1892
E.J. Milner Allen
Glasgow
John W. Simpson
Kelvingrove Museum
museums
Simpson & Allen
Random Building
1881 – Glasgow Asylum for the Blind, Scotland
1892 – Kelvingrove Museum Competition, Glasgow
Architect: Simpson & Allen
Selected design in an architectural competition to design a museum and art gallery complex for Glasgow. The gallery was opened in 1901, as the Palace of Fine Arts for the Glasgow International Exhibition held in that year. It is built in a Spanish Baroque style in Dumfriesshire red sandstone, and includes an entire program of architectural sculpture by George Frampton, Francis Derwent Wood and other sculptors.