Niall Murphy
@MurphyNiallGLA
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Passionate about Cities, Architecture, Heritage, & Urbanism - Director @GlasgowHeritage , Chair @GovanhillBaths , Trustee @theBEFS - All views my own 🏳️🌈
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: It still saddens me to walk past this handsome wee Italian Palazzo at 57-61 St Vincent Street by the mid-Victorian architect John Thomas Rochead and think it was once the HQ of John Smith’s, the oldest booksellers in the English-speaking world😢!
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#PlanningStuff
in
#Glasgow
: A year on from
#COP26
it’s depressing to see a proposal to demolish
@marksandspencer
on Sauchiehall Street only to replace it with a “could be anywhere” student housing scheme which doesn’t even explore retaining Robert Lutyens’ classy facade👇😢🤦♂️🤯!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Good morning🌞! With
#COP26Glasgow
less than a week away let’s show the world what makes
#Glasgow
special such as our great architecture like this
#artdeco
classical gem - the Commercial Bank of Scotland from 1930 by architect James Miller…🥰!
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Morning all 👋! Bit of personal news from me as, alas, I’m no longer DeputyDawg
@GlasgowHeritage
I’m now Director instead 😊! It’s a huge honour though I’m conscious that we’ve a lot of work to do but if in a small way I can help
#Glasgow
and it’s heritage, I’ll be a happy man👍!
We’re really excited to announce that
@MurphyNiallGLA
has been appointed as Director of GCHT!
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Hello
@GlasgowCC
👋! Can you please do something about contractors thoughtlessly smashing up expensive stone paving in Bell Street, in order to remove redundant street furniture, only to then cheaply patch it up in poor quality cement? The public purse paid for the stone…😡🤯🤦♂️!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Out and about on my travels and spotted these lovely pink and green tiles with Adam-style revival ornamental pattern in a wally close in a red sandstone Edwardian tenement in Pollokshields on Glasgow’s Southside = very nice, no…👇👀🥰?!
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Occupy! Occupy! Occupy! Good news from
#Glasgow
, not only do
@GovanhillBaths
finally own the building, we’ve appointed
@clark_contracts
to start work on the conservation repairs to bring it back into use as a health & wellbeing centre for
#Govanhill
=
#WeSavedOurPool
😁🙌!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: This is an impressive 2018-2022 transformation of the former North British Insurance Office of 1853 - an Italian Renaissance palazzo by Victorian architects Clarke and Bell. What a difference the removal of the masonry paint has made…🧐🥰🤩!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: it’s Friday and if like me, you’ve had a busy week, imagine coming home to this glorious tenement close which has a very moorish flavour to it with striped tiled dado and geometric flooring = an absolute delight we will return to next week…😲😉🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: The last few days have been a bit depressing so by contrast it’s a bit of a tonic to see the transformation of the vacant Dobbie’s Warehouse on Glassford Street - a
#GlasgowStyle
gem - into the new House of Gods hotel, opening on Friday 12 April 🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Lord forgive me because I’ve had an attack of Tenement close envy. And how could you not given this
#GlasgowStyle
close🥰! Oh the wainscoting and newel posts😮! It’s definitely in the Goldilocks zone = not too hot, not too cold, it’s just right…😆!
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#PlanningStuff
in
#Glasgow
: The scaffold has now dropped so the ‘B’ listed retained facade for 140-144 Trongate, which dates from 1875, has been revealed once more. You can see the extent of repairs including new stone carving and the reinstated cast iron balustrade…👀👇🥰! 1/2
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Yesterday, I testified as a witness to
@ScottishCAI
about the abuse I endured at my school. It was one of the toughest things I’ve done. I did it because no one else stood up for this wee 11 year old who was too frightened to say anything and didn’t know who to turn too. 1/3
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: On Govan Road, over the Clyde from
@COP26
sits an ordinary tenement but look closer and you’ll spot a rare thing = a sculpture of a woman, Jane White Cossar, who ran the Govan Chronicle paper for 36 years after her husband John’s death in 1890…🤔🥰!
