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There's nothing curious about the budget, there's nothing curious about an invitation for proposals and theres no basis to compare a teaching block built by a School of Art and a Parliament built by two Governments, several tiers of Civil Servants and whose architect died three months before constru...

If you mean the invitation to architects to submit their proposals for this development, and by parish cooncil you mean the Scottish Parliament, then yes. Yes I suppose it the sort of nonsense that leads to a building being built.

http://www.architecturescotland.co.uk Contractor CCG issued a statement advising that the building has now been stabilised and the collapse occurred in an expected and controlled manner. The collapse occurred in the midst of ongoing works to transform the former hostel into flats to designs by Elder...

Thats a good point Dexter, but I think using the thumbnail with a credit to SCRAN is acceptable. Call me old fashioned. RE: the point: from the original Past/Present thread: This is the gushet junction of Cathcart rd and Crown st in the Gorbals some time in the 50s/60s. The church is the St Ninian's...

travelling from the west on the m8 you can go either onto the m74 to head south or stay on the m8 heading east or north - thats good. Correct. travelling from the east on the m8/kingston bridge you can keep on the m8 going west, but will you be able to go straight onto the m74 to head south, withou...

Argyle St too loud, Sauchiehall Street too cheap, Buchannan Street too dear, Barras too down-market... try the St Enoch Centre HH.

sorry to hear about betty, hope shes ok.

Anarkali on Victoria Rd. Haven't been disappointed so far... and I'm particularly difficult to please.

lentil burger was fucking awful. barf worthy in fact.

just wait till Dex is mod...

Indeed it shall: >fly through<

Long been a favourite of mine. From Glasgow Pevsner, James Miller destroyed the symmetry of Kirkland's [adjoining] composition in 1934-5 with the white ashlar pylon of his Commercial Bank (now Royal Bank of Scotland, No. 30). Classical frieze by Gilbert Bayes illustrating Commerce, Industry, Content...

oh yeah, I hadn't actually noticed the pins! I thought this was just track bed from the last phase of the bings life. Maybe it was where the winch for hauling the carts (whats the name of these carts? train geek, help please) was fixed?

I've no idea what this was for: http://i204.photobucket.com/albums/bb282/LuckyPoet/IMGP3558-133.jpg This is probably a remnant of the track bed that would have carried the spoil to the top of the bing for tipping, like so http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v627/cristy_bunt/Misc/bing_construction.jpg