Daily Express Building, 159-195 Albion Street, Glasgow is a Grade A listed building in the Glasgow City local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 3 September 1974. Office block. 4 related planning applications.

Daily Express Building, 159-195 Albion Street, Glasgow

WRENN ID
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Grade
A
Local Planning Authority
Glasgow City
Constituency
Glasgow East MP: John Grady (Lab)
Country
Scotland
Date first listed
3 September 1974
Type
Office block
OS grid reference
NS 596 652
Coordinates
55.86007, -4.24389
Source
Historic Environment Scotland listing

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Description

The Daily Express Building, located at 159-195 Albion Street in Glasgow, was designed by architect Sir Owen Williams in 1936, with alterations and large additions made in 1986. This large rectangular, four-storey newspaper office block features a glass front and is constructed with a reinforced concrete portal frame, which is clad in glass and black vitrolite. The windows are metal framed.

On the ground floor facing Albion Street, there are open loading bays, supported by giant concrete cantilevers that hold up the first floor. A tall rooftop addition was completed by Frank Burnet, Bell and Partners between 1986 and 1988.

Local climate

Daily Express Building, 159-195 Albion Street, Glasgow sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,250 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 80% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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