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#MomentsofHorror
in
#Glasgow
: The best example of a ‘Glasgow Square’, Royal Exchange Square should be one of the finest urban spaces in our city and yet the southern side is blighted by vacancy, outcrops of Buddleja and water saturated stonework. The Square needs saving…👇😡🤯!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Ah… the double bay windowed corner rooms of David Barclay’s classy tenements at the corner of Highburgh Road and Dowanhill Street - the apogee of Scottish tenement architecture. Look at the delicate
#GlasgowStyle
stained glass in the windows👇👀🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Everyone is raving about what the Indiana Jones set designers have done to St Vincent Street 🤩 but have you seen the transformation of John Street👀🧐😮!? The shops and bars with their awnings are a tremendous slice of Americana🇺🇸🥰! 1/3
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: it’s good to hear there may be a new use for one of my favourite Buildings at Risk - the Leyland Motor Company building on Salkeld Street which brings a bit of
#Miami
South Beach
#ArtDeco
to Glasgow if only it were decked out with a bit of neon🥰😉!
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OMG😮!!!
#Glasgow
looks amazing in the new
#IndianaJones
trailer with St Vincent Street and Parnie Street having full blown
#Americana
makeovers🇺🇸! It’s a great advert for
#Glasgow
’s fantastic architecture and cityscape so check it out 👀👇🤩!
Watch the new trailer for
#IndianaJones
and the Dial of Destiny that just debuted at Brazil Comic Con
#CCXP2022
. Only in theaters June 30, 2023.
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Final got up to Woodside Library to see
@city_building
’s restoration of the dome and, wow, it was worth the trip. Designed by JR Rhind the astonishingly elegant glazed dome of 1905 with a simple curved rib structure looks deceptively effortless 🤩🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
:
#HappyNewYear2023
everyone. Still on my hols but popped into the city centre on a mission to be greeted by a shocking scene
#WotNoCone
🤷♂️😱!?
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#MomentsOfBeauty
from
#Glasgow
: What is it about Rothesay which made Glasgow architects pull out all the stops? This is Glenfaulds, an 1880s tenement and, thanks to the cast iron mullions, look at the daring extent of glass 👀😮! Why not with a view all the way up Loch Striven😍!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Just wanted to say I think the re-rendered Provand’s Lordship looks great. Changing the appearance of an ‘A’ listed building was a brave move by clients
@glasgowlife
supported by the team led by
@johngilbertarch
but it was the right decision 👇👀🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Evenings have gotten dark but the bonus is sights like this = The Anchor Line Building by Edwardian architect, James Miller, who was obsessed with ‘White City’ architecture named after the Chicago Columbian World’s Fair in 1893. What a beauty 👀👇🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: I’m loving these low winter sun mornings especially for the warm glow of sunshine playing across stone. James Miller’s Union Bank on St Vincent Street, a great example of American Classicism, looks particularly magnificent against the blue sky…🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: this beautiful
#artnouveau
motif of ripe peaches on a purple ground set against a backdrop of iridescent green wally tiles and egg and dart friezes, forms one of the loveliest tenement entrances in Glasgow’s Victoria Road and yet it is unlisted🤔🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Wonderful to see James Sellars’ fine neoclassical elevation to the Mitchell Library finally unveiled after years of repairs. The cast iron lamp standards, and sculptures by the Mossmans, including a tribute to Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, are superb🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
- it’s been a long week so the sight of some of Glasgow’s finest wally tiles ornamenting the entrance to one of the city’s famous watering holes is certainly enough to divert my gaze and make me think a cool libation to start the weekend…🥰😉👍!
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#PlanningStuff
in
#Glasgow
: One of the pleasures of my daily commute walking into the city centre from the
#SouthSide
is seeing the transformation of Gorbals Street from dereliction into a proper urban street. It’s still got a way to go but what a difference 5 years makes👇👀🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Imagine having your own Kibble Palace tucked at the side of your house🤔! Well this
#Pollokshields
villa has a charming ‘D’ shaped 1880s conservatory by James Boyd of Paisley who rebuilt the Kibble Palace in
#Glasgow
Botanic Gardens in 1872-3...🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Seeing as I managed to completely miss
#InternationalTileDay
I thought I should make up for it with these beautiful Fin de siècle
#artnouveau
tiles which I spotted in Pollokshields and must have been retrofitted into an 1870s tenement close…🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: First time I’ve spotted a herringbone patterned tiled dado in a Wally close but this jaunty number with leafy trim capped by a rail of egg and dart tiles in a tenement in the Southside of
#Glasgow
must be a cheerful sight to return home to 🤗🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: it’s Friday and with all the heat I’m dreaming of a cool pint so with that in mind here is one of the lovely bays of the
@Griffin_Bar
formerly the Kings Arms on Bath Street - a classic
#GlasgowStyle
pub designed by architect William Reid in 1903 🥰!
