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.
Westdel on Queen's Place in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. Designed by George Washington Browne, it was originally built in 1890 for Robert MacLehose, who ran the Glasgow University Press and whose initials are inscribed on its date plaque in the bottom left corner of the photo. At one time it had a bedroom designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh, but this is now in the University's collections.
Dunglass Castle on the shore of the Clyde Estuary near Bowling to the west of Glasgow. Originally built in 1380 for the Barony of Colhouquon. By the 1700s it lay in ruins. In 1899, the house in the background was bought by the parents of the Glasgow Style artists Margaret and Frances MacDonald. The interior was later re-modelled by Margaret's husband, Charles Rennie MacKintosh.
I love this beautiful little church on Dalmarnock Road in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow. Originally built as an Evangelical Union Chuch in 1901, it was designed by J.C. MacKellar in an Art Nouveau style and is reminiscent of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's 1899 Ruchill Parish Church Halls and his Queen's Cross Church, also built in 1899.
The Charles Rennie MacKintosh designed House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. I love the patterns created on its walls by the shadows cast by the low Winter sun.
I love this lock plate on John Nisbet's 1907 terrace of Glasgow Style townhouses on Bute Gardens in the west end of Glasgow.
To me, there's more than a hint of MacKintosh in the decoration, which may be explained by the fact that Nisbet was a former classmate of MacKintosh at the Glasgow School of Art.
It's just a pity it's been rather defaced by the later addition of a handle.
One of the absolutely gorgeous lampshades designed by Glasgow architect Charles Rennie MacKintosh in the first years of the 20th Century for Hill House in Helensburgh.
One of the main living areas in Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh. I'm always surprised at how contemporary MacKintosh's interiors look, despite being created in the early 1900s.
Love this stylised flower motif on a bedroom wardrobe in Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh. It's a perfect example of the timeless beauty of his work.
Commissioned by the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie and completed in 1904, this is one of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's masterpieces, both inside and out.
It's undergoing preservation work and currently the entire house is enclosed on a metal cage. However, stairways have been included as part of this cage so you can view the house from angles that would just not be possible from the ground.
Redclyffe and Torrisdale. Constructed in 1890, this pair of semi-detached houses on Balgrayhill Road in Glasgow are thought to have been designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh for his cousin James Hamilton and may have been one of his first commissions.
A House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. It was designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh and Margaret MacDonald in 1901 as an entry to a competition run by the German design magazine Zeitschrift Fur Innendekoration. While design was very much praised by the judges, it was disqualifies on a technicality. The design was finally brought to life in 1989 and was completed in 1990.
Constructed in 1895, this is an early work by Charles Rennie MacKintosh. The general outline of the building follows the requirements of the Glasgow School Board, who commissioned it, but there are plenty of distinctive MacKintosh flourishes, including the classic Glasgow-style ogee domes on the spirelets.
Designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh in a Gothic Style with a Glasgow twist, it was built in the late 1890s while MacKintosh was still just an architectural assistant.
A plaque marking the birthplace of Charles Rennie MacKintosh, probably Glasgow's most famous architect, in the Townhead area of the city in June 1868. In the 1890s, MacKintosh returned to the area to design the Saint Martyr's school which would have been visible from the tenement where he was born. While the school remains, the tenement itself is now long gone.
Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Martyr's School in Townhead, Glasgow, as seen from Castle Street.
Built in 1895 for the Glasgow School Board, it was built using snecked red sandstone blocks and Glasgow-style details to give it a distinctive appearance.
Brass lamps in the reconstructed interior of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's home in Glasgow University. These are almost identical to some of the lamps hanging in MacKintosh's Queen's Cross Church in Maryhill.
The Nolly Brig over the Forth and Clyde Canal by Firhill Stadium in Glasgow, with its mural inspired by Charles Rennie MacKintosh's 1922 water colour called Sailing Ships. The bridge was built with European Regional Development Fund (from the EU) and was opened in 1990. The mural was added in 2019 by Art Pistol Projects.
For me, this has always been one of the weirdest buildings in Glasgow. What at first looks like some sort of strange concrete and roughcast pastiche of a traditional Glasgow tenement with a front door floating in mid-air turns out, on closer inspection, to be nothing but a new wrapper for the re-constructed interior of the flat shared by Charles and Margaret Mackintosh on Southpark Avenue between 1906 and 1914.
The Greek-style portico of the south wing of Lilybank House in the west end of Glasgow. The original classical-style villa was built in 1850, while this south wing was added by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson in the 1860s.
Interestingly, a north wing was added later another highly influential firm of Glasgow architects: Honeyman Keppie and MacKintosh.
The former Daily Record Building, Renfield Lane in Glasgow.
Designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh in an Art Nouveau style and built in the first years of the 1900s, I especially like the use of glazed bricks to reflect light into this otherwise dark and narrow lane.