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The area is also home to a number of high end boutique style shops and some of Glasgow's most upmarket stores. [7] Royal Exchange Square at night (Merchant City) The Merchant City is the centre of Glasgow's growing 'cultural quarter', based on King Street, the Saltmarket and Trongate, and at the heart of the annual Merchant City Festival.
Houston's mercat cross, used as a symbol of the village. Houston's historic village centre, located at the north-west edge of the village, is a designated conservation area. The area is home to the main village pubs, small shops and the village's Post Office.
The St. Enoch Centre is a shopping mall located in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland. The centre is located adjacent to St Enoch Square. The Architects were the GMW Architects. The construction, undertaken by Sir Robert McAlpine, [1] began in 1986, and the building was opened to the public on 25 May 1989.
The original Western Club building in Buchanan Street, Glasgow. At the start of the street where it meets Argyle Street and St Enoch Square the historic Argyll Arcade [10] [11] which opened in 1827 with sixty-three shops and is now the oldest Victorian shopping centre in Britain, and its near neighbour award-winning Princes Square indoor mall face across to the stores which make up the iconic ...
Sauchiehall Street (/ ˌ s ɔː k ɪ ˈ h ɔː l, ˌ s ɒ k ɪ-, ˈ s ɔː k ɪ h ɔː l, ˈ s ɒ k ɪ-/) [2] is one of the main shopping streets in the city centre of Glasgow, Scotland, along with Buchanan Street and Argyle Street. Although commonly associated with the city centre, Sauchiehall Street is over 1.5 miles (2.4 km) in length.
Princes Square is a shopping centre on Buchanan Street in central Glasgow, Scotland.It was first designed and built in the 1840s by John Baird [1] and other architects. It was developed in 1988 to a design by Edinburgh architects, the Hugh Martin Partnership.
Charles Frank Ltd was formed in circa 1907 when Lithuanian immigrant Charles Frank opened a shop at 67, Saltmarket, [1] where he designed, sold, and repaired photographic and scientific apparatus. Over the following half century it was to become one of the best-known photographic centers in the city and a byword for excellence in cameras and ...
The GEAR (Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal) scheme was founded in 1976, then Europe's largest urban regeneration project of its kind, to provide "core areas with development potential" in the east end of Glasgow. A new shopping centre was part of the plan, ideally to replace the then recently closed Parkhead Forge plant of the Beardmore's steel ...