Saint Andrew's Parish Church in the east end of Glasgow. Designed by timber and lead merchant Alan Dreghorn and built in 1739, it's based on James Gibb's Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, which was built in 1722. This was the first large scale classical church in Scotland.
One of five portrait roundels on the Glasgow Stock Exchange building on Buchanan Street.
Attributed to John Mossman, it depicts a woman doing science, something unremarkable today, but when it was built in the 1870s, science was an almost completely male field of study. I can't say for certain, but it must be one of the earliest public representations of a female scientist.
I spotted this somewhat alarming sight above a second storey window while out and about on Wallace Street in Glasgow today. I really hope that rope holding the loose keystone in place is stronger than it looks.
The keystone for the first storey window directly below it is in a similar state, but has nothing at all keeping it in place!
The Maryhill Panther, painted on the exposed gable end of a traditional sandstone tenement, peeking through between newly built flats on Maryhill Road in Glasgow.
James Salmon Junior's 1900 Art Nouveau British Linen Bank building is one of the last traditional Glasgow tenements left standing in the Gorbals area of the city. Many tenements were cleared in the 1960s and 1970s to be replaced by high rise flats, which themselves are now being replaced by low rise buildings, like the ones in the bakcground of this photograph. These are effectively modern versions of those original tenements.
By far my favourite bit of architectural ironwork in Glasgow, and possibly anywhere in the world! It can be found on D.B. Dobson's 1902 Art Nouveau commercial building at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow.
Sculpted signs on the Maryhill public baths and wash house in Glasgow (now the Glasgow Club Maryhill). They were designed by A.B. MacDonald and were opened in 1898. They included thirty-six wash-stalls, two washing machines, a sevent-fice foot long swimming pool, twenty-five private baths for men, and only six private baths for women. They proved exceedingly popular and were visited over 400,000 times in the Summer of 1938 alone.
Kelvin Court on Great Western Road in Glasgow. Designed by J.N. Fatkin in late Art Deco style and constructed in 1938, it was essentially the first luxury flat development in the city. It was also the largest residential flat development in Scotland at the time it was built.
42 Jamaica Street, Glasgow. This building was designed by George Bell in a Free Classical Slstyle and was constructed in 1897. It was built for the wine and spirit merchant Philip MacSorley and always had a pub on the ground floor. When it opened, the pub featured a snack and oyster bar, electric lights and toilets said to be the most up-to-date in the city!
There are many beautiful sculptures on Glasgow's buildings, but some of them are of quite unexpected subjects. It this case it's the Romano-Persian God Mithras on the former Sun Life Building on West George Street.
Love this enamel and metal thistle on the door of an old bank on Dumbarton Road in the Partick area of Glasgow. Randomly stumbling across glorious little details like this is one of the main reasons I love living in Glasgow.
Love this window on the back of 22 Park Circus on Glasgow. This same design is echoed in the roof of the structure to the rear of the building. It was constructed in 1872 and was designed by James Boucher. However, Alexander 'Greek' Thomson used the same pattern on the internal walls and exterior railings of his 1857 Holmwood House.
Once home to the infamous Clatty Pat's night club, this building on Great Western Road will be familiar to many who have lived, worked or studied in the west end of Glasgow. However, how many have noted the now-faded Art Deco beauty of its upper floor, which belies it's original function.
Designed by James Lindsay and constructed around 1930, it was built to have shops of the ground floor and tea, lunch and smoking rooms on the upper floor.
The SEC Armadillo in Glasgow. Designed by Foster and Partners and constructed in the 1990s, it has become one of the city's most recognisable buildings.
It was originally named the Clyde Auditorium, but because of its shape it gained the nickname of the Armadillo almost as soon as it was completed. Eventually, the owners gave in and officially changed its name in 2017.
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.
Build in 1898 in a mix of Renaissance, Tudor and Baronial styles, it features three statues by Richard Ferris. These are characters from Sir Walter Scott's narrative poem 'The Lady of the Lake'. Over the entrance are Roderick Dhu (left) and his rival James Fitz-James (right), while over the oriel window on the first floor of the tower is the poem's heroine Ellen Douglas.
The 1929 Art Deco extension to the Watt Brothers Sauchiehall Street Department Store. It was designed by A. Graham Henderson (of Keppie Henderson), while the metal casement windows and the friezes between them were cast by Walter MacFarlane and Co.
Love this little building on Victoria Road on the Southside of Glasgow. It's just so different from the surrounding sandstone tenements and townhouses, yet it still doesn't seem too out of place.
Love these stained glass windows on one of David Barclay's 1900 townhouses in the Dowanhill area of Glasgow, especially the apparently smiling fish-like faces in the lower sections.
I love the two buildings in the foreground of this photo, but especially the skinny little one where Subway is. They're on Argyle Street in central Glasgow and are just great bits of architecture. The signage on the ground floor shops does rather detract from the rest of the buildings, though.
Cleaned and uncleaned tenements on Albert Avenue in the Queen's Park area of Glasgow. Until a cleaning programme was initiated in the 1970s, most of Glasgow's traditional sandstone buildings were black from many decades of accumulated soot and grime. These tenements show what buildings looked like before and after they were cleaned.
Another rather unique Glasgow tenement, this time on the corner of Langside Road and Queen's Drive on the city's Southside. Designed by W.M Whyte in a French Renaissance style, but with a statue of Liberty on the top, it was built in 1885.
You'll often hear it said there are five statues of Liberty in Glasgow. However, in reality, this is the only one as all the others are different allegorical female figures.