1892 – Kelvingrove Museum Competition, Glasgow
Entry for competition to design a new museum and art gallery for Glasgow.
Entry for competition to design a new museum and art gallery for Glasgow.
As published in The Building News,
Selected design in an architectural competition to design a museum and art gallery complex for Glasgow.
Unexecuted design for an architectural competition to design a museum and art gallery for Glasgow.
This grand sandstone building, with its distinctive four-face clock tower, was erected in 1891,
Architect-builder John Campbell McKellar (1859–1941) built much of upper-middle class Hyndland area of Glasgow with Duncanson &
The site was bought in the early 1890s,and plans for a new hospital were commissioned to designs by George Washington Browne.
This has been described as a “little orange-red Franco-Flemish”
The building is constructed in the “Arts and Crafts” style which was much in vogue in that period.
Demolished to make way for an office building in the 1960s,