David Millar

ALT Taken on a crisp spring morning under a blue sky, this is the huge Candleriggs gap site in May 2022 after site works started with a site hoarding in place, tower cranes erected and the few remaining buildings demolished. This enormous hole in the heart of Glasgow’s Merchant City, blasts apart what was once tight city fabric and the consequent lack of activity has been a blight on the economic development on the neighbourhood for decades.

ALT Taken on a crisp blue sky morning, this is the huge Candleriggs site in January 2023 with construction on the new buildings well underway. The buildings have still to have their facades and cladding erected so their concrete frames are exposed. Nevertheless, the reinforcement of the street wall is already transforming the enclosure and tightness of Trongate, one of the most ancient streets in the heart of Glasgow.

ALT Taken on a crisp blue sky morning, and looking up Candleriggs, this is the huge Candleriggs site in January 2023 with construction on the new buildings well underway with the red tower cranes looming over them. The buildings have still to have their facades and cladding erected so their concrete frames are exposed. Nevertheless, the reinforcement of the street wall is already transforming the enclosure and tightness of Candleriggs, one of the earliest post medieval planned streets in Glasgow’s city centre. You can now better appreciate how the tight enclosed street was designed to frame the Ramshorn Kirk which acts as a pont de vue catching the eye at the end of it.

ALT This image is of the ‘B’ listed Bloomfield Cottage of circa 1852 at the corner of Great George and Bank Streets in Hillhead neighbourhood of Glasgow. Sadly this blonde sandstone two storey neoclassical villa, which forms part of a bookended pair, has been on the Buildings at Risk Register since 2012 but has slid into decline with the roof recently further collapsing.

ALT This is a detail of the entrance and central window of the ‘B’ listed Bloomfield Cottage of circa 1852 at the corner of Great George and Bank Streets in Hillhead neighbourhood of Glasgow. Sadly this blonde sandstone two storey neoclassical villa, which forms part of a bookended pair, has been on the Buildings at Risk Register since 2012. This image shows the collapsed roof through the smashed central window. It also shows how invasive the buddleja is, the roots of which will further break apart the stone work.