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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."
Wikipedia:
"The structure was commissioned to serve as the city and county buildings for the City of Glasgow[a] and Lanarkshire respectively. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on 18 November 1842. The southern section, forming the city and county buildings, and the central section, forming the Merchant's House, were designed by Clarke & Bell in the neoclassical style, built in ashlar stone and were completed in 1844. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage facing onto the Wilson Street; the central section was formed by a stylobate on which was placed a full-height hexastyle portico with Ionic order columns supporting an entablature, a frieze and a pediment."
Now the prime occupant is "Citation" - a night club and event venue which is a popular space for weddings!
George Bell Sr. (1814-1887) was a talented architect active in Glasgow for five important decades in the 19th century. His partner was William Clarke (d. 1878). Bell Sr.'s son George Bell II (1854-1915) was also an architect active in Glasgow.
If it looks truncated, it's because originally there was meant to be a pair of these structures balancing one another out. Becuase of the decline in Glasgow's economic fortunes - which accelerated after World War I - only one of the two was constructed.
Graham Henderson (1882-1963) is the architect.
In front is the 1921 replica of the traditional "Mercat" [or Market] Cross which had been on this site since Medieval times.
From Wikipedia:
"A mercat cross is the Scots name for the market cross found frequently in Scottish cities, towns and villages where historically the right to hold a regular market or fair was granted by the monarch, a bishop or a baron. It therefore served a secular purpose as a symbol of authority, and was an indication of a burgh's relative prosperity. Historically, the term dates from the period before 1707, when the Kingdom of Scotland was an independent state, but it has been applied loosely to later structures built in the traditional architectural style of crosses or structures fulfilling the function of marking a settlement's focal point. Historical documents often refer simply to "the cross" of whichever town or village is mentioned. Today, there are around 126 known examples of extant crosses in Scotland, though the number rises if later imitations are added.
"The cross was the place around which market stalls would be arranged, and where 'merchants' (Scots for shopkeepers as well as wholesale traders) would gather to discuss business. It was also the spot where state and civic proclamations would be publicly read by the "bellman" (town crier). For example, in 1682 a town guild in Stirling was accorded the privilege of making a proclamation, to be "intimat at the Mercat Croce that no person pretend ignorance." To this day, royal proclamations are still ceremonially read in public at the Mercat Cross in Edinburgh, including the calling of a general election and succession of a new monarch.
"The cross was also the communal focal point of public events such as civic ceremonials, official rejoicings, and public shamings and punishments, including executions. . . Despite the name, the typical mercat cross is not usually cruciform, or at least has not been since the iconoclasm of the Scottish Reformation. The cross atop the shaft may have been replaced with a small statue, such as a royal unicorn or lion, symbols of the Scottish monarchy, or a carved stone displaying the arms of the royal burgh, or, in the cases of ecclesiastical burghs or burghs of barony, the bishop's or feudal superior's coat-of-arms."
Also 2-58 Albion St. This very large block originally housed City Council Offices; now it is mostly apartments.
Designed by the firm of Thomson and Sandilands. John Thomson (1859-1933) was the eldest son of the great Alexander "Greek" Thomson. Robert D. Sandilands (1855-1913) studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Early 20th century building, designed by the historic firm of Honeyman, Keppie, & Mackintosh.
John Honeyman (1831-1914) and John Keppie (1862-1945) were the prime partners - Keppie, notably, was 30 years younger than the senior partner!
Keppie studied for a year at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh joined their firm in 1889, and eventually rose to be partner.
in the morning light
Wikipedia:
"Following a design competition, the building was designed by the Scottish architect William Young in the Victorian style and construction started in 1882. The building was inaugurated by Queen Victoria in August 1888 and the first council meeting held within the chambers took place in October 1889. . .
The new City Chambers initially housed Glasgow Town Council from 1888 to 1895, when that body was replaced by Glasgow Corporation.[9] It remained the corporation's headquarters until it was replaced by Glasgow District Council under the wider Strathclyde Regional Council in May 1975. It then remained the Glasgow District Council headquarters until the abolition of the Strathclyde Region led to the formation of Glasgow City Council in April 1996."