Kelvinside Academy in the West End of Glasgow. Built in the 1870s, it was designed in a Classical Greek style by James Sellars, a talented architect who deserves to be much more widely known than he currently is.

The Italianate clock tower on Wemyss Bay station on the Clyde Coast. Designed by Glasgow architect James Miller and built in 1903, while completely different in style, its outside is just a beautiful as its inside (which I posted a photo of yesterday).

David Hamilton's 1830s classical office building on Queen Street in Glasgow. In Hamilton's design, you can see not only the elements which would go on to be used so successfully a generation later by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, but also those used in the Modern Classical architecture of the 1930s by the likes of James Miller.

A plaque marking the birthplace of Charles Rennie MacKintosh, probably Glasgow's most famous architect, in the Townhead area of the city in June 1868. In the 1890s, MacKintosh returned to the area to design the Saint Martyr's school which would have been visible from the tenement where he was born. While the school remains, the tenement itself is now long gone.

Another of A.B. McDonald's masterpieces, this time in the form of the 1890s Renaissance style People's Palace on Glasgow Green.

McDonald is one of a whole slew of talented architects who did as much (if not more) than Thomson and MacKintosh to shape how Glasgow looks today, but who remain poorly known and overlook by many.

This is the architect James Thomson and you'll see him on quite a few buildings around Glasgow. This is because he regularly put his own face on the buildings he designed!

This one is on the keystone above the entrance to the Pearl Assurance Building on West George Street, but you can also see him on the nearby Liverpool and London and Global Insurance Building and the Connal Building beside Queen Street Station.

The capola at the top of one of the towers on the main building of Glasgow Royal Infirmary. Designed by James Miller and built in the early 1900s.

James Miller is amongst the greatest of Glasgow's architects, but remains poory known in comparison to Alexander 'Greek' Thomson and Charles Rennie MacKintosh.

The magnificant Stewart Memorial Fountain in Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. Built in 1872, it was designed by a young James Sellars and carved by sculptors John Mossman and James Young.

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John Honeyman's 1881 Belhaven-Westbourne Church in the west end of Glasgow. Built in the classical renaissance style, this is a wonderfully impressive structure. It's tucked away from the main roads and so is easily overlooked, but it's well worth seeking out.

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These are two of Glasgow's most influential architects: Alexander 'Greek' Thomson on the left and Charles Rennie MacKintosh on the right. As a bit of Friday fun, how about a game of Six Degrees of Separation to explore the links between the two?

My attempt is below. Happy Friday everyone!