Love this variation on the polychromatic brick style of industrial building, using a mix of glazed and unglazed bricks. These windows are on the former sawmill offices on Craighall Road in Glasgow designed by George Bell and constructed in 1893.
The distinctive verdigris-covered spires of the former Jordanhill College of Education in the west of Glasgow. Designed by Hugh and David Barclay, it was built in 1913.
Some magnificent Classical detailing on the top of the entrance to the former Hillhead High School on Cecil Street in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Hugh and David Barclay, it was built in 1883, and is a reminder that at this point the area fell under the control of the Govan Parish School Board
I love this hinge on D.B. Dobson's Art Nouveau masterpiece at 50 Darnley Street in Glasgow. At first it looks unexpectedly plain in comparison to the rest of the building, and then it hits you - it's a snake!
Part of the Brutalist Anderston Centre in Glasgow. Designed by Richard Seifert, it was an early example of the megastructure style of urban renewal popular in the 1950s and 60s. While it opened in 1972, it was never completed. It's size and design turned out to be problematic with its many walkways proving difficult to police. By the 1990s, much of it was partially derelict and several parts have since been demolished.
Glasgow Past and Present: The tower of Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's Caledonia Road Church overlooking a modern housing development in the Gorbals area of the city.
The lodge at the gateway to Maxwell Park on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by H.E. Clifford, it was built in 1890, along with the neighbouring Pollokshields Burgh Hall.
It's great to see the scaffolding is finally off the Elder Park Library in the Govan area of Glasgow, and apparently it's scheduled to soon re-open. Designed in an Edwardian Baroque style by J.J. Burnet, it was built in 1902 with funding from Isabella Elder. It was opened by the Scottish-American Steel Magnate Andrew Carnegie, who himself was no stranger to funding the construction of new libraries.
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).
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.
I love these tenements on Terregles Avenue on the Southside of Glasgow. They're just so elegantly simple, with a hint of Art Nouveau about them. They were designed by H.E. Clifford and were built in 1895.
Saint Columba of Iona's Church in the Woodside area of Glasgow. Designed by Gillespie, Kidd and Coia in a modern twist on the Italian Romanesque style, it was built in 1937.
Canal House at Speirs Wharf on the Forth and Cylde Canal in Glasgow. Built around 1800 as offices for the Forth and Clyde Canal Company, it's thought to have been designed by David Hamilton.
The magnificent Edwardian Baroque Kelvingrove Art Gallery in the West End of Glasgow rising above the greenery of the surrounding park and into the last of this evening's sun.
This building at 35 Whitefield Road in the Ibrox area of Glasgow has always struck me as being potentially interesting, but rather frustratingly, I've never been able to work out its original purpose.
The rather stunning Shawlands Cross Church on the Southside of Glasgow. Designed by Miller and Black in a distinctive Late Perpendicular Gothic style, it was built in 1900.
The former William Cook and Sons Ltd, Saw Manufacturers, building on Houldsworth Street in the Anderston area of Glasgow. Built with polychromatic brick around 1870 (making it one of the oldest surviving buildings in the local area), it has some nice ghost signs along both its facades.