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Glasgow West Conservation Trust - Registered charity with a remit to conserve and promote the historic West End of Glasgow, one of the finest examples of Victorian town development in Britain.
The Mackintosh House - A QuickTime VR tour of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's house at the Hunterian Art Gallery at University of Glasgow.
The Royal Exchange - A history of the building which now houses the Gallery of Modern Art.
Architectural Tours - A guided tour of the beauty that is Glasgow.
Cathcart Circle Architecture - An architectural tour of historical buildings on the Cathcart Circle Railway line in Glasgow, illustrated by Gerry Blaikie. Includes buildings designed Alexander 'Greek' Thomson.
Glasgow Architecture - Aims to inform both locals and an international audience of Glasgow's revitalised architecture scene.
House for an Art Lover - This house was built in Glasgow 1989-96 to a 1901 design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Tour, news, events and visitor information, including details of the cafe, shop and suitability for functions.
Two Glasgow Exhibitions - A plan and colour photographs of the Art-Deco buildings of the 1938 Empire Exhibition. Black and white photographs of the Scottish Exhibition of 1911, with its Scottish Baronial architecture.
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If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure? -- Harry Shearer Architecture "To live is to dream and to die is to awaken." (Anonymous) The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. -- Robert M. Pirsig "We always get bored with those whom we bore." (François VI Duke (duc) de La Rochefoucauld, 1616-80) Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -- H. L. Mencken Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. -- Charles Du Bos Architecture I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. -- Tom Lehrer A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it. -- Albert Einstein, attributed There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network. -- Guy Almes Architecture To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Every flower must grow through dirt. -- Anonymous Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny. -- George I'll sleep when I'm dead. - Warren Zevon The theory used to be you marry an older man because they are more mature. The new theory is that men don't mature. So you might as well marry a younger one. -- Anonymous Architecture Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. -- Typewriting exercise "In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for." (Paul Lutus) "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships." (Sharon Stone) Architecture It ain't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. -- Will Rogers One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. -- Bertrand Russell Truth can be a dangerous thing. It is quite patient and relentless. -- R. Scott Richards In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on. This person must be fired. -- Conway's Law There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. -- Kenneth H. Olson, President of DEC, Convention of the World Future Society, 1977 Architecture With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die. -- Abraham Lincoln "Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers. -- W. Somerset Maugham Architecture I hate mankind, for I think myself to be one of them, and I know how bad I am. -- Samuel Johnson "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." (Jean Genet) "We have so little presumption that we should like to be known in the world, even to those who come after when we are no more. We have so little vanity that the esteem of five people, say six, amuses Nobody ever died of laughter. -- Max Beerbohm We can do no great things; only small things with great love. -- Mother Teresa Architecture Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. -- Edward H. Land I have read your book and much like it. -- Moses Hadas, book reviewer "When I was four years old they tried to test my IQ, they showed me this picture of three oranges and a pear. They asked me which one is different and does not belong, they taught me different was wro Architecture Always bear in mind that your own resolution to success is more important than any other one thing. -- Abraham Lincoln "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me." (George Bernar There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. -- Lily Tomlin "A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you." (Bert Leston Taylor) Architecture It's impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen "And on the seventh day, God stepped back and said 'There is my creation, perfect in every way ... oh, damn it, I left pot all over the place. Now they'll think I want them to smoke it. Now I have to "College professors are the people who can't hack it in the real world." (William Thomas) Architecture God help the man who won't marry until he finds a perfect woman, and God help him still more if he finds her. -- Benjamin Tillett If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter. -- Joseph Addison Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. -- Carl Gustav Jung "In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes." (Andy Warhol) If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. -- Francis Bacon Architecture Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun. -- Matt Groening, Love is Hell Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress. -- Gandhi Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. -- Virginia Woolf Architecture If it were weren't for pickpockets, I'd have no sex life at all. -- Rodney Dangerfield "The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize." (Robert Hughes) Sex is like bridge: If you don't have a good partner, you better have a good hand. -- Charles Pierce CAPITAL, n. The seat of misgovernment. That which provides the fire, the pot, the dinner, the table and the knife and fork for the anarchist; the part of the repast that himself supplies is the disg Always behave like a duck--keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. -- Jacob Braude Architecture Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - Napoleon Bonaparte In the end, everything is a gag. - Charlie Chaplin Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Architecture Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. -- Aldous Huxley Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women? -- Virginia Woolf Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. -- Adlai Stevenson The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald Architecture I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. -- Oscar Wilde "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." (Ralph Waldo Emerson) It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the Architecture Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. Baltasar Gracian To love someone deeply gives you strength. Being loved by someone deeply gives you courage. -- Lao Tzu Never moon a werewolf. -- Mike Binder There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. -- Benjamin Disraeli The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. -- Honore de Balzac Architecture Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. Better to have loved a short man than never to have loved a tall. -- David Chambless I base my fashion sense on what doesn't itch. -- Gilda Radner Architecture In medieval times, people thought that evil spirits could enter a person through an open mouth. These days they more often leave that way. -- David Deckert I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coattails. -- Clarence Darrow One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. Passersby see only a wisp of smoke rising from the chimney and continue on their way. -- Vincent Van Gogh The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant. -- Salvador Dali Architecture Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. -- John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester "I run to see who has the most guts." (Steve Roland Prefontaine) "I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it." 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