Atlantic Chambers, 43, 45, 47 Hope Street, Glasgow

Atlantic Chambers is a seven-storey commercial building located at 43, 45, and 47 Hope Street in Glasgow, designed by Sir J J Burnet in 1899. The building features a symmetrical façade with four unequal bays, linked by a narrow central bay, and has modern shops at the ground floor facing Hope Street. It is constructed in a free style using polished red ashlar with a granite base. The entrance at No 45 is highlighted by a banded design with a graduated keyblock, and the outer bays display channelled ashlar at the ground and first floors.

Above the central doorway, there is a frieze sculpted with waves, flanked by seated figures that support an aedicule featuring dwarf Tuscan columns. A broken pediment with a sculpted winged figure sits above a relief panel. Three thin pilaster strips extend to the fifth floor, leading to an aediculed niche and continuing as a single stepped pilaster that breaks the eaves gallery, topped by a chimney stack at the raised main cornice.

The outer bays have a ground floor cornice that projects forward at the central bay, forming sculpture podia. The first floor features four two-light windows set within architraves on a cill band. The second floor includes a solid consoled balcony adorned with bas-relief sculpture, with canted bays on either side rising from the second to the fourth floors, topped by a solid parapet or balcony. The aediculed centre light above the canted window on the second floor is also notable. All upper windows are two-light sash and case with small-paned upper sashes and stone mullions. The fifth floor has projecting cill bands on the outer bays and a mutule cornice that supports a solid balcony on the sixth floor. The eaves gallery features Tuscan columns and a bold modillion main cornice.

The elevation facing Cadogan Street consists of four bays, with the ground floor cornice raised in the centre two bays. Giant pilasters rise to the fifth floor, while canted bays extend to the fifth floor in the outer bays and to the fourth in the centre bays. The entrance at 1a Cadogan Street is open and features a broken pediment, surmounted by a simple aedicule and a shell-headed niche. The sixth floor also has a solid balcony, with a coupled Tuscan columned eaves gallery and a bold modillion cornice. There are four two-light attic windows, along with an angled panelled and corniced stack and a corniced end stack.

Inside, the building features a staircase with a wreathed handrail and cast-iron balusters, along with bowed landings.