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Morning
#Glasgow
🌞👋! Got to admire the chutzpah of calling these “the 39 steps” presumably in honour of John Buchan who was brought up in Crosshill on Glasgow’s Southside and walked to the University of Glasgow every day. Reader, I checked and there are 47 steps in total🤦♂️🤷♂️😂!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Going, Going, Gone… Goodbye paintwork, hello stone! What a difference nine months makes to architect John Thomas Rochead’s wee warehouse at 97-101 Trongate. From vacant & derelict to back in use once more and looking the business = good work 🥰😉👍!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Crossmyloof Mansions in Shawlands is kind of a mini-me version of
#NewYork
’s Flatiron - I love how thin it is at the apex and the clarity of the facades with the scroll buttresses framing the top floor windows. The Granary’s new signs are fun...🥰😉!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Well guess who is looking all Parisian in the early morning sunshine🤩! I love how the Robert Adam’s Maclennan Arch frames the view into Glasgow Green of David Hamilton’s Nelson Monument further down the avenue and past the Glasgow 2014 monument 🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: What a difference three years makes. With thanks to
@GlasgowCC
funding the Meville Street corner tenement has been saved from dereliction and transformed with the GRIND house coffee shop opening up the facade. Just shows what can be done…🤔🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: An oldie but a goodie for
#InternationalWomensDay
- La Pasionaria, Arthur Dooley’s monument to Dolores Ibárruri and the Spanish Civil War veterans. On the plinth is her defiant slogan – 'better to die on your feet than live forever on your knees' ✊!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
from
#Glasgow
: You can’t go to Rothesay without seeing the ‘A’ listed public conveniences. Handily, I visited the Gents at 8am so had this Victorian tour-de-force all to myself. The lavish interior was designed to impress and convey the wealth of the town 😮! 1/2
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: I couldn’t pass through Park Circus without checking on La Casa at No.22. The magnificent
#GlasgowStyle
storm-doors commissioned by Walter Macfarlane II from Salmon Son & Gillespie between 1897 & 1905 look a lot better than when I last saw them…🥰!
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#Glasgow
heritage update: the ‘B’ listed 5 Blythswood Square aka The Glasgow Society of Lady Artists' Club - important for women’s history + Charles Rennie Mackintosh heritage but vacant and in poor condition. The Buildings at Risk Register are now going to visit and assess it🧐!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: A 1980s BT phone box, banal, vandalised and unloved but look closely and you’ll see two Oscar Marzaroli photographs of the boys in high heels and a girl in a close which someone has installed in the base = a lovely blink and you miss it gesture🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Advent day 22 and I love James Salmon Jr’s entrance to the Hatrack especially for sculptor Francis Derwent Wood’s plastic treatment of the stone and idiosyncratic ornamental details including this exquisite angel tucked in amongst the architecture🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Morning all🌞👋! The legendary Star Bar at Eglinton Toll was at its Sunday best when I was out on yesterday’s walk. I’ve always had a soft spot for the Star Bar tenement which, though architecturally understated, says
#Southside
of
#Glasgow
to me🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: This big box is the John Street Church, a clever design by J T Rochead who tucks the huge glass windows directly into the columns. If you look closely through them you can see one of Glasgow’s finest plasterwork ceilings, with oval centrepiece👀🧐🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: One of my favourite street scenes in Glasgow = the play of light and shade and the rhythm of windows on the handsome stone canyon that is Hope Street with ‘David’ and the Northern European Renaissance clock tower of Central Station soaring above 🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: This morning I’m heading off for a bittersweet site visit to the former Haghill Public School, built in 1904 for the School Board of Glasgow, to see how
@GlasgowHeritage
can assist further to a recent roof collapse. Wish me luck…😬😢!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Advent Day 25 so
#MerryChristmas
everyone 🎅🎉🍾! Having looked at some of
#Glasgow
’s finest doors, today we are going through the keyhole of the Mercat Cross at the heart of Glasgow👇! Enjoy and I hope you have a great Christmas 😉👍!
