50-52 Argyle Street, Glasgow

50-52 Argyle Street is an 8-storey office building designed by J A Campbell in 1905, showcasing an American architectural style on a corner site. The building features red sandstone ashlar on the street elevations and brick on the side and rear. The ground floor is adorned with polished granite and unusually carved capitals, reflecting a combination of Mannerist and Glasgow Style details.

On Argyle Street, the building has channelled quoins at the ground and first floor, with mullions at the first floor. There are cartouches between the first-floor bays at the bases of giant pilaster strips that have consoled plinths. Narrow giant pilaster strips divide the central three windows. The outer oriels are canted from the second to the fifth floor and are corbelled at the base, featuring segmental aedicules above the central fifth-floor lights and bridges at the sixth-floor balcony parapet. The sixth and seventh floors display plain tripartite windows, with the centre bay raised in a blocking course.

On Miller Street, there is a doorway in the bay to the right of centre, complete with a keystone and a consoled balcony above. The outer right bay at ground level has been altered to include a doorway with a swagged, strapworked cartouche above it. The building has four bipartite bays from the first to the seventh floors, which are stepped for the stairwell in the right bays. There is a dividing cornice at the sixth-floor cill and a mannered aedicule between the fifth and sixth floors of the stair bay, with single windows above. The northern (rear) side features a wide, projecting brick bay.