Daily Record Building, 20, 26, 28 Renfield Lane, Glasgow

The Daily Record Building, located at 20, 26, and 28 Renfield Lane in Glasgow, was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in collaboration with John Honeyman and Keppie, and constructed between 1900-01 and 1903-04. This Art Nouveau commercial building features three storeys, a five-storey section, and an attic, with a combination of glazed brick and ashlar dressings.

The façade facing Renfield Lane consists of eight bays, showcasing elliptically headed, arched loading bays on the ground floor, which are fitted with timber mullioned glazing and glazed brick aprons. The upper floors of the four eastern bays are plain. The ground floor is adorned with a simple blue brick frieze and a vestigial cornice. The western section has four bays, featuring a stylised, keyblocked entry in the second bay from the east, and a shallow canted bay that rises through the full height of the building. Canted bays are also present above the third floor.

The windows throughout are imitation sash and case, horizontally pivoting, and are primarily decorated with geometric glazing bars and tapering pilaster mullions. The eaves cornice is complemented by a decorative pattern of advanced header bricks that runs the full height of the building. Additionally, there are three ashlar dormers with sculpted heads, an architraved, sculpted taller light above the east bay, and a single bowed bay on the eastern return with a single light featuring an ashlar surround and a blocked head with low relief sculpture.

On the elevation facing St Vincent Lane, there are four bays of sash and case windows, a cill band at the first floor, and cills at the upper floors, all supported by tapering pilaster mullions. The building is topped with a stepped brick cornice and a steeply splayed plinth.