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#PlanningStuff
in
#Glasgow
: our climate is getting wetter which is why we get localised flooding in places like Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s Walmer Crescent 👀👇! This is why we should look at replacing hard surfaces with rain gardens which will help slow rainwater run off…🤔
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: We all love an
@TnmntTiles
wally close but have you ever wondered how they might have evolved after WW1🤔?! Well here’s a clue, a full terrazzo wally close with Bakelite handrails by City Engineer, Thomas Somers which dates from 1933 = v nice😊🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Nice to see the Rapunzel room in the tower of Pollokshields Burgh Hall being lit up on a dark autumnal evening. It really makes the building live up to its fairy tale potential and brings out the romantic side of its Scottish Baronial character 🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: This great faïence Beaux Arts facade was built by James Miller as Cranston's DeLuxe for Stuart Cranston, the brother of Miss Cranston. Unfortunately, his innovative idea of combining tea room and cinema was also his undoing as it wasn’t successful😬!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Clarke & Bell’s Corinthian colonnade for the Merchants House finishes the view down Garth St. It’s topped by Walter Buchan’s frieze ‘International Commerce’. The reflections in the windows make it look like the building is dissolving into the sky 🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
Interested to hear moves are afoot to redevelop the ABC site on Sauchiehall Street. Heritage wise, I hope the proposals include retaining Charles McNair’s colourful entrance - the closest Glasgow gets to a Grauman's Chinese Theatre in LA moment…🤔🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: in today’s tweet I’m looking at Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s oldest surviving villa, The Knowe. Located on Albert Drive in
#Pollokshields
, this Italianate villa of 1852 has the most magnificent set of gateposts so is worth a gander...🥰😉👍!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Miserable morning on Saturday but I promised I’d go and get something nice for breakfast so despite the rain I’m glad I did as I spotted this amazingly vigorous sunflower🌻in
#Glasgow
in late October...😮! Stoop of the year I reckon...🥰😉👍!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Good morning from
#Glasgow
where the West Coast of Scotland dawn skies are pretty spectacular at the moment…🌞👋👇👀😮🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: January has been so gloomy here’s a bit of colour to cheer it up. I like a door with a good story. Allegedly, this hot pink door in Glasgow’s Westend is the result of the lady of the house trying to annoy her husband. I like that story
#YouGoGirl
😉!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Such a relief seeing the lights and bustling crowds around the Gordon Street entrance to Glasgow Central Station and realising you’re back home in the heart of a big brash city you know and love. A favourite Glasgow moment for me…😅😊❤️👍!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: I’m sorry to hear that the owner of the beautiful ‘B’ listed conservatory in Pollokshields has applied to demolish it on the grounds it is unsafe and too great a burden to repair and maintain…🤔😢! More information here:
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: It’s Advent day 9 so here’s a marvellously exotic double doorcase which looks like it strayed into Glasgow from a mysterious lost civilisation. In fact, it’s by architect Alexander Skirving who was Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s chief draughtsman…🧐🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Another stunning tenement transformation but what I really enjoy about this one is how
@pagepark
channeled the great
#GlasgowStyle
architect James Salmon Jr’s sense of humour with a wee salmon joke in their cleverly designed rainwater hopper…🥰😂!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: for today’s tweet, we depart from domesticity to visit the north eastern edge of
#Pollokshields
, a strip of land the Maxwell family did not control, to see a delightful example of the
#GlasgowStyle
- a wee treat which brims with humour...😀🥰👍!
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Continuing into December, here’s another building coming off the
#BuildingsAtRiskRegister
thanks to some
@GlasgowHeritage
funding = 202 Hunter Street. Built in 1902 by John Gordon for J & A Arthur, potato and grain merchants, it has been on the BARR since 2013. Adios buddleja 👋!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Did you know that the name ‘Little Dovehill’ comes from the mound miraculously raised by St Mungo so the crowd he was preaching to could better see him? This is where the phrase "Let Glasgow flourish by the preaching of the word" comes from…🤔👀🥰!
