THE BERESFORD
On a recent visit to Glasgow this building caught my eye. It’s a very striking, recently renovated, Art Deco Building which stands proudly on a junction of Sauchiehall Street (famous for the Rennie Mackintosh tea house,’The Willow tea Rooms’).
Sauchiehall Street is one of Glasgows most famous streets, it’s right in the heart of the city and links the city centre with the older more bohemian West End.
It is a brilliant area to live, residents can usually walk anywhere within the city or use the network of underground trains.
The Beresford is now full of brand new apartments, it’s a high quality conversion of one of Glasgows most impressive Art Deco buildings.
The building was originally built as ‘The Beresford Hotel’ in 1938, it’s ten storeys high, was the tallest building erected in Glasgow between the wars and was described as Glasgows first skyscraper.
The hotel was first used for visitors to the Empire Exhibition, and then became a favourite
Stop over for American servicemen during the Second World War.
BERESFORD HOTEL / BAIRD HALL
Sauchihall Street / Garnet Street
Weddell & Inglis 1937-38
Sauchihall Street / Garnet Street
Weddell & Inglis 1937-38
The Beresford Hotel is seen here not long after its opening in 1938. The Art Deco curved towers of the facade reflect the design found in many of Glasgow's cinemas of the 1930s.
The architect, William Beresford Inglis of Weddell & Inglis, was also the hotel's owner and managing director. After the war demand for hotel accommodation dropped off and for a while the building was used as an office block. The University of Strathclyde acquired it for student accommodation in 1964 and they renamed it Baird Hall.
In 2003 it was sold on from the university and work began on its re-conversion into private apartments.
Reference:
Glasgow City Archives, D-CA 8/2962 Reproduced with the permission of
Glasgow City Council, Libraries Information and Learning.
These
images are from Glasgow when The Beresford Building was built, it just
makes you realise what a remarkable building it must have been at the
time.
forgetmenot525 wrote on Apr 25, '10
glad you like it, you did well to find this, its over a year old :-)
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acousticeagle wrote on Mar 14, '09, edited on Mar 14, '09
Art
Deco style is so intriguing in all the art forms. There are quite a
number of famous land-mark buildings in Melbourne, Victoria with the
rounded features and soaring symmetry within the art deco style. They
are works of art in themselves.
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brendainmad wrote on Mar 14, '09
Thanks for this bit of culture. I really enjoyed the video. BTW, at my university there's a Baird Hall.
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forgetmenot525 wrote on Mar 14, '09
Thanks Diana, the music is the proclaimers and if you like it there is more here
http://forgetmenot525.multiply.com/journal/item/271/Song_saturday_The_Prolaimers |
dianahopeless wrote on Mar 14, '09
I love the restored look and the bold use of red on the building.
While watching the video (which was great) I got lost in the music on more than one occasion, and had to re-watch it. LOL |
starfishred wrote on Mar 14, '09
Would love to see the inside-I love Art Deco period-
we had a lot of art deco in Basel then about 15yrs. ago they decided to tear a bunch down luckily people got together and we were able to save some 25 wonderful buildings but sadly about 10 were destroyed |
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