Citizen Building

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Citizen Building

The Citizen 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 1885 and 1889 to a design by Scottish architect Thomas Lennox Watson . The building owner was the Evening Citizen publishing house , which set up offices and a printing plant in the building. Around 1930 the Citizen Building was redesigned by the architects Keppie & Henderson .

description

The building is on St Vincent Place . On the left is the headquarters of the Clydesdale Bank , on the right the Anchor Building and opposite the Scottish Provident Institution . The four - story neo - renaissance building is designed in the style of Dutch renaissance architecture .

The south-facing front facade is almost symmetrical and six axes wide. The masonry consists of red sandstone blocks , while brick was used at the back . All openings on the ground floor are designed with round arches . The two-winged main portal to the left of the center of the building closes with a combat window . Corinthian pilasters structure the facade. On the right there is a balcony supported by Corinthian columns. A window frieze , which is continued over the balcony, runs above the ground floor. The windows of the first and second floor are double windows with stone window crosses coupled . Two canted bay windows emerge on the balcony . The four central windows on the third floor close with elliptical arches . Their gussets are richly ornamented. Broken segment arch gables suspect the smaller arched windows on the outer axes. The facade ends in two volute gables . On the left it continues in a small tower with an octagonal floor plan. It closes with a curved dome.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Listed Building - Entry . In: Historic Scotland .
  2. ↑ Information on scottisharchitects.org.uk
  3. ↑ Entry on Citizen Building  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)

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Coordinates: 55 ° 51 ′ 40.6 ″  N , 4 ° 15 ′ 9.5 ″  W.