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Holmwood is Reopening!
Following its closure during the pandemic, the National Trust for Scotland has confirmed that Holmwood will be reopening to visitors on 26th June. Redecoration works have been able to continue whilst the…
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Museum of Slavery Proposal Wins Egyptian Halls Public Vote
In 2019 the Alexander Thomson Society launched a competition entitled Reimagining Egyptian Halls, in order to encourage designers from across the world to think creatively about what a future use for Greek…
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Reimagining Egyptian Halls
The Alexander Thomson Society are pleased to announce our ideas competition for Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson’s A-listed Egyptian Halls in Glasgow. The upper floors of the building have been vacant for nearly 40…
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Egyptian Halls
The Egyptian Halls, Union Street, is quite possibly one of Glasgow’s greatest buildings. Designed by Alexander Thomson from 1870 and completed in 1872 for the iron manufacturer, James Henderson Robertson, it is…
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Thomson and Wright
When discussing the work and legacy of Alexander ‘Greek’ Thomson, the question often arises of whether Thomson’s style was moving towards an early modernism – his eschewing of articulated window reveals at…
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The Life of Alexander Thomson
The following post is a re-publishing of Thomas Gildard’s address to the Architectural Section of the Glasgow Philosophical Society, which was appreciatively digitised and published by the fantastic resource that is: www.archiseek.com, which…
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