Anchor building
The Anchor Building is a commercial building in the Scottish city of Glasgow . In 1970 the building was included as an individual monument in the Scottish monument lists in the highest monument category A.
history
The building was built between 1905 and 1907 to a design by the Scottish architect James Miller . The owner was the shipping company Anchor Line . In 2010, the Anchor Building was added to the register of endangered listed buildings in Scotland. At this point the Anchor Building was empty. At the end of 2014 a restaurant was set up on the ground floor. The establishment of a hotel on the upper floors began in the summer of 2017. In 2013, the condition of the anchor building was rated as relatively good with low risk.
description
It is the corner house between St Vincent Place and Anchor Lane . The Citizen Building is on the left . Opposite Anchor Lane are 2 St Vincent Place and 24 George Square . The seven - story neo - renaissance building is designed in the style of Edwardian renaissance architecture .
The south-facing facade along St Vincent Place is lavishly designed with Carrara marble and faience ceramics . Ionic columns flank the detailed arched portal with a masked keystone . The gussets are decorated with putti , which flank the mask. The columns support a protruding broken segmented arch gable . The wide flanking windows are designed with stylized keystones with Mercury heads . The side entrances on the outer axes are designed with ionic columns. They carry parapets with cartridges . A balcony mounted on ornamented consoles stretches along the second floor . Colossal Ionic columns structure the facade along the fourth and fifth floors .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
- ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
- ↑ Entry on buildingsatrisk.org.uk ( memento of the original from October 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Entry on Anchor Building in Canmore, Historic Environment Scotland database
Coordinates: 55 ° 51 '40.4 " N , 4 ° 15' 8.5" W.