Favourite Building in your home town/city

[Bully Wee Villa]

A short walk away.

[scotfree]

 

I've always liked brutalist architecture. Hutchesontown, Glasgow. No longer there.

 

[Enigma]

Always liked the house next to the dean bridge.

[MEADOWXI]

When you walk through the Mall in Irvine from the railway station to the cross, it another 70s soulless shopping centres,

Photo 1 the Mall at the Bridgegate entrance (end nearest the Cross),

Photo 2 the Mall from the riverside,  the cross is off to the right and the railway station to the left,

Photo 3 the bridge they pulled down to build the Mall, church in the backround is the church in the left in the first photo. (Trinity Church)

[Boghead ranter]

10 hours ago, J_Stewart said:

 

 

15 hours ago, Boghead ranter said:

Overton House

Same architect maybe?

[KnightswoodBear]

8 hours ago, The Golden God said:

 

Mind they were supposed to be building more flats along there and a shopping centre, cinema, restaurants and bars etc, now its one wee bit of flats and f**k all else. 

The garage I used to take my car to was bought with a compulsory purchase order for the sprawling residential and nightlife area that was to accompany the flats.  It's still lying as an empty piece of land.

[throbber]

5 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said:

The garage I used to take my car to was bought with a compulsory purchase order for the sprawling residential and nightlife area that was to accompany the flats.  It's still lying as an empty piece of land.

The Granary was the most hideously ugly building I have ever seen in my life. 

[locheedfcno1]

[KnightswoodBear]

28 minutes ago, throbber said:

The Granary was the most hideously ugly building I have ever seen in my life. 

You're the most hideously ugly building I've ever seen in my life.

[throbber]

1 minute ago, KnightswoodBear said:

You're the most hideously ugly building I've ever seen in my life.

You can't seriously suggest it wasn't time for it to come down. 

[bob the tank]

When you walk through the Mall in Irvine from the railway station to the cross, it another 70s soulless shopping centres,
Photo 1 the Mall at the Bridgegate entrance (end nearest the Cross),
Photo 2 the Mall from the riverside,  the cross is off to the right and the railway station to the left,
Photo 3 the bridge they pulled down to build the Mall, church in the backround is the church in the left in the first photo. (Trinity Church)

When I moved to Irvine in 1972 the whole town was black and white and still in the 18th century

[Sweet Pete]

1 hour ago, KnightswoodBear said:

You're the most hideously ugly building I've ever seen in my life.

I'm sure I heard years ago that that building was the largest built with red brick. I'm unsure how accurate that is, but as a kid I was always struck by the huge scale of it, and it was indeed all built from individual bricks rather than larger block, an unusual method.

[KnightswoodBear]

5 minutes ago, Sweet Pete said:

I'm sure I heard years ago that that building was the largest built with red brick. I'm unsure how accurate that is, but as a kid I was always struck by the huge scale of it, and it was indeed all built from individual bricks rather than larger block, an unusual method.

I remember being told some fact about it being the largest building in the world of it's type as well.  I also remember that Partick and the surrounding areas were supposedly infested with rats when they took it down.

[mac.i]

 

Carnegie Hall

 

 

City Chambers

 

 

Abbott House

 

 

 

Dunfermline Library and Museum - Scotland's Building of the Year

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Sweet Pete]

Not strictly my hometown, but Glasgow Cathedral is a great building:

Did some work recently in Turnbull Street and the building not only looks great from outside, but has an incredibly surprising inside-outside interior courtyard:

Also did some work in this cracker in Morrison Street recently, which is as grandiose inside as it is outside:

[KnightswoodBear]

 

[KnightswoodBear]

7 minutes ago, Melanius Mullarkey said:

Outstanding.

Even without the "newer" bit added on it was a colossal place. 

[throbber]

10 minutes ago, KnightswoodBear said:

Even without the "newer" bit added on it was a colossal place. 

Fair play, it looks great there. 

[Darren]

In my local vicinity these days, among the mansions I do not live in, Pollokshields Burgh Hall is a bonnie wee building.

My flat looks on to the Gurdwara, one of the more interesting views I've enjoyed. It looks really cool when it is lit up at night and was sensational at Diwali!

Church on the Hill is a pretty impressive building for an out of town boozer (although I prefer the Allison Arms).

[Sweet Pete]

I grew up in a mixture of a very old town and a new town, one of which has great architecture due to it's age and one of which has little great architecture as it's been in a state of near constant building and rebuilding since it was founded. My childhood home has some belters.

Tain clock tower:

Kenneth Murray monument, seen both from the edge of Rose Street gardens and also from the High Street:

And the suspension bridge, which we had a great time bouncing on as kids. It was Victorian and very, very rickety so responded quite dramatically to kids jumping on it. I suppose we never truly believed that we'd possibly fall into the River tain below. They tried reinforcing it in recent years. I think they closed it as a dangerous structure recently too possibly: