Glasgow Liberal Club, 2 Nelson Mandela Place, Glasgow

The Glasgow Liberal Club, located at 2 Nelson Mandela Place in Glasgow, was designed by A N Paterson of Campbell Douglas and Paterson and built between 1908 and 1910. This building showcases Edwardian Baroque architecture and stands five storeys tall with an attic and a sunk basement, featuring three main bays across its façade.

The exterior is finished in polished ashlar, with a channelled ground floor. A deep corbelled balustraded balcony is present on the first floor, which is interrupted at the first bay from the east, facing Nelson Mandela Place. The building is topped with a modillion cornice and a balustraded parapet that has raised, corniced dies. In the attic, there are open pedimented aedicule windows with keyblocks at the angles.

On the elevation facing Nelson Mandela Place, there is a prominent giant open segmentally pedimented central doorpiece supported by lion mask corbels, flanked by plain lights. The first and second floors feature a shallow canted central tripartite bay, which is flanked by vertically linked bipartite windows. The ground floor windows are corniced with incised architraves, while the first and second floors have decorative architraves. The third floor includes two-light architraved windows with stone transomes, and the fourth floor has single architraved lights.

The elevation to Buchanan Street mirrors the window arrangement of the Nelson Mandela Place side, with a central advanced three-bay section flanked by pilaster strips.

Inside, the finishes were executed by Wylie and Lochhead, with contributions from Guthrie Wells and Scott Morton, and the plasterwork was completed by George Bankart.