Former Savings Bank on Govan Road in Glasgow. Designed by Eric A. Sutherlandn it was built in 1906. Like a number of Edwardian tenements in the city, it originally had a drying green on the roof and a washhouse in the top of the corner turret.
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There will be a council planning meeting
on the 16th June 2026 to decide whether Thomas Lennox Watson's 1883 Greek Revival Hillhead Baptist Church in the West End of Glasgow can be demolished to make way for flats. Hopefully some level of sense will prevail and a way will be found to at least preserve the facade (in line with the original plans for this site).
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One of the rather beautiful buildings of the former Gartloch hosptial on the eastern edge of Glasgow, which has been renovated and brought back into use. Designed by Thomson and Sandilands in a French Renaissance style with Scottish Baronial details, it was built in the 1890s and closed in 1996.
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Distillers' House on Waterloo Street in Glasgow. Build in 1898 in a mix of Renaissance, Tudor and Baronial styles, it features three statues by Richard Ferris.
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I love this litte building at 190 Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow. It was built in an English Renaissance style in 1897 and was designed by Frank Burnet of the firm Burnet and Boston.
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These buildings are one of Glasgow's most distinctive and valuable assets, and yet we not only fail to capitalise on them, all to often we also fail to treat them with the respect they deserve, and by doing so, we put them at risk of being lost. If something good can come out of Sunday's fire, maybe it can be a new appreciation for the city's architecture and a new-found drive to protect it before too much more of it is lost.
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Sunday's fire on nearby Union Street has shown just how easily, and suddenly, our old building can be lost and our streetscapes can be changed, and I think it's about time we made a much more concerted effort both to appreciate what we have, and to ensure it's conserved for future generations to enjoy.
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One of Glasgow's most architecturally distinct districts, it largely maintains the Victorian streetscapes which have been lost in many other British cities. However, it's also an area which doesn't get the appreciation it should, and even many Glaswegians fail to recognise quite how unique and important it is from an architectural perspective. It's also slowly getting eaten away by architecturally bland and unsympathetic modern developments.
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A Victorian commercial building on West Nile Street in central Glasgow. This is a distinctive and, to me, rather attractive building which is all to easily overlooked due to the rather plain modern shop fronts on the ground floor. It's just one example of the incredibly diverse, but yet typically Glaswegian, range of Victorian buildings in the area of the city centre west of Buchanan Street.
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His gravestone was made by the Mossmans, while this relief was sculpted by William Shirreffs, who also created the sculpture of St Mungo which stands in front of the northern main entrance to Kelvingrove Art Gallery.
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