Love this bit of ceramic street art on a wall on Cathedral Street behind Queen Street Station. It's by the artist Louise McVey and it's called Possibilities Tree.
Love this bit of ceramic street art on a wall on Cathedral Street behind Queen Street Station. It's by the artist Louise McVey and it's called Possibilities Tree.
Love the shape of the gable on this former industrial building on Broomloan Road in the Ibrox area of Glasgow. Once home to the Ladywell Wire Works, I would guess it was built sometime around the 1920s (but I could be wrong with that date).
The building it's in at 20 Buchanan Street was designed by John Hutchison and his chief assistant Andrew Black in the late 1880s when Mackintosh was serving the final year of his apprenticeship in Hutchison's office, and Mackintosh is said to have designed what were described at the time as its brilliantly executed and surprising individual internal column capitals.
I think it's safe to say that Glasgow probably has the only Nike store in the world with column capitals thought to have been designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh!
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The Atlantids at the entrance to the former Stewart and MacDonald's warehouse on Argyle Street in Glasgow. These giant figures have mesmerised generations of Glasgow children since this building was constructed in 1903.
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As we don't seem to have had a decent one for a few days here in Glasgow, here's a sunrise at the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum from a couple of weeks ago.
Celebrating 128 years of the Glasgow Subway
The Glasgow Subway is the 3rd oldest underground railway in the world which now has futuristic trains travelling along the tracks. Yesterday was it's 128 anniversary so I thought I'd share some photos.
Today we went into George Square to look at the Christmas lights! I really liked the reindeer beside the Christmas tree!
The East Court of Glasgow's Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Musuem. It was built using money raised by the 1888 International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry, and opened in time for the ciy's second International Exhibition in 1901.
Glasgow Central Station in 1950 was filled with the sights and sounds of Christmas. The concourse Christmas tree was a perennial favourite with its model railway around the perimeter.
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Love this ecclesiastical grotesque which appears to be pulling itself through the wall of Shawlands Cross Church on the Southside of Glasgow.
The former Queen's Halls Assembly Rooms on La Belle Place in the West End of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilson and built in 1857, it features a sculpted frieze which tells the story of the progress of humanity. It's now home to the Om Hindu Mandir.
It seems there's an entire history of Glasgow which no one never knew existed until someone starts putting up plaques about it. And once there are plaques, it must be real, right? This one is in by the abandoned railway station in the city's Botanic Gardens, and there are about a dozen similar Glaikit plaques in all at various points around the city.
This rather beautiful ironwork grotesque is from J.J. Burnet's 1906 stable and servants' quarters at 1 Park Gardens Lane in the west end of the city.
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One of the beautiful Empty Bowl series of ceramic mosaic street art by the artist Wilma van der Meyden. This one is on Sandy Road in the Partick area of Glasgow.
It was originally home to John McDowall of McDowall and Company, an Iron Foundry in the nearby Post Dundas area of the city which, amongst other things, manufactured the pipes and decorative iron crests which can be found on such townhouses across Glasgow.
I love the fact that Glasgow's Youth Hostel is in a rather gorgeous 1850s French Renaissance style townhouse designed by the renowned Victorian architect Charles Wilson and is in one of the poshest and most expensive areas of the city's West End.
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The Lynedoch Place elevation, with a distinctive square campanile rising above it, of the former Trinity College in the Park Distirct of Glasgow. Designed by Charles Wilsob, it was built in 1856.
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