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Re: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems

It's amazing, the way these exhibition structures were built to stand only for a few years. I suppose the Milennium Dome is a modern example of such thinking, but it just seems madness... to go to all that effort knowing that in a little while you'll dismantle the structure seems frustrating, to say...
by belaqua
Thu Nov 27, 2008 8:14 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems
Replies: 10
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Re: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems

Thanks Schiehallion, I was considering either this or the Caledonia Road Church (and its tenements), which I know hasn't gone completely but is gone in almost every other way. The QP church is a genuinely vanished building, but the Cally Road church makes such a mournful figure among the wasteland a...
by belaqua
Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:01 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems
Replies: 10
Views: 27445

Re: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems

I have certainly considered that. It's of such relevance to GU students that I feel that it's worthy of its own article. My fast-developing obsession with vanished Glasgow is going to require more than one article to accomodate it! Thanks again for the link to the relevant thread.
by belaqua
Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:24 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems
Replies: 10
Views: 27445

Re: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems

Thanks for both those links.

I did attempt a search (I know there must be a lot of relevant info already in the forums) but it's difficult to know what to search for exactly, and the search feature can be a little idiosyncratic at times...
by belaqua
Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:33 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems
Replies: 10
Views: 27445

Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems

Hi everyone, I've been reading these forums with fascination since I discovered the site a few weeks ago. You've taught me so much! I've decided to work on an article for the Glasgow Uni newspaper about the city's lost architectural heritage. I'm not originally from Glasgow, and until I started rese...
by belaqua
Thu Nov 27, 2008 9:18 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Your Top 5 Lost Architectural Gems
Replies: 10
Views: 27445

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