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   Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 06:50:08 JST Mrs Cloudy

   Anyone know what this building was. Corner of West George St and Hope St in Glasgow. It's quite imposing. #Glasgow #Scotland #architecture #history

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     Derek Black (djm_black@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 16:31:55 JST Derek Black

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     • This Is My Glasgow

     @CloudyMrs Sounds like a question for @thisismyglasgow

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     This Is My Glasgow (thisismyglasgow@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 17:00:05 JST This Is My Glasgow

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     @CloudyMrs This is one of Glasgow's mini-skyscrapers built at a time when the city's architects were starting to look to America for inspiration rather than to the Classical cultures of Europe. It was also a time when construction techniques and improvements in elevation technology allowed buildings to routinely be constructed higher than before. However, despite all this, it still has a distinctly Glasgow feel to it, and so it doesn't look out of place amongst the older buildings nearby.

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     Mrs Cloudy (cloudymrs@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 19:29:53 JST Mrs Cloudy

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     @thisismyglasgow thank you. That's really interesting.