gkneil Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 St Peter's Seminary outside of Cardross 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 28, 2021 Author Share Posted October 28, 2021 3 minutes ago, gkneil said: St Peter's Seminary outside of Cardross On another thread I posted pics of this in its heyday. It was magnificent. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 2 hours ago, gkneil said: St Peter's Seminary outside of Cardross I like how it is quite remote and surrounded by trees. It's almost as if they didn't want anyone to know what might be going on in it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Florentine_Pogen Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 ^^^^^Thomas Cromwell said something similar. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 This is a building that’s easily missed as you come out of Glasgow Central, but I always make a point of looking up at it as I pass. It deserves to house something of a higher standing than a Co-op. The Ca’d’Oro or House of Gold.Was gutted in a fire in 1987 which I can remember as I was still limping through my degree up at Gilmorehill at the time.Used to have a Mansard roof which was destroyed along with the interior but the cast iron frame survived. Good that it survived as it is a beautiful building.The Egyptian Halls Building just a bit further down Union Street is another Greek Thomson beauty although shamefully empty and currently still rotting away. It would be a standout building in many other cities. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 The Ca’d’Oro or House of Gold.Was gutted in a fire in 1987 which I can remember as I was still limping through my degree up at Gilmorehill at the time.Used to have a Mansard roof which was destroyed along with the interior but the cast iron frame survived. Good that it survived as it is a beautiful building.The Egyptian Halls Building just a bit further down Union Street is another Greek Thomson beauty although shamefully empty and currently still rotting away. It would be a standout building in many other cities.Window cleaner’s nightmare 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frosty Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 The Ca’d’Oro or House of Gold.Was gutted in a fire in 1987 which I can remember as I was still limping through my degree up at Gilmorehill at the time.Used to have a Mansard roof which was destroyed along with the interior but the cast iron frame survived. Good that it survived as it is a beautiful building.The Egyptian Halls Building just a bit further down Union Street is another Greek Thomson beauty although shamefully empty and currently still rotting away. It would be a standout building in many other cities.Window cleaner’s nightmare 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gibby82 Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 19 hours ago, invergowrie arab said: The sheltered houses in Langshaw Road, Dryburgh in Dundee have always appealed to me. The same architect did Kirkton Community and Ardler community centres. As weird as they look internally they are ad nothing to the Escher nightmare of their internal configurations I have a vague memory of said architect featuring in the Law Killers for offing his wife or something? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red23 Posted October 28, 2021 Share Posted October 28, 2021 (edited) 9 hours ago, gkneil said: St Peter's Seminary outside of Cardross if only the walls could speak...... Edited October 28, 2021 by red23 -1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted October 29, 2021 Author Share Posted October 29, 2021 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RawB93 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 I've always liked Chancelot Mill at the bottom of Leith. Also the old Meadowbank stand. Thistle Court in Aberdeen. And as much as it pains me also Bell St Polis station in Dundee. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 This thread made me look up some stuff on Scottish architecture and I found that there's a list of the key Scottish modern monuments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoCoMoMo_Key_Scottish_Monuments I'd never thought of the Pathfoot building as modernist but I guess it is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detournement Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 Some Yank architecture. 4500 students living in the one building which has only two entrances. 94% of the dorm rooms don't have windows. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 21 minutes ago, Detournement said: Some Yank architecture. 4500 students living in the one building which has only two entrances. 94% of the dorm rooms don't have windows. Munger is a partner of Warren Buffet which will probably delight you. This is quite fun from about 20 minutes in. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1U-GdZn7AVtnDj8C6JDw7vCiYTOkXMYQA/view 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milton75 Posted October 29, 2021 Share Posted October 29, 2021 3 hours ago, ICTChris said: This thread made me look up some stuff on Scottish architecture and I found that there's a list of the key Scottish modern monuments. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoCoMoMo_Key_Scottish_Monuments I'd never thought of the Pathfoot building as modernist but I guess it is. That list is going to keep me going for a good while. I can't believe I worked in EK for a good 5 years and never saw the Dollan Baths. The Anderston Centre is an interesting one to me. I remember when I was young we went on a bus to Glasgow and it stopped there. The place had its own shops (I think even a music shop), its own bus station, and seemed pretty busy. By the end of the 80s it was a failed experiment it seems, although I understand that it's now a pretty decent place to live. I guess they wanted a cheap version of the Barbican, and if they'd ended up with anything like that it would have been amazing. I ended up googling stuff about it. Found some pretty cool pics. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Rider Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 12 hours ago, milton75 said: That list is going to keep me going for a good while. I can't believe I worked in EK for a good 5 years and never saw the Dollan Baths. The Anderston Centre is an interesting one to me. I remember when I was young we went on a bus to Glasgow and it stopped there. The place had its own shops (I think even a music shop), its own bus station, and seemed pretty busy. By the end of the 80s it was a failed experiment it seems, although I understand that it's now a pretty decent place to live. I guess they wanted a cheap version of the Barbican, and if they'd ended up with anything like that it would have been amazing. I ended up googling stuff about it. Found some pretty cool pics. Great pictures. I remember that I used to get a bus from the Anderson Bus Station to the south side when I started working. I vaguely remember going to the shopping centre with my parents when we bought a Texas Instruments computer from a shop there too. It was my dad’s go to area to park when he headed into town. He knew the area before it was rebuilt as he had a pal who stayed at the bottom of Douglas Street. It was considered a rough area then. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted October 30, 2021 Share Posted October 30, 2021 Anderston... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 I went for a walk yesterday and found this strange looking building in (or just past I'm not sure exactly) Partick: Seems to be newish flats painted to look like a Bavarian townhouse from the 1700s. Also looks ridiculous with the different roof heights and the parapets on either end. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH33 Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 2 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I went for a walk yesterday and found this strange looking building in (or just past I'm not sure exactly) Partick: Seems to be newish flats painted to look like a Bavarian townhouse from the 1700s. Also looks ridiculous with the different roof heights and the parapets on either end. I'm sure they were there twenty years ago when I was at Jordan hill. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarrbridgeSaintee Posted April 25, 2023 Share Posted April 25, 2023 I've always loved the Mitchell Library 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.