Statues of Trade and Commerce on the corner of probably the ugliest (against some hefty competition) large Victorian building in Glasgow - John Burnet's clunky, clumsy, badly detailed and late 1870s Stock Exchange on Buchanan Street.
The inside was completely gutted of original details and changed from 4 floors to 6 in 1970.
One in every ward maybe? With updates on any action from the local councillor?
87 St Vincent Street has yet more of those industrious putti that are all over the city.
Unknown architect, but in the style of David Rhind, c. 1860.
Detail of the door at 77 St Vincent Street to a building housing offices above shops by the London architect J.J. Stevenson, 1875-78.
Respice Finem is a contraction of "quidquid agis, prudenter agas et respice finem"
("whatever you do, do it wisely and consider the end").
A bit of Carlo Marochetti's 1854 equestrian statue of Victoria in George Square. The restorers have done a great job, the multiple thick layers of black paint all gone & you can now see it is actually bronze.
The pigeons are already at work. Does the council have a regular cleaning plan? I'm not holding my breath...
Vermiculation is a decorative finishing of building stones with irregular grooves intended to resemble worm tracks. It's a type of surface rustication - treatment to make the lower stonework look uncarved, 'natural' or simple, as a contrast to the smooth, expensive 'civilised' stonework higher up.
As usual with affections to simplicity it soon became an excuse to show off the wealth and sophistication of the architect and their patron - by the time this was built by the Glasgow Corporation at the height of the empire, public buildings (this is the offices of the Hygiene Department) could be as fancy as any palace.
Not only it it absolute shite but no planning either. I see a complaint has already been raised by the local community council for enforcement.
Mercury and Mercurius, two of the 1990 glass reinforced polymer statues on the Italian Centre by the King's Sculptor in Ordinary in Scotland, Alexander Stoddart.
Mercury's caduceus has developed a big crack.
Colen Campbell's plan for the house of Daniel Campbell of Shawfield which stood at the bottom of Glassford Street from 1712 to its destruction by a Glasgow mob during the 1725 malt tax riot.
The City Corporation paid Daniel £9k in compensation - with which he bought the island of Islay.
Yet another piece in the press asserting "Scotland’s finest piece of architecture"
NO IT FUCKING ISN'T.
‘Future generations will curse us for its loss’: can nothing save Glasgow School of Art, Mackintosh’s masterpiece?:
Foreman & Cameron designed St Mary's in Calton in 1842 - this is thought to be their proposed design for the cathedral initially planned for the site - how different Calton would have been if this had been built!
https://flourishnewspaper.co.uk/flourish-June2021.html#6-21-calton
Hygeia (Greek Goddess of Cleanliness) on the gable and the arms of the city over the main door of the 1895 Sanitary Chambers of the Corporation of Glasgow (by City Engineer, A.B MacDonald).
The Buildings of Glasgow is quite rude about it ('a horror vacui') but I quite like it.
Someone should get on a damn ladder and clean that lamp.
The small renaissance-palazzo-style building at 85 St Vincent St, built in about 1860, has some nicely disguised chimneys.
Probably 1970s. The dropped orange pine ceilings are no doubt hiding horrors - and the amazing cornicing in the bedroom just makes it all the more suspicious that the rest of it had to be ripped out in the living room...
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/91135152#/?channel=RES_BUY
