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Anyone know what this building was. Corner of West George St and Hope St in Glasgow. It's quite imposing. #Glasgow #Scotland #architecture #history
@CloudyMrs looks like it was built speculatively (so for no one client). Architect: John Campbell, 1902.
sources:
157-167 (ODD NOS) HOPE STREET … (LB33053) — http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB33053
https://www.flickr.com/photos/army_arch/10104125634
Builders Journal Nov 28, 1906. "New Buildings in Glasgow" (p.252). Page 588 onwards of this: https://archive.org/details/buildersjournala2419unse/page/588/mode/2up
@scruss @CloudyMrs One additional interesting things about this building. It has a mask of what appears to be Justice (wearing a blindfold) over the West Georeg Streey entrance suggesting it may have originally been intended to be used by solicitors' offices or as a law chambers, but it doesn't ever seem to have been used as such.
@thisismyglasgow @CloudyMrs either way, it's not afraid to show off. It's got all the features
@CloudyMrs Sounds like a question for @thisismyglasgow
@CloudyMrs This is one of Glasgow's mini-skyscrapers built at a time when the city's architects were starting to look to America for inspiration rather than to the Classical cultures of Europe. It was also a time when construction techniques and improvements in elevation technology allowed buildings to routinely be constructed higher than before. However, despite all this, it still has a distinctly Glasgow feel to it, and so it doesn't look out of place amongst the older buildings nearby.
@thisismyglasgow thank you. That's really interesting.