#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : Nice to be able to have a brief glimpse inside Hugh & David Barclay’s Abbotsford Place School of 1879. It still has its galleried atrium so have a look at the fretwork ventilator in the skylight with its William Morris-like pomegranate motif 👀👇🥰!

Bit late for #Caturday but we have just brought the kittens down to our boat so this is the first time Luna and Skyla have ventured into the outside world. Wee Poppy is keeping a watchful eye out on proceedings in case there’s any kitty naughtiness 🥰😺🐈!

After yesterday’s announcement from The Glasgow School of Art there’s an excellent article by Rowan Moore in The Guardian about Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art which is worth a read 👀👇🤔👍!
theguardian.com/artanddesign/a…

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : This exquisitely carved piece of ornamental woodwork is a detail from Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s double door front entrance to the Glasgow Art Club. If you look above the Ionic Capital you’ll see twin dolphins which transform into trees…👇👀🥰!

#PlanningStuff in #Glasgow : Not often you get to walk down a new lane in the historic heart of a city but this is the newly opened Brunswick Lane which opens into what will ultimately be the new Candleriggs Square at the southern end of Brunswick Street in the Merchant City 👀👇!

So, with many thanks to stewart paterson I am in today’s glasgowtimes speaking about Glasgow’s city centre, vacant buildings, how all this came about and Glasgow City Heritage Trust’s work to help people get #BuildingsAtRisk back into sustainable reuse 👀👇😊👍!
glasgowtimes.co.uk/news/24303960.…

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : An unusual view south across the Clyde past the octagonal turrets of the St Enoch Bridge, which carries the City Union Line, to the tower of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s Caledonia Road Church whose function as a marker on the city skyline is clear 🤔!

For all fans of the one and only Glasgow Subway - one of the oldest in the World and a great example of #GlasgowHeritage - you’ve got to love this new merchandising initiative from SPTCorporate 👀👇❤️😍🤔!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : First time I’ve spotted the creative & witty way graffiti above ‘The Laurieston’ has been concealed by “historic” adverts created by artist Ciáran Glöbel. The clue is in the middle advert while the end one is a reference to then owner, John Clancy 🤔

“It’s #Caturday and you, human, will do our bidding!”. Luna and Skyla are exerting the powers of Kawaii on me. Resistance is useless…🤦‍♂️😻😹!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : James Miller’s 1929 design for 28-36 Renfield Street - a department store for James Woodhouse & Sons - is a great example of the type of American Classicism produced by Warren & Wetmore, the architects of #NewYork ’s Grand Central Terminal 👀👇🤔🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : For those concerned that the wee #Brutalist Buchanan Street gem, the BOAC Building by architects Gillespie Kidd & Coia, with all its white heat of technology character, was vacant, good news as it looks like it isn’t going to vacant for long 👀👇😅!

Really enjoyed Professor David Archibald’s inaugural lecture with The Tenementals - A History of Glasgow: Seven Theses & Seven Songs, which was in Websters Theatre last night. Great fun + the lyrics are a good example of how to explore intangible aspects of #GlasgowHeritage 🤔🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow : I wonder how much longer will we have these train carriages with Michael Kelly and Jimmy Cosgrove’s cheerfully illustrations of famous Glasgow buildings and Clyde-side scenes. It would be nice to see contemporary equivalents in their replacements 🤔!

Excited to be recording Glasgow City Heritage Trust #IfGlasgowsWallsCouldTalk podcast with After the Garden Festival... in #Glasgow ’s South Rotunda on the River Clyde aka Nardini’s / ‘The Dome of Discovery’ which is now the HQ for Malin Group = check out the view of the Finnieston Crane…👀👇😮🥰!