Architecture of Glasgow

1901 – Unbuilt Design for Royal Infirmary, Glasgow

Architect: H. Percy Adams

Unbuilt entry in competition to design a new Royal Infirmary.

1901 – Design for Glasgow Royal Infirmary

Architect: Hippolyte J. Blanc

Entry in architectural competition for a new hospital for Glasgow.

1903 – Govanhill Library, Glasgow

Architect: James R. Rhind

Built in 1906 as one of Glasgow’s Carnegie Libraries,

1903 – Willow Tea Rooms, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow

Architect: Charles Rennie Mackintosh

In 1903, Mackintosh got the commision to design new tearooms in Sauchiehall Street in 1903.

1904 – ‘Kelmscott’, Pollokshields, Glasgow

Architect: Alexander Nisbet Paterson

‘Kelmscott’ is a skilfully fused building of the fashionable Arts and Crafts style with the familiar Scots Baronial style to seen throught West Pollokshields.

1904 – Warehouses for the City Improvement Trust, Nelson St., Glasgow

Architect: Thomson & Sandilands

Not constructed as illustrated. “The site of this building was one of the many slum areas which the Improvements Trust of the City of Glasgow acquired for the purpose of pulling down and erecting new buildings and widening the thoroughfares of the city.