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Today’s random ramble is through Paisley, Scotland’s largest town. Paisley does a nice line in Art Nouveau tenements which out Glasgow Stye Glasgow. So here’s a C listed one at 4 Glen St possibly by W D McLennan. Love the Chimney stack + flying buttress combo.
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Wandered into the Langside Estate and was impressed by the care put into this
#Brutalist
housing scheme nicely offset by the landscaping. There is a whiff of Paul Rudolph about it and I love the entrances. Conservation Area status
@HistEnvScot
...🤔?
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#MomentsofOutrage
in
#Glasgow
: I started the week with an outrage so let’s finish on one! I was shocked to see the state of Royal Exchange Square yesterday. The former Royal Bank of Scotland is one of the finest examples of the Greek Revival in
#Glasgow
but just look at it…😭😡!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: I managed to get one last walk over the lovely lacy cast iron footbridge for the former Strathbungo Station before it was removed. The components were neatly stacked along Darnley Road yesterday. Allegedly, it is going to a Southside park…😢🤔🤷♂️!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Good to see the refurbished Beco Building at the Barclay Campus is no longer a Building at Risk. Funny to think a former Leader of the Council once argued for its demolition on the grounds it held the city back. Now, it’s a business incubator…🤔🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Now this is how to finish your oriel bay window with style! Extravagantly detailed with the stone almost draped like cloth, this is architect James Boucher otherwise faithfully channeling Charles Wilson at 22 Park Circus for Walter Macfarlane👀😮🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: There is something immensely satisfying, and very Glasgow, about the effortless, matter of fact way the huge classically detailed stone piers at Glasgow’s Central Station, support the beams and trusses carrying the glass roof over the concourse😮🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
from
#Glasgow
: And the utterly charming tenement award goes to😲! My OH spotted this on Shore Street in Campbeltown and swooned. Started life as a two storey Georgian building before getting a two storey late Victorian oriel bay windowed extension = very cute🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Talking about skylines, for me the most welcome development in recent years is how the graceful tower of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s Caledonia Road Church has resumed its rightful place as a focal point on the skyline of Glasgow’s Southside 🥰! 1/3
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#MaintenanceMatters
: A welcome sight stumbling across a squad with a cherry picker removing buddleja from the ‘A’ listed facades of Royal Exchange Square,
#Glasgow
’s finest urban set piece. If left unchecked the buddleja’s roots will gradually prise apart and damage the stone 😥!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: This crisp winter sunshine is fabulous for showing off the warm tones of Glasgow’s blonde and red sandstone and only in Glasgow could you shift from full throated Scottish Baronial to full throated Edwardian Baroque in two such dramatic corners 🤩🥰!
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Sorry to report that my gentle cat, Beanie, was put to sleep today having been unwell for a while - lethargic & off her food. We worked hard to turn it around but sadly her organs were failing. Here she is in happier days very pleased with her new bed. RIP my wee friend😔💔🐈🌈
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Allegedly over 160 years old, the lone Finnieston tree dominates the scene in front of the handsome ‘B’ listed Franklin Terrace of 1845 but this 75ft Ash does make you wonder how Argyle Street would look if it was a genuine tree lined avenue…🤔?!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s
#ArtNouveau
mannerist entrance to the Glasgow Herald Building is a thing of joy. It’s like a zany 1960s hairdo. And check out the curious, almost primitive, corbels which have a great sense of movement about them 👇👀🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
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#Glasgow
: It’s been a long week so you can guess what’s on my mind but does anyone want to guess where I am which is a great example of Modernist ornament with a mix of irregular patterned mosaic tile, fine natural grain marble and sans serif typeface🍻🤔🥰!?
