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 86
Fortingall I always enjoy returning to Fortingall, the model village which was created by shipping magnate Sir Donald Currie and architect James MacLaren. Currie made his fortune from the Union Castle Line which plied the route between Southampton and Cape Town in South Africa and he bought the Garth Estate in Glen Lyon in ScotlandContinue reading “Blog 86”
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”
John Stewart 