Perfect for a summer’s evening, The Lab combines elements of a traditional Glasgow city centre pub with something a little more upmarket. It offers a wide range of draught and bottled beers, along with a good selection of spirits and their ‘test tube’ shooters — oh, and apparently the white Russians are good, too.
It can […]
The Buchanan Galleries opened in 1999, and is home to 80 shops over 56000 square metres of retail space — John Lewis occupies the largest unit in the centre.
Construction took nearly three years, and the centre has contributed, along with the redevelopment of the former Buchanan Hotel opposite, to the gentrification of what was a […]
The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA) is the second most visited contemporary art gallery in the UK outside London, according to the GoMA page on the City Council’s website. It houses a mixture of temporary exhibitions alongside a permanent collection featuring works primarily by local and other British artists.
Formerly a private house, bank and library, […]
A cut above the ordinary, Princes Square is a shopping centre on Buchanan Street which hosts a range of relatively upmarket shops, along with a selection of restaurants.
The elegant building dates from 1841, and became Princes Square (with additional art nouveau atrium and sweeping escalators) in the mid-1980s; at the time it was a novel […]
Donald Dewar, the former First Minister, is immortalised in a statue at the junction of Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street, outside the Royal Concert Hall.
Originally unveiled in 2002 by Tony Blair, the statue has had a chequered history. It was damaged within days of installation — the damage, originally thought to be vandalism, was later […]
Where The Monkey Sleeps (WTMS), which opened in 2001, offers an eclectic range of sandwiches, film-star-themed smoothies and great coffee to boot.
A popular haunt with office workers and bicycle couriers alike, it can get very busy on weekday lunchtimes — however, pop in later in the day or mid-morning and you’ll find it blissfully calm, […]
Form, the shop at the Lighthouse is perfect for gift shopping for artful friends, as well as stocking up on Moleskines.
It stocks a range of architecture and design books, mostly with a Glaswegian/Scottish/British slant as well as housewares and stationery, and the range of tongue-in-cheek birthday cards means that it’s a brilliant last stop shop […]
Nice ‘n’ Sleazy, on Sauchiehall Street has an acoustic night most Mondays, featuring musicians from across the city. The quality varies from outstanding to not-so-outstanding, but the atmosphere is smoky and amiable. The main bar upstairs provides an opportunity to escape the music for a while, and also to try out the range of continental […]
In 2003, Glasgow City Council approved Richard Rogers Partnership (RRP) as the preferred architects for the proposed Broomielaw-Tradeston bridge. RRP’s past projects include the Millennium Dome and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
Aimed to spark regeneration as part of Scottish Enterprise’s International Financial Services District project, the £40M bridge will be completed in 2007. However, some […]