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#MomentsofBeauty
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#Glasgow
: a fine afternoon for a visit to Parkhead Cross - hands down the finest tenemental cross in
#Glasgow
for my money with all the stops pulled out in a terrific townscape crescendo. Erudite too, the tower in the 2nd image is based on the Old College🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
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#Glasgow
: Good to see progress on
@GovanhillBaths
with the installation of a new roof light to the Steamie which looks so crisp and clear especially when compared to the former polycarbonate one which had gone milky in the sunlight. What a difference…😲🧐🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
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#Glasgow
: dawn in the city was positively ethereal yesterday and the quality of light on a walk to
#QueensPark
very painterly. The effect was quite ghost like and hauntingly beautiful. It reminds me of why I love
#Glasgow
...😮🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
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#Glasgow
: The charming corbelled cap-house to idiosyncratic architect Robert William Billings’ baronial warehouse celebrates the corner of Brunswick & Ingram Streets with style. It’s one of my Glasgow dream spaces. The perfect little artist’s garret…😴💭🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
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#Glasgow
: Finished my talk last night and walked out into a glorious West Coast of Scotland sunset with James Miller’s red sandstone Caledonian Mansions - one of Scotland’s finest tenements - glowing in the gloaming. Definitely feels like Spring now 🌱🥰👍!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Apparently, it’s my two year Twitter anniversary today so to celebrate here is a beautiful Fin de siècle mask of a
#GlasgowRose
which is on an unlisted tenement on Carmunnock Road - many thanks to all who follow me…🥰😉👍!
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I’ve been involved in efforts to save the Sir John Maxwell School for a while so it was with a heavy heart I viewed this👇on site yesterday. Sadly, such an uncontrolled collapse, which happened at a known weak point in the building fabric, means the game is probably up…😔! 1/4
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#MomentsOfBeauty
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#Glasgow
: James Miller’s Union Bank looking resplendent in the morning sunshine🥰! Extraordinary that Gomme & Walker, the experts on Glasgow’s architecture, are so dismissive, seeing it as an example of the ‘opulent philistinism that drove Mackintosh out’🤔🤦♂️!
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Call me sentimental but one of the reasons I wanted to save this school was because it’s architect, Arthur Donald Hamilton, died aged 34 on the first day of the Somme having declined a commission as he felt he should ‘serve in the line with everyone else’. That touched me…😢 4/4
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Another
#Glasgow
building on the
#BuildingsAtRiskRegister
where
@GlasgowHeritage
has tried to help. The Lion Chambers by architect James Salmon Jr is probably the building most folk inquire about such is the interest. The problem, though, is fractured ownership within it…🤔😢!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: though now a source of blight in the city centre architect Charles J McNair’s huge & colourful classical gateway of 1929 to the O2 ABC is one of Sauchiehall Street’s most memorable moments so I very much hope someone will save it from demolition🙏🥺!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: Want to see the finest courtyard in Glasgow🥰? Such a shame it’s given over to cars & bins😢! Imagine if it were open to the public, glazed over like the British Museum and used to display the best of Glasgow’s civic collection🤔? Maybe one day🤷♂️!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: as this week was meant to be the start of
#COP26
in Glasgow can I make a plea for more
#StreetTrees
? Look how they transform the amenity of these otherwise austere tenement streets in
#Govanhill
🥰! Just think how trees could improve our city...🤔!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: This is one of the nicest finds I’ve come across in
#Glasgow
. Each of the oriel bay windows on Gardner Street between Muirpark and Lawrie Streets has its own unique stone carved base, each with a distinctive botanical & floral ornamental motif🥰! 1/2
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#MomentsOfBeauty
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#Glasgow
: This is the handsome former Wylie Hill department store on Buchanan Street designed by John Hutchinson in 1888-9 but within it are these unusual Ionic capitals which protect the cast iron = an early example of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s work 👀👇🥰!
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#MomentsofBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: an eerie walk up a deserted Buchanan Street allowed me to photograph some of my favourite buildings including the muscular ‘A’ listed North British Rubber Co by Robert Thomson with it rippling balconies - Vikki Vale should live in the penthouse🤔🥰!
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#MomentsOfBeauty
in
#Glasgow
: As a follow up to Friday’s tweet, look at the sophisticated way architect Charles Wilson handles the corner junction on his Venetian Renaissance gem, the Royal Faculty Of Procurators in Nelson Mandela Place. It’s a really delightful resolution 👀🥰!
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