Glasgow is a city in crisis once more. The immediate post-war decades brought little beyond six-lane motorways and the comprehensive redevelopment of vast tracts of the city and yet, enough survived to be appreciated in the 80’s and 90’s, when Glasgow was restored and celebrated once more as one of our great, vibrant regional BritishContinue reading “Blog 87 Glasgow’s Architectural Heritage Crisis”
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Blog 84
The Union Bank of Scotland 1924-27 100 years ago, in 1924, Norman Hird, the dynamic new 39 year-old General Manager of the Union Bank of Scotland announced an architectural competition for the design of their new headquarters building in Glasgow. The winning entry was that of James Miller who, by the 1920’s, had succeeded JJContinue reading “Blog 84”
Blog 83
The New Sculpture One of the joys of researching my latest book on Architectural sculpture was discovering more about the late nineteenth century New Sculpture Movement. Inspired by the works of Alfred Stevens, Aime-Jules Dalou and Frederick Leighton a new generation of sculptors including George Frampton, Alfred Gilbert and Harry Bates brought a new vitalityContinue reading “Blog 83”
Blog 81
My latest book is a paean to the lost art of architectural sculpture in which architects and sculptors collaborated to produce the richly carved and beautifully decorated buildings that make up so much of our rich British architectural heritage. When researching the Glasgow architects JJ Burnet and James Miller for my previous book on theirContinue reading “Blog 81”
John Stewart 