Art & Industry magazine - July 1938 : Glasgow Empire Exhibition : front cover
The 1938 Empire Exhibition, held at Glasgow, is reviewed in this the July 1938 edition of Art and Industry Magazine. In some ways the article pans quite a lot of the exhibition design but the author, Walter Landauer, did single out the ICI Pavilion seen on the cover and that was designed by Basil Spence, who went on to a notable career in architecture and design. Th eopening page of the article shows one of the highlights of the exhibition - the sadly lost Tait Tower, so called after the Exhibition's chief architect and designer, Thomas Tait, and that stood highlighting the site at Bellahouston Park. This landmark was considered too conspicuous in wartime days and was demolished.
Art & Industry magazine - July 1938 : Glasgow Empire Exhibition : front cover
The 1938 Empire Exhibition, held at Glasgow, is reviewed in this the July 1938 edition of Art and Industry Magazine. In some ways the article pans quite a lot of the exhibition design but the author, Walter Landauer, did single out the ICI Pavilion seen on the cover and that was designed by Basil Spence, who went on to a notable career in architecture and design. Th eopening page of the article shows one of the highlights of the exhibition - the sadly lost Tait Tower, so called after the Exhibition's chief architect and designer, Thomas Tait, and that stood highlighting the site at Bellahouston Park. This landmark was considered too conspicuous in wartime days and was demolished.