Friday 30 November 2012
Wednesday 28 November 2012
Tuesday 27 November 2012
Friday 23 November 2012
Thursday 22 November 2012
Day 327: Peace Cairn
The Peace Cairn was erected for the 1938 Empire Exhibition.
It has numerous shaped blocks of stone within it, on which are engraved
the names
of the organisations & clans that attended the exhibition
which were
deeply concerned with the real possibility of war.
The modern steel globe
on top was added in July 2004
& features the word 'Peace' in different
languages.
It was designed by Elspeth Bennie.
Day 326: House for an Art Lover
In 1901 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, now
Glasgow’s most famous architect,
entered a German-based competition to design a
‘Grand Residence for an Art Lover’.
It wasn't until 1987 that Glasgow civil engineer Graham Roxburgh conceived
and
developed the idea of building the House for an Art Lover,
from the competition
drawings, on a site he had identified in
Bellahouston Park,
Glasgow & the house was built in 1990.
Monday 19 November 2012
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