The main section of the Scotcities web site Glasgow and Edinburgh - Scottish City Architecture
is dedicated to the wonderful range of historical buildings to be seen in Scotland's two largest cities.
The Carnegie Libraries of Scotland pages explore the architecture and history of a range of unique buildings which illustrate a wide variety of Edwardian styles.
The Dictionary of Scottish Architects provides an very large database of biographical information and full lists of works for all architects known to have worked in Scotland during the period 1840-1940.
The Scottish Assessors Association
maintain a constantly updated portal, allowing free access to information from the Valuation Rolls for Scotland.
The Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland
site details the work of its members in promoting historical architecture.
The society has a large programme of lectures, tours and other events throughout Scotland.
Sapling.info is an Architecture, Planning & Landscape Information Gateway. It is an impressive source of relevant web links, featuring over 900 reviewed websites covering architecture, planning and landscape related themes. It also contains events listings, news headlines, bookstore and forums.
Rampant Scotland features an comprehensive Scottish web directory.
Glasgow City of Sculpture is a valuable source of information regarding the varied sculptural compositions that grace many of Glasgow's buildings.
Architecture Glasgow is a growing resource
providing a photographic record of interesting and unusual buildings to be found across Glasgow.
Glasgow's Merchant City gives details of the
Merchant City Townscape Heritage Initiative which has a five year grants programme aimed at regenerating the historic heart of Glasgow. The architecture in this district is featured in my own Merchant City page.
Glasgow City Heritage Trust is an independent charitable company, supported by Glasgow City Council and Historic Scotland.
The Glasgow Guide website contains a wealth of valuable information about the city, including images, maps, games, quizzes, as well as up-to-date news and weather reports. The site also provides a comprehensive listing of pubs, clubs, restaurants, hotels, museums, art galleries, cinemas, and places to visit in Glasgow. In addition there's a discussion board and a web link directory of local sites.
Southside Happenings is an on-line magazine featuring things to do, places to see, and other information relating to Glasgow’s southern suburbs.
The Glasgow Digital Library
project has created and collected lots of useful material about Glasgow.
The Virtual Mitchell
project has digitised many of the old photographs held by the City Archives and the Mitchell Library in Glasgow.
In the 1920's and 1930's the City Assessor's Department employed a photographer to maintain pictorial records of commercial properties to assist the surveyors in their task of valuation.
Peter Stubbs has a very informative site featuring Victorian photographs and engravings of Edinburgh buildings.
The D & A Collection features limited edition fine art prints of Edinburgh and Glasgow architecture.
Glenn A Walsh of Pittsburgh has a site with lots of links to Carnegie Libraries in the United States such as North America's first at Braddock, Pennsylvania (right). Glenn, who has a passion for preserving the Pennsylvania libraries as historic monuments, has also added links to lots of other Carnegie related sites throughout the world.
In August 2002, the 68th General Conference of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions IFLA took place in my home town, Glasgow.
There is also lots of information about the man and his architecture at
the Alexander Thomson Society website. The society is based in a Thomson building in Walmer Crescent in Glasgow's south side. They organise site visits and lectures and produce regular newletters for its members.
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh section brings together many drawings and photographs of Glasgow's other architectural hero.
His early 20th century modernism has left a remarkable legacy to the city in the fields of both architecture and design.
Architectural landmarks of England, Ireland and USA
is a new website created to display some of my drawings of buildings from outside Scotland.
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This page contains links to lots of sites which promote urban exploration and the study of Scottish architectural history.
The Cathcart Circle Architecture pages feature a variety of fascinating buildings on the south side of Glasgow
which can be visited from stations on the Cathcart Circle railway line,.
The portal's database will assist you in identifying owners and occupiers of all non-residential properties in Scotland. It also provides Council Tax valuation bands for all houses in the country.
The site also contains lots of web pages covering different aspects of Scotland and the Scots.
It also contains detailed biographical information about many of the sculptors and architects featured in my sites.
The site features both modern and old architecture.
The Trust is responsible for distributing grants to assist in the repair, enhancement and conservation of the city's historic architecture.
The Trust also provides help and advice to owners of historic buildings in the city.
It also maintains and organises links to information about the city which can be found elsewhere on the Internet.
Many of these photographs, mostly of shop fronts, were gifted to the City Archives and can now be viewed on the
Virtual Mitchell site.
In those days the City Assessor made significant valuation differences to account for the quality of shop fronts and corner display windows. This happens to a much lesser extent today in the era of shopping malls and uniformity of style.
Assessors staff are still finding old photographs in the files, which are passed on to the City Archives for safekeeping.
Edinphoto provides historic details of Edinburgh's earliest professional photographers and also features many of Peter's own photographs of buildings and landscapes.
The prints boast an incredible level of architectural detail and are hand signed & numbered by the artist, Athol J. Pirie.
History of Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Libraries
The conference featured a "Carnegie Librarians Worldmeet" with a lounge dedicated to Carnegie librarians to discuss and exchange information about their buildings.
A highlight of the event was the Carnegie Workshop & Library Visit, which took place in Dunfermline on 22nd August.
The guest speaker at the workshop was architect Jeffrey Scherer, whose topic was "Carnegie Libraries: Their Design and Adaptation". Jeff, who is a partner with Meyer, Scherer and Rockcastle in Minneapolis, has been involved in many Carnegie library refurbishments in the United States.
The specially dedicated Alexander Greek Thomson pages of this web site feature drawings and illustrated photo guides of a great many of Thomson's buildings which have survived comprehensive redevelopment thanks to the gradual recognition of Thomson as an architect of international stature.
Mackintosh's Glasgow buildings were designed when he was in his twenties and thirties. He then moved on to bring his highly original imagination into the fields of art and design.
On my travels I have seen lots of interesting architecture and sculpture which I have gradually built up to make a collection of new drawings.
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