Mcconnel's Building, 307-333 Hope Street, Glasgow

John Keppie of Honeyman, Keppie and Mackintosh, 1906 for

Glasgow City Improvement Trust. Long 4-storey tenement with

altered shops at ground floor. Astylar with Art Nouveau

detailing. Red ashlar. Staircase in outer bays giving access

to open rear access balconies with metal handrails. 3

repeating sections with flanking splayed bays set in

pilastered recesses under stylised segmental pediments; 2

single-light bays with City of Glasgow coat of arms, dated

1907, to centre of each section. Stacks flanked by convex

parapets with metal handrails; Open pediments and keyblocks

to entrances. Grilled openings coupled in giant recesses with

swags over. Keyblocked, arched upper windows in rectangular

surrounds and gablets rising through balustrades. Modillion

cornice to shops with glazed fanlights. Ground floor

treatment repeated in Cowcaddens Street. Corner with circular

tower wth slated dome; moulded cornice with cartouches. 1 bay

of paired lights under stylised segmental pediment links

stair tower to corner turret on Hope Street; 3 bays to

Cowcaddens Street with end pedimented bay.