The Church of Saint Paul on Shettleston Road in Glasgow. Created by the legendary Gillespie, Kidd and Coia, and constructed in 1958, it's a stunning example of modern church design. The central sculpture of Christ on the Cross was created by Jack Mortimer.

The old and new sections of the Theatre Royal in Glasgow. Originally built in 1867, the corner section was added in 2014, and was designed by Page\Park . While it's in a very different style, it maintains the older roofline and continues the long Glaswegian architectural tradition of having a distictive feature corner on important buildings at major road junctions.

The Science Mall and the Glasgow Tower, part of the Glasgow Science Centre on Pacific Quay in Glasgow, looking spectacular against blue skies.

One of my favourite characteristics of Glasgow's traditional architecture is the prominance given to corners, where architects often used major features, such as corner towers, turrets, and cupolas, to mark them. It's something you can see across the city, such as on the right here in Govan. However, it's something you rarely see on newer developments, such as the one on the left.

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Designed by Page & Park, and constructed in 1994, this building manages to look contemporary, thanks to the sculptural work by Alexander Stoddart and Jack Sloan, while still sitting comfortably between its Georgian (right) and Victorian (left) neighbours. It was built to fill a gap created when the previous building occupying the site burned down in 1992.

This one will not be to everyone's taste, but I kind of like this building on Glassford Street in Glasgow. It's quite reminiscent of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia's 1970 BOAC building on nearby Buchanan Street. The ground floor shop front does rather let it down, though.

Love the way the architect of this tenement building in the Govan area of Glasgow has used a column of bay windows to pivot it around a curving junction between two roads. It's the little details like this that help to really make a streetscape, and that are all to often missing from modern buildings. It's also a great organisation occupying the ground floor!

The titanium-clad IMAX cinema building at the Glasgow Science Centre rising above an urban wildflower micro-meadow. Designed by the Building Design Partnership, the cinema opened in 2000 with a documentary called Dolphins, which was filmed in the northern Bahamas, where I used to work.

Our Lady of Assumption on Bilsland Drive in the Ruchill. Designed by Thomas S. Cordiner, it was built in the 1950s, which must make it one of the last churches in Glasgow built with red sandstone.

An interesting comparison between the height of a traditonal sandstone Glasgow tenement (left) and the type of modern flat which replaced them later in the 20th Century (right). This is driven by differences in ceiling heights, meaning three modern flats into the same airspace occupied by about two and a half tenement flats.

Today I visited Glasgow's only known pair of architectural walruses as they're amongst my favourite sculptures in the city. They're on the 1899 Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corporation building (also known as Ocean Chambers) on West Regent Street in the city centre.

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