The former Schaw Hospital in Bearsden just outside Glasgow. Constructed by the Schaw family and gifted to Glasgow Royal Infirmary as a convalescence home in 1895, this Tudor Gothic style was designed by James Thomson. It's now been converted into residential flats and is known as Schaw House.
With its distinctive three peaks, I love the outline that the Sandyford Henderson Memorial Church, just off Argyle Street, makes against the sky. Designed in an Early Decorated Gothic style by J.T. Emmett and compeleted by John Honeyman, it was built in the 1850s.
Sculptures on the front of the former Govan Press building on Govan Road in Glasgow. These are: Johannes Gutenberg, who introduced movable type printing to Europe; Robert Burns, Scotland's national poet; Mr and Mrs Cossar, who ran the Govan Press; Walter Scott, one of Scotland's first novelists; William Caxton, who introduced the printing press to Britain.
I love this Art Nouveau style version of the Glasgow Coat of Arms on one of the buildings of the old Lambhill Street School in the Kinning Park area of the city.
Polychromatic brickwork on the former Kingston Engine Works on Milnpark Street in Kinning Park, Glasgow. Built in 1866 for Smith Brothers and Co.
Love this sculpture by Francis Derwent Wood, Johan Keller and Richard Ferris over the entrance to the former British Linen Bank building on Govan Road in Glasgow.
Love the font and the craquelure on this sign painted by one of the doors on the former Our Lady and St Margaret's Primary School in Kinning Park in Glasgow
A lone Georgian townhouse on Charlotte Street in the East End of Glasgow surrounded by modern buildings. This house was built around 1790 and is attributed to the school of Robert Adam, one of Scotland's early Neo-Classical architects.
The ruined portico of Mansion House in Elder Park in Glasgow. Built in 1791, Mansion House was originally sited on the Linthouse Estate and was thought to be have been designed by Robert Adam.
The former Logan and Johnston School of Domestic Economy on James Street in Glasgow. Designed in a Scots Renaissance style and built in 1893, it provided training and education for destitute girls.
John Thomson's Classical style tenement building at Bridgeton Cross on the East End of Glasgow. It was built in 1871, meaning it's probably the oldest remaining building at these crossroads.
The rather fabulous dome and finial at the top of John Cummingham's 1896 Bridgeton Cross Mansions tenement building in the east end of Glasgow.
Free College Church Mission Hall on North Woodside Road in Glasgow. Built in the 1870s in a Gothic style, this hall is where the Boys Brigade was founded in 1883, making it the oldest uniformed youth organisation in the world.
The simple, but stunning Landressy Street facade of John Gordon's 1894 Glasgow Savigs Bank building in Bridgeton, Glasgow. I just love those chimneys and the scalloping along the roofline!
Love this double villa on Lorraine Road in the West End of Glasgow. It was designed by David Barclay and was built in 1899.
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The original residents were Thomas Sawers, a fishmonger, poulterer and ice merchant (in the house on the left), and John MacDonald, a tobacco and snuff manufacturer (in the one of the right).
Love this Scottish Baronial style double villa on Buckingham Street in the West End of Glasgow. Built in 1886, they were designed by the wonderfully named Horatio Kelson Bromhead (no relation to the equally wonderfully named Gonville Bromhead of Rorke's Drift fame).
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Interestingly, the mask of Father Time bears an uncanny resemblence to John Burnet Senior, the father of the building's architect John James Burnet Jnr.
The clock above the main entrance of Charing Cross Mansions in Glasgow sculpted by W.B. Rhind. On either side of the clock are figures representing Spring (left) and Autumn (right), while above it are figures of Commerce and Industry. The clock face itself is surrounded by Zodiac signs, and below it the bearded face of Father Time emerges from the stone work. All in all, a rather beautiful clock filled with a lot of symbolism.
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A modern gushet tenement at the junction between Argyle Street and Sauchiehall Street in Glasgow. As newer buildings go, I think this is quite a good one as it maintains the roofline with its neighbouring older tenements, it manages to avoid the boxy feel you get with way too many new-builds, and it has features such as a corner tower and bay windows which are in keeping with Glaswegian architectural traditions.
