scottsdad Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 What's your poison? Brutalist? Scottish baronial? Art Nouveau? Gothic Revival? Art Deco? Something else? All with pics of course. Why not kick off with the home of Sir Walter Scott, Abbotsford House... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Pal sent me this today, quite interesting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cb_diamond Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Quite enjoy some AGT neo classical architecture. The St Vincent St church is a great looking thing. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 I'm working here the now, Aldourie Castle, site for the Rockness music festival bitd. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeWhoWalksBehindTheRows Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Always had a soft spot for Culloden House having lived just over the road from it as a boy. Had a derelict stables( now flats) a dovecote, an ice house and a barn which is now a church. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Chris, Argyle House is a first class abortion. Wouldn't even describe it as architecture. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 In Paisley High Street stands The Thomas Coats Memorial Church, the largest baptist Church in Europe and is Gothic Revivalist, apparently. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ronaldo Jeremy Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) 5 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said: In Paisley High Street stands The Thomas Coats Memorial Church, the largest baptist Church in Europe and is Gothic Revivalist, apparently. Amazing building. My parents got married in there. It's now being turned into a venue and it looks like they're making a decent job of it thankfully. Edited October 26, 2021 by Ronaldo Jeremy 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 I was just joking with those suggestions obvious. Argyle House must be the worst building in Edinburgh, not just in itself but it's location. An utter blot. I like Art Deco architecture, some good examples in Edinburgh and Glasgow St Andrew's House Dominion Cinema Ravelston gardens Even the Maybury casino is a lovely building, shame it's a bit of a sleazy establishment now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 This is the view from my living room window, The Townhouse on Union Street in Aberdeen, the 2nd clock in the middle is Tolbooth and the building ends in a former bank that is now a Wetherspoons on the corner of Union St and King St. The pub is called Archibald Simpsons, he is the architect credited with Aberdeen being the Granite City and many buildings in the city. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Steele Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Another example of Gothic Revival is Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill House. Some place, some boi. His Gothic novel Castle of Otranto is quite a book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 5 minutes ago, ICTChris said: I was just joking with those suggestions obvious. Argyle House must be the worst building in Edinburgh, not just in itself but it's location. An utter blot. I like Art Deco architecture, some good examples in Edinburgh and Glasgow St Andrew's House Dominion Cinema Ravelston gardens Even the Maybury casino is a lovely building, shame it's a bit of a sleazy establishment now Add to that the few Art Deco houses in Leven which never fail to make me smile sat amongst the traditional Scottish homes 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) The Russell Institute at the junction of New St and Causeyside St in Paisley. But in 1927 in the Art Deco style it served as a children's clinic and latterly as a family planning centre. It closed in the mid 2010s for an extensive refurbishment and is now a "Skills and Employability Hub." Edited October 26, 2021 by Arch Stanton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch Stanton Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) That picture is a bit shit, here's a better one. Edited October 26, 2021 by Arch Stanton 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 43 minutes ago, MEADOWXI said: This is the view from my living room window, The Townhouse on Union Street in Aberdeen, the 2nd clock in the middle is Tolbooth and the building ends in a former bank that is now a Wetherspoons on the corner of Union St and King St. The pub is called Archibald Simpsons, he is the architect credited with Aberdeen being the Granite City and many buildings in the city. Inverness Town House was built 4 years later with a different architect, but I think he might have cribbed a bit. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 26, 2021 Author Share Posted October 26, 2021 Donaldson's college in Edinburgh 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Donaldson's is such a beautiful building, sadly it wasn't really fit for purpose as a school in the modern day. I have a relative who worked there and there were a lot of challenges to the building. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beefybake Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) Art Deco. The Beresford In Sauchiehall St, Glasgow.., in the later Streamline Moderne style. Pic 1, when it was battleship grey, and known as Baird Hall, a student residence hall. I was there in 1971. Pic 2, now restored to how it looked when opened in the 1930's as The Beresford Hotel. Edited October 27, 2021 by beefybake 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philpy Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Kirkcaldy fire station. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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