Scottish Opera Offices, 39 Elmbank Crescent, Glasgow

The Scottish Opera Offices, located at 39 Elmbank Crescent in Glasgow, were designed by John B Wilson and built between 1906 and 1908, with a date of 1907 noted. This impressive building features three stories, a basement, and an attic, and is designed in a Baroque style as a corner block that returns to Elmbank Street. It has a total of three by five bays, plus four additional bays. The façade is pilastered above the ground floor, with a prominent Ionic doorpiece and a shaped open pediment. The building is constructed of ashlar stone, which is channelled at the ground floor.

On the Elmbank Street elevation, there is a projecting wide central bay that showcases giant Ionic columns and pilasters, with a bracketted balcony and an open segmental pediment featuring a consoled pedestal behind it. The first-floor window is pedimented, and the outer bays on the first and second floors include a central giant pilaster and half outer pilasters, with moulded panels beneath the architraved windows, and keyblocked windows on the first floor. The gable facing Elmbank Crescent is wide and pedimented, with a central bay that is recessed and features engaged Ionic columns at the angles, along with a central oriel and segmentally pedimented windows in the outer bays. A Diocletian window is present in the pediment, along with sculpted escutcheons.

Inside, the entrance hall is pilastered and features sculpted capitals and an inlaid marble floor. There is a columned stair screen with a marble parapet, and the staircase includes columned landings and screens. To the left of the entrance hall is a columned room with a coffered, corniced ceiling. The entrance hall also boasts a domed roof lantern with elaborate plasterwork. On the second floor, there is a large pilastered hall, and further original interior features remain intact. Additionally, there is a memorial panel in the entrance hall dedicated to the engineers of the Titanic, complete with sculpted figures above it.