34, 36, 38 West George Street, Glasgow

34, 36, 38 West George Street in Glasgow is an office and shop building designed by James Thomson between 1898 and 1900. This six-storey structure, which includes a basement and attic, features an asymmetrical Renaissance style and is constructed from red sandstone ashlar. The ground floor has modern shopfronts, while the upper floors are distinguished by giant composite pilasters that rise from the first to the third floor, with channeling on the first floor and banding on the second and third floors, effectively dividing the bays. Moulded cill courses add to the architectural detail.

On the West George Street elevation, there is a polished granite balustrade at the basement recess, and the central porch is supported by paired columns with Corinthian capitals. The frieze is adorned with triglyphs and paterae metopes, and a cartouche is featured in the raised end panels of the parapet above. The arched doorway is embellished with a decorative wrought-iron overthrow and two-leaf gates. The first and second floors have tripartite windows with convex outer lights in the centre and right bays. The left bays have projecting rectangular bays with terms and Ionic fluted pilasters, while carved garlands and wreathed portraits are positioned between the cills and lintels of both floors, topped by a dentil cornice above the projecting windows. The third floor has bipartite aedicules with Etruscan column mullions, and the fourth floor features round-arched tripartite windows. The fifth floor has architraved bipartites in the centre and right bays, with five single windows divided by fluted pilasters above the left bays. A consoled cornice crowns the building, and there are two column-flanked pedimented dormer windows at the centre, which connect to a polygonal corner pavilion topped with a leaded ogee roof and a gilded ball and cockerel weathervane. Above the outer left bays, a scrolled three-light scroll-coped gable is supported by fluted composite columns.

The Dundas Street elevation is detailed similarly to the centre and right bays of the West George Street front, featuring plate-glass sash and case windows.