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Black and white photograph of the Mitchell Library , Glasgow, which is a fantastic piece of Glasgow architecture.
Available to buy or licence.
Michael Murray
Digital Fine Artist
Private and corporate art commissions
Nearyy opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, on Argyle Street in the West End of Glasgow.
Designed by Thomas Somers.
From Wikipedia:
"The Kelvin Hall stands on the banks of the River Kelvin, opposite the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the West End of Glasgow. It was designed to complement the municipal display of Kelvingrove Park, in particular the nearby Gallery and Museum. Fronted in red sandstone with a palatial entrance piazza, the immense steel-framed building dates from 1927. . . It was built for Glasgow Corporation in 1926-1927 and was designed by Thomas Somers, Glasgow's Master of Work and City Engineer, assisted by Thomas Gilchrist Gilmour. Thomas Somers also designed the new bridge over the Clyde at Oswald Street, known as the King George V Bridge, which was also declared open by King George V on the same day, 12 July 1927."
Remember Brian Bozworth the football player? He lives on in Glasgow.
Remember Brian Bozworth the football player? He lives on in Glasgow.
Mackintosh completed his design for the GSA in 1896 and the first stage of the building (east end and central entrance block) were built by 1899. However the west end, including these wonderful oriel windows, was not built until 1907-09. The main part of the oriels shown here are windows into the double height library - so they run uninterupted through two complete floors of the building. The upper floor of the library is a balcony.
To get some sense of scale note the life size plaster figures in the bottom corner of each window (thanks for pointing that out Carole:)
[view large to see these figures more clearly]
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BARR: www.buildingsatrisk.org.uk/ref_no/2228
Restoration plans: www.glasgowarchitecture.co.uk/lathallan-house
Thinking of Bella (1994, in bronze) (shown here in part) by Shona Kinloch (b1962).
Image made with the Android Platform application Retro Camera (specifically the Polaroid-mimicking "xolaroid 2000").
Always a pleasure to visit this bullding, Another view here! Autumn in full swing at the mo but a misleading weather forecast resulted in me visiting on a day where virtually no sunshine made an appearance through thick blanket clouds, but was happy with this view. The building is nominated in Scotland's best building awards 2024 and would certainly be a worthy winner. I pretty much love every bit of this building and hope to visit again soon!
Westerplatte is a peninsula in Gdańsk, Poland, located on the Baltic Sea coast mouth of the Dead Vistula (one of the Vistula delta estuaries), in the Gdańsk harbour channel.
From 1926 to 1939 it was the location of a Polish Military Transit Depot (WST), sanctioned within the territory of the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk).
It is famous for the Battle of Westerplatte, which was the first clash between Polish and German forces during the Invasion of Poland and thus the first battle of the European theater of World War II.
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The marble sculpture of "Robert, King of Sicily" (1927) was the work of sculptor G.H.Paulin (1888-1962). Paulin was born in Muckert, Clackmananshire and studied sculpture at Edinburgh College of Art. After winning a travel scholarship he studied and set up a studio in Italy. He worked in Glasgow 1917-1925 and he is reperesented in the city by several other works.
City Union Railway Bridge – 1899
Engineer: William Melville
The City Union Railway Bridge was opened in 1899 and was the first of the permanent Clyde Bridges to have a steel superstructure.
A no photography policy is strictly enforced inside the Mackintosh House.
To see the interiors and the background to the reconstruction of the house see here:
www.hunterian.gla.ac.uk/collections/art_gallery/mac_house...
Bottom right can be seen the Mackintosh house reconstructed as an integral part of the Hunterian Art Gallery (1971-81). The gallery along with the adjacent University Library (1968), which towers up behind, were designed by William Whitfield.