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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He's perhaps better known for his writings, including memoirs on both Alexander 'Greek' Thonson, with whom he was friendly, and the Mossman family, Glasgow's greatest dynasty of architectural sculptors. His final work, published in 1895, the same year he died, was the wonderfully titled 'An Old Glasgow Architect on Some Older Ones'.
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He started his architectural career as an apprentice to David Hamilton, the father of architecture in the city, who helped develop the cemetry where Gildard is now buried. He then went into a partnership with Robert Macfarlane and designed a number of buildings around Glasgow, including Belgrave Terrace (featured in my previous post) and the warehouse building which now houses the Britannia Panopticon.
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A bronze relief of the Glasgow architect Thomas Gildard on his gravestone in the city's Necropolis. Nicknamed Gildey, he was born in 1822 in Luss on the shores of Loch Lomond. While not well-known now, throughout his career, he was connected to a number of the key figures of 19th Century Glasgow architecture.
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Atlantic Chambers on Hope Street in Glasgow. Constructed in 1899, it was designed by J.J. Burnet in the Free style and influenced by contemporary 'elevator' buildings in Chicago.
At the time it was built, Atlantic Chambers was described as being fitted out with all the latest features, like a passenger elevator going all the way to the top and electric lighting throughout!
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The ogee dome, cupola and finial at the top of the corner tower of James Thomson's 1899 Liverpool and London and Global Insurance Building on Saint Vincent Street in Glasgow.
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