tamthebam Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 For those who want to get right into things there is this series of books, although some are a bit out of date now (this one is from 1990) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 (edited) The Victoria Tower - Greenock. One of the tallest buildings in Scotland, it was designed by the same architect who designed Glasgow City Chambers. Aware of this fact, the wise councillors of Greenock insisted that the Victoria Tower should be built half a metre higher than the tallest point of Glasgow City Chambers, to permanently demonstrate the Clyde Riviera's superiority to that shanty town upriver. The greatest and pettiest middle finger gesture in the history of Scotland. Glorious. Edited October 26, 2021 by vikingTON 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duszek Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 Park Church Tower is brilliantly odd. Bologna transplanted to Glasgow. Easy to let your gaze wander there, rather than the dross on the pitch. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartsOfficialMoaner Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 6 hours 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. You bide in my cousin's old flat. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 St Mary's episcopal cathedral, some of the detailed stuff is incredible. Another episcopal Church (big team found)5 minutes down the road from me, the quirky St Mark's. You also can't do art deco in Edinburgh without mentioning the White House in Craigmillar. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Angelo Barksdale Posted October 26, 2021 Share Posted October 26, 2021 The Dean Village has some nice looking stuff. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Milne's Primary School, Fochabers. Find a posher looking cooncil primary school and I'll be impressed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boostin' Kev Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williemillersmoustache Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Always liked the Blade Runner feel of the former Shell offices in Aberdeen and Kentigern House in Glasgow. Admit they look a bit shit and out of place now but when growing up they looked like the future had landed. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alta-pete Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 12 minutes ago, williemillersmoustache said: Always liked the Blade Runner feel of the former Shell offices in Aberdeen and Kentigern House in Glasgow. Admit they look a bit shit and out of place now but when growing up they looked like the future had landed. Kentigern House was designed for the MoD. Don’t know if true or not but it was always said at the time that the design was to limit damage from any external bomb blast and that it has as many floors below ground as above. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEADOWXI Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 10 hours ago, johnnydun said: You bide in my cousin's old flat. Som of the best views in Aberdeen, the front over the city and the back over the harbour 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RiG Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Marischal College in Aberdeen is pretty stunning although I think it looked better before they cleaned it up. And I always loved the University of Aberdeen campus especially New Kings... Conversely, the John Lewis building is utterly howling and the UoA Zoology building looks like something out of soviet Russia. It was apparently used in some Apple TV series about The Cold War 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shandon Par Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Always like a tower house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boghead ranter Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 2 minutes ago, RiG said: 3 minutes ago, RiG said: Marischal College in Aberdeen is pretty stunning although I think it looked better before they cleaned it up. Statue of Jacob Rees-Mogg there. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnydun Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, MEADOWXI said: Som of the best views in Aberdeen, the front over the city and the back over the harbour Aye, it's a cracking flat like. Right in the centre of town too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
101 Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 1 hour ago, Peter Grant said: Always like a tower house. Inside must be like a cave, you do wonder why they even bothered with windows at all. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibernianification Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 13 hours ago, HeartsOfficialMoaner said: I used to live in the flats overlooking here. Always used to think it would be a great location for the final shoot-out in a gangster film! Being gradually dismantled now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 2 hours ago, alta-pete said: Kentigern House was designed for the MoD. Don’t know if true or not but it was always said at the time that the design was to limit damage from any external bomb blast and that it has as many floors below ground as above. I know somebody who worked there - I'd heard that rumour too, but they said there's only the one basement level. Apparently the blast thing's correct though, and it's designed so any external blast would travel upwards and limit damage. A lot of the corridors supposedly have staggers in them the way WW1 trenches did for much the same reason. Back to art deco, and the Luma tower out Govan/Cardonald Way that you always see from the motorway. Think it's flats now. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiegoDiego Posted October 27, 2021 Share Posted October 27, 2021 Inside must be like a cave, you do wonder why they even bothered with windows at all.They're for shooting people from. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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