 1977/January 1978. It has long since been demolished.
I continue to work on my #OpenTelemetry demo. Its main idea is to showcase traces across various technology stacks, including #asynchronous communication via an #MQTT queue. This week, I added a couple of components and changed the #architecture. Here are some noteworthy learnings; note that some of them might not be entirely connected to @opentelemetry
Lambhill Stables on the Forth and Clyde Canal in Glasgow. This was one of four stables built to the same classical design (similar to that used for Canal House at Speirs Wharf) along the canal in the early 1800s. These provided fresh horses at regular intervals for Swifts (fast passenger boats travellig the length of the canal). The other similar stables were at Shirva, Crainmarloch and Easter Cadder near Kirkintilloch.
@thisismyglasgow That's interesting! I suspect the stables pre-date the Swifts proper, which came in from about 1831 (Thomas Graham's original "Swift" was trialled in July 1830) and were a last-gasp attempt to head off the threat from the railways. However, passage boats of increasing speed had run on the F&C for years beforehand, so I'd guess that the Swifts and Hoolets inherited the infrastructure.