Lately I joined a Facebook group called 'I miss Glasgow'. I have to face the reality, I DO miss Glasgow. Most of my friends are now about to leave the crazy city too after we were told last November that we were going to lose our jobs. It's not as dramatic as it sounds because we were all foreigners and we all know we can land back on the relative 'safety net' of our respective countries.

Still, it feels like our good times came to an end and that somehow we've been torn apart. I remember when I first went to Glasgow a few weeks after my arrival (I was living by the seaside some 40km off Glasgow) it looked nothing like any other European cities I had travelled. Every street was straight, everything was angular and square. I would often get lost at first because the streets could easily be mixed up. I fell in love with the architecture. Some buildings look Amsterdamian, some others Venetian, some even Parisian and Art Deco is everywhere in high proportion.

I started to take a lot of pictures of the Art Deco buildings (or what looked like it as I'm not an expert) in the idea I could convince someone at the Lighthouse (an architecture and design venue in the city centre) to organize an exhibition about Art Deco in Glasgow. But I dropped the idea because I lacked of time and had no clue whether this was naive or sensible.



The Rogano restaurant in Exchange place, created in 1935




Building at the intersection of Queen St and Ingram st (the Glaswegian avenue Montaigne)



The Watt Bros building takes up 3 angles in Sauchiehall st, Hope street and Bath st. My favourite granny's shop, one of the best stores in Glasgow, a real maze with different uneven levels and stairs.



The Watt Brothers lift at the 'ground floor', beautiful



Dunnes Building at the intersection of Sauchiehall st and Cambridge st



The ABC venue on Sauchiehall st, was the first cinema in Glasgow



Stunning building in Gordon st



My Art Deco inspired window display during the time I was working at the charity shop.

Also I learned yesterday that November Reels is currently post-producing a documentary film about Barbara Hulanicki and Biba. Fantastic news!!



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