24-544: The Glasgow Stock Exchange is a prominent building and former financial institution in the centre of the city of Glasgow , Scotland . The exchange was founded in 1844. In 1973, it merged with the London Stock Exchange . As of 2019 the building is occupied by shops, government and other offices. The current building was erected between 1875 and 1877. It is situated on the corner of Nelson Mandela Place (prior to 1986 known as St George's Place) and Buchanan Street ,
48-419: A café, free Internet access terminals, multimedia, art, and general book-lending facilities. Exhibits include