Love this decorative windowhead on an 1860s Italianate former warehouse on Hutcheson Street in central Glasgow, especially the fish-like creature in the middle. These are the types of decorative elements which really help give a building personality, but that are all too often missing from modern architecture.
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This has always been one of Glasgow's architectural strengths, but somewhere in the last 90 years since the last one was built, we seem to have largely forgotten how to blend old and new to create such unified streetscapes.
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Further away on the left is an 1860s Italianate style warehouse. In the middle is the former Hutcheson's Hospital, designed by David Hamilton and constructed in 1802. These buildings were constructed over a 130 year period, and yet they come together to form a single united streetscape, tied together by the use of similar materials and classical motifs.
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Looking north up Hutcheston Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow.
On the right is the former Merchants' House, designed in a Classical style by Clarke and Bell, and built in 1842, while on the foreground on the left is the former John Glen and Co ware house designed by Thomson, Sandilands and MacLeod and constructed around 1930.
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Love this Glaswegian take on Mario for a street art mosaic on Hutcheson Street in central Glasgow.
A beautiful red sandstone former warehouse built in 1898 for the warehousemen J. and W. Campbell on the corner of Ingram Street and Montrose Street in central Glasgow. Designed by James Thomson in a Free Style, it was originally linked by a tunnel to another warehouse owned by the same company on the south side of Ingram Street.
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Former warehouse and cheese market on the corner of Bell Street and Wall Street in the Merchant City area of Glasgow. Designed by A.B. McDonald in an Edwardian Renaissance style, it was built in 1902.
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The upper floor and pediment were rebuilt when it was refurbished in the 1980s and turned into a pub called Babbity Bowster. Still occupying the site to this day, it's named after a Scottish Country Dance traditionally performed at the end of a ball.
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