Gutted by fire in 2005, and missing its roof, this B Listed building was, for many years, pretty much abandoned and left to fall apart. However, in the last few years it has been very sympathetically turned into residential housing (including recasting the beautiful, Thomsonesque original railings) ensuring that this little gem will be safe for years to come.
The former Mission Hall on Nithsdale Drive on the Southside of Glasgow. Built in 1887 and designed by Alexander Skirving, it's very strongly influenced by Skirving's former mentor Alexander 'Greek' Thomson. This is a great example of how a derelict, at-risk building can be bought back into use and so saved for the future.
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Love this grotesque on Robertson and Dobbie's 1908 Glasgow Style warehouse on Wilson Street in Glasgow. It looks like a combination of the Green Man and Pan.
The impressive curving facade of Salisbury Quadrant on Nithsdale Drive in the Strathbungo area of Glasgow. Designed in the imposing Classical style of Thomson and Turnbull, it was built around 1880.
The Lion Chambers on Hope Street in Glasgow. Designed by James Salmon Jnr in a mix of Glasgow Style and Scottish Baronial, it was built in 1905 using the Hennebique System of reinforced concrete. This building was once home to an eclectic mix of retail outlets lawyers chambers and artists studios, but due to structural issues, it has been mostly empty since 2010.
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The elegantly simple entrance to the former municipal buildings on Orkney Street in Glasgow. Designed by John Burnet Snr and built in 1866, it originally contained a police station and a courtroom/public hall.
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It's Texture Tuesday!
An exterior detail of the Salvador Dalí Museum (HOK/Yann Weymouth, 2011), St. Petersburg, FL.
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Lone Survivor: It always seems rather sad to come across an orphaned tenement which has been left standing when all its neighbours have been demolished. Often, as is the case for this one on Keppochhill Road in Glasgow, the survivors have a pub on their ground floor and this was what saved it as it was deemed too expensive to buy out the licence for such premises.
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Lavirotte building in Paris.
Wonderful example of Art Nouveau architecture (1901)
Vallila Library, Helsinki, Finland.
Serving the Vallila neighbourhood in the north of the Finnish capital, this library was designed by Juha Leiviskä and opened in 1991.
: Fuji X-T20 + XF14mm f/2.8 R
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Love the detail on the grave monument for the theatre impresario John Henry Alexander in the Glasgow Necropolis, especially the rather wind-blown foliate green man.
Entrance to one of the townhouses on Lancaster Terrace in the west end of Glasgow. Built around 1875, their design has clearly been influenced by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson's nearby Westbourne Terrace (constructed a few years earlier).
1890s tenement gable end in the Govan area of Glasgow.
Renown Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari has rejected the prestigious Wolf Prize, refusing its $100,000 award over Israel's continuing genocide in Gaza.
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The Green Man on a building on Lancaster Terrace in Glasgow. Representing spring and rebirth, the Green Man appears on a surprisingly large number of buildings in the city, but this is one of the best I've found so far.
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images of the Palace of Justice in Brussels, Belgium, completed in 1883
