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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
