Niall Murphy

Really enjoyed @MrAbercrombie’s walking tour around Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s masterpieces and influences last night + some of us unexpectedly wound up in the Pot Still for a drink afterwards. 36 years in #Glasgow and the first time I’ve been this legendary pub 🍻🤦‍♂️😂!

More images of the Argyle Street Avenue emerging 👀👇! Though it’ll improve the flow of public transport in #Glasgow city centre, it’s going to be interesting to see how people react to a bus lane appearing along the pedestrian section of the street 🤔! heraldscotland.com/news/25319462.…

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: The leaning tower of Partick glowing in the sunlight. This is the Francois Premier style French Renaissance bell tower with bracketted balcony to William Leiper’s Partick Burgh Hall of 1872. Leiper spent two years studying in Paris. It shows 🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: This is architects Hugh & David Barclay’s gently curving Hamilton Terrace West tenement of 1875 which is on Peel Street below Partickhill. In its mature landscape it is the definition of leafy Westend. It is a charming and great Glasgow tenement 🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: The side entrance to the Scottish Legal Life Building on Bothwell Street was open and it’s a mini #ArtDeco classical gem. Check out the bronze details including a highly stylised Law Lord’s wig containing a patriotic saltire and American capitals 🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: It’s a nice touch that the new @paesano_pizza in Shawlands has incorporated the WH Dinwoodie #ghostsign into their shopfront fascia while including a pizza chef uniform clothesline mural. It certainly lifts this classic Glasgow corner tenement 🥰!

A lovely moment on #Edinburgh’s Royal Mile on the most beautiful summer’s evening🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow It’s Friday. It’s hot. Talking of pubs and thinking of the #GlasgowStyle facade architect George Bell designed for publican Philip MacSorley. If you look carefully you can still see the original acid etched cut glass and how it refracts the light 🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: For #IronworkThursday, even the humblest Victorian tenement in Glasgow was transformed by the addition of ornamental ironwork. These screens either side of the tenement’s main entrance add a lacy filigree while indicating a privacy strip in front 🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow; Kingsborough Gardens, lottery win territory and a favourite street of mine because each front door has its own unique delicate stained glass design all of which are #GlasgowStyle Art Nouveau gems straight out of ‘My Fair Lady’ = a total joy 👀👇🥰!

#TilesOnTuesday: Spotted this beautiful Hyndland “Super-Wally” close while passing last week. It is probably by architect John Campbell McKellar who specialised in tenements designing no less than 640 of them. The bold choice of colours, stripes and patterns is most memorable 🥰!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: As it’s the #4thofJuly cast your mind back four years ago when Glasgow’s St Vincent Street was decked out as an American ticker tape parade for filming ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’. It was a remarkably effective transformation 👀👇🇺🇸🥰👍!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: Next time you walk up the stairs in the Kelvingrove Museum, have a close look at the balustrade as cast into each of the balusters are symbols taken from Glasgow’s Coat of Arms = the Bird, the Bell and the Fish though I couldn’t find the Tree 🧐👀👇!