Caledonian Chambers, Central Station, 75-95 Union Street, Glasgow

Caledonian Chambers, located at Central Station on Union Street in Glasgow, is a six-storey Edwardian classical commercial building designed by James Miller in 1903, featuring sculpture by Albert Hodge. The building has modern shops on the ground floor and consists of 13 bays, with the outer bays raised.

The exterior is finished in polished ashlar with a granite base, highlighted by a band at the main entrance. The entrance at No. 87 Union Street features a segmental pedimented doorpiece with a sculpted tympanum. Above this, there is a two-storey, balustraded aedicule with keyblocked, round-headed windows set in a channelled cavetto recess. All windows are sash and case, framed in architraves, with glazing bars in the upper sashes.

In the outer bays, the first-floor windows are Ionic pilastered with bracket capitals, flanked by crouching atlantes that support a two-storey coupled columned gigantic aedicule. The second and third floors feature a double-height recessed, canted bay with a corniced projecting podium, topped by a broken segmental pediment with a sculpted tympanum and a crown. The fourth and fifth floors have two storeys of deeply recessed flat inner bays within a two-storey keyblocked arch, adorned with sculpted bracketed pilasters. The sixth floor has an eaves gallery supported by Doric columns, with an eaves frieze and mutule cornice, and giant pedestals above featuring a central sculpted pier.

In the central bays, the ground floor includes a cornice, while the first and second floors have canted bays at the second and fourth positions from the ends. The flat bays contain windows in linked architraves, and there is a balcony on the third floor that sweeps back in the centre, displaying a sculpted coat of arms. The windows are framed in architraves with broken segmental pediments and sculpted tympana. The central section features a giant order of semi-engaged Roman Ionic colonnettes, a moulded cill band on the fifth floor with two-light windows that have Ionic column mullions, and a bold mutule cornice. The attic floor is enclosed by a wrought-iron balustrade in front of two-light windows with stone mullions, and the eaves cornice projects between the bays.