- glasgow.
It was only a 50 minute train ride from edinburgh to glasgow and somehow it seemed like a world away. Glasgow instantley gave off a big city vibe, and think: edinburgh is the capital of scotland? while edinburgh does not contain much height and contains a lot of medieval, renaissance and baroque buildings, glasgow has gone completley contemporary. A lot of its older urban peices seem to date to early 1900s. Alike Brussels, Paris, Barcelona, and London, Glasgow has its own modern architect who added a lot to the city, Mackintosh. The city takes pride of being the home to his work as well. His work was late 1800s early 1900 in the art nouveau style that was up and coming all over europe (read: brussels and paris prodominatly, the development of the metropolitian stations in paris by H. Guimard). One of his buildings, the lighthouse was renovated for an architecture design and product design center. It held exhibits due to current architectual related topics. It also had this huge winding staircase that consisted of 137 steps that takes one up to the top of the lighthouse that overlooks the city of glasgow. Overall, I thought Glasgow has a lot of potential. For some reason the area by the river was abondoned and is just now being built up. There really is no pedestrian edge along the river either...I can see a huge oppurtunity for urban development. Im looking forward to seeing what will come of this city.
shandar | 5:32 PM
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