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Badly worded title, sorry. Anyway, what are your favourite three old Glasgow buildings, and why do you like them ?
It doesn't have to be architectural merit, it could be an interesting history, event, or just purely personal reasons, the choice is yours

Oh, and they must be still standing

AlanM · Posted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:21 pm Post subject:

1. Kelvin Hall
Brings back many childhood memories of the Circus and Carnival, the elephants in the back corner, the lights the music, and the smells.

2. Kelvingrove Museum
Again bringing back memories of a bygone age, I liked the old cases with the exhibits neatly displayed and labelled it seemed to never change. Although I like the refurbished Kelvingrove its not a patch on the original.

3. Mitchell Library
Lovely architecture and an excellent resource freely available, whats not to like.
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Ronnie · Bag of chips Joined: 26 Sep 2007 Posts: 102 Location: G12

High Church - fabulous Gothic architecture on a sloping site, and a link right back to the foundation of the city in c AD 500. Built, no doubt, on the site of an earlier pagan place of worship.

Royal Exchange - fashioned by David Hamilton from the Cunningham Mansion and re-invented for a new generation as GOMA. Has a wonderful segmental arch on the west frontage, an architectural feature that is sacred to Isis.

Glasgow Necropolis - imagined by James Ewing and Laurence Hill and laid out by David Hamilton as the Valhalla of Victorian Glasgow.

Guided tours offered freely ...
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Eddie Gallaghers Tash · Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:13 am Post subject:

Maybe not my all time faves but certainly very interesting buildings:

The telephone exchange on Highburgh Road - Always loved the windows in that place and though it would be an amazing place to live. Then they turned it into posh flats. Such a simple shape but looks great.

Tenements near Broomhill Shopping Centre - Place opposite the highflats with the very ornate stonework on the front, between the shopping centre and the junction of Crow Road / Clarance Drive. So different to other buildings got to wonder why and what was the otherside of the road before they built the high rises.

Whiteinch swimming baths - Some of the stonework on the front of that building was amazing, now sadly, most of it has succumbed to the bulldozers. Used to almost drown there weekly as a kid and there always seemed to be a jobbie in the pool. :)

Len Scaps · Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 10:45 pm Post subject:

The Mitchell

The Luma Factory/Tower

The Lion Chambers

The Lion Chambers are probably my favourite purely for the story of their construction
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cybers · Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:55 am Post subject:

Whilst 3 is a little constrictive i will give this a bash...

St Vincent St Church ... The Greek Thomson one... Always been curious to its innards but as it is still a functioning place of worship i will need to keep wondering.

The Mitchell ... As stated before whats not to like.

The Peoples Palace... A museum with a difference is probably the best way to describe this place. The restored terracota fountain only adds to the attraction...

But if it the list were to include goners then the Old FOLLIES outshone them all for obvious reasons...
Best fiver ever spent on a saturday night...

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escotregen · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:34 pm Post subject:

1. St Vincent Street Greek Thomson Church (Cybers you must make sure that one day you see the insides… you are going to be gobsmacked at what you find). A building that represents the culture and the glory of Glasgow when it was at it height – a true bourgeois city (forget all that Red Clydeside mythology)

2. Glasgow Necropolis. Magnificent fade glory, with a history of Glasgow and Empire that goes way back before event the Greek Thomson period.

3. Really a collective oddity – almost any of late Georgian or late Victorian town houses the likes of the ones you get off the Byes Road, or even Dennistoun. If you can find one that is largely intact as I managed a few years ago they are quite astounding in the quality of interior design and intended opulence.

… and of course many more I could have mentioned Egyptian Halls, Pollock House, Provands Lordship, the NTS’s tenement flat, Procurator Fiscal Society (correct name?) building in Nelson Mandela Place, Garnethill synagogue etc. etc. etc.)
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Alex Glass · Posted: Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:18 pm Post subject:

AlanM · Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 7:14 am Post subject:

There were plenty of 'c's in Pollok last time I was there

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