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Alternative address of 99 Glassford St. Architect John James Burnet (1857-1938) - son of a famous architect who was also John Burnet. (John Burnet Sr. was responsible for one of my favorite Buchanan Street buildings, the highly decorated Stock Exchange of 1877.)
For many years this was a men's clothing store called Jigsaw. It is now awaiting the next stage of its existence, perhaps as a nightclub.
Taken exactly one week after the rainy shot, at around the same time, at the same location. I prefer the rainy one :)
Planned after the first Glasgow Exhibition in 1888, but not opened until the eve of the second, in 1901.
Designed to hold the varied collections of the City of Glasgow, artistic, historical, scientific, commemorative. Truly an encyclopedia collection, akin to the Smithsonian Collections all under one roof.
And what a roof it is!
Design of the museum was awarded as a result of an international competition. won by a team from London, John William Simpson (1858-1933) and E.J. Milner Allen (1859-1912). The exterior has been called Spanish Baroque - an interesting choice for western Scotland!
Jesuit day school.
The Main Building, with an address of 45 Hill Street, was completed in 1882 to a design of the architect Archibald MacPherson (1851-1927) of Edinburgh.
Steven Holl's building makes a very bold (or foolhardy?) gesture of difference in a very traditional neighborhood of Glasgow. This is after all the Glasgow School of Art, which for many decades could point proudly to its maintenance and preservation of what was generally recognized as Glasgow's most important building.
Now, in the 2020 the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Glasgow School of Art is gone - and any possible reconstruction seems to be at least a decade away. And in its place there is the Steve Holl Glasgow School of Art. Is Holl really doing a good job of integrating his design into the urban fabric?
To be fair, Holl's Reid Building was completed in 2014, before the calamities that befell Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece about the street. And I have no doubt that the Reid building was intended as a counterweight in dialogue as it were to its neighbor - which sadly now is a shell in ruins, wrapped in forlorn scaffolding.
House of Fraser is having a series of events to celebrate it's 160th birthday. I tried to get the full spectacular in the frame, but I just didn't have enough room to move back in the street, & couldn't quite get in the big flamey things either side of the door.
Light shining through window at work. I love how the light moves through the building, there's so much glass that there's plenty opportunity for shots like this. An hour later I went back up those stairs and it had gone.
Originally constructed as the head office of the Scottish Amicable Life Assurance Company. Later it became the home of Glasgow's oldest gentleman's organization, the Western Club.
Architects were the brothers David (1768-1843) and James Hamilton.
David Hamilton has been called the father of the architectural profession in Glasgow. He was also responsible for Hutcheson's Hall and for the Royal Exchange nearby,
Robert Adam designed, in the heart of Merchant City - one of the treasures of Glasgow.
Popular event space for business meetings, weddings, etc.
"The building construction started in 1791 and was completed in 1794. The architect was Robert Adam and the building is the second oldest still used for its original purpose in Glasgow, the oldest is Glasgow Cathedral.
"Sadly, Robert Adam died in 1792, before the Trades Halls were completed and it was his younger brothers, James and William Adam that saw the building finished."
From Wikipedia:
"Robert Adam FRSE FRS FSAScot FSA FRSA (1728 – 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death.
"In 1754, he left for Rome, spending nearly five years on the continent studying architecture under Charles-Louis Clérisseau and Giovanni Battista Piranesi. On his return to Britain he established a practice in London, where he was joined by his younger brother James. Here he developed the "Adam Style", and his theory of "movement" in architecture, based on his studies of antiquity and became one of the most successful and fashionable architects in the country. Adam held the post of Architect of the King's Works from 1761 to 1769.
"Robert Adam was a leader of the first phase of the classical revival in England and Scotland from around 1760 until his death. He influenced the development of Western architecture, both in Europe and in North America. Adam designed interiors and fittings as well as houses. Much of his work consisted of remodelling existing houses, as well as contributions to Edinburgh's townscape and designing romantic pseudo-mediaeval country houses in Scotland."
From Wikipedia:
"St Aloysius' College is a selective fee-paying, private, Jesuit day school in Glasgow, Scotland. It was founded in 1859 by the Jesuits, who previously staffed the college, and named after Saint Aloysius Gonzaga. St Aloysius' College is a co-educational school with a kindergarten, junior school, and senior school."
From the school website:
"Designed by Glasgow architect firm Elder and Cannon and praised as “benchmark in modern school design”, our award-winning Junior School building opened in August 1998. A contrast of old and new, the school is nestled between our Convent building and an original tenement block but is sympathetic to the scale and shape of the neighbouring buildings. Set over five storeys, the modern facility is a light, airy yet traditional teaching environment where classrooms surround an open-plan central atrium. Each of the fourteen classrooms are equipped with the latest technology for enhanced teaching, with separate classrooms for specialist subjects such as art, languages, and science. The Junior School also has its own library and Manresa Room, a designated space where our young people can pray or participate in quiet reflection."
Make the rain/Kissing with confidence
[It is plural.]
Architect James Thomson (1835-1905), designed for Standard Life Assurance.
Very Georgian
From Wikipedia:
"The Tobacco Merchant's House (also Baillie Craig's House) is an 18th-century villa at 42 Miller Street in Glasgow's Merchant City and the last surviving Virginia tobacco merchant's house in Glasgow. It was built by John Craig in 1775. The building was extensively renovated in 1994-5 and now serves as the offices of the Scottish Civic Trust.
The two-storey-and-attic, five-bay simplified Palladian town house was originally built by the Glasgow architect John Craig for himself. He purchased the land from Robert Hastie, an American merchant. Craig was the son of a timber merchant and listed himself as ' 'architect to His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales'.[1] Craig sold the house to the tobacco importer Robert Findlay of Easterhill in 1782. At that time Miller Street was the location of the private homes of a number of prosperous Glasgow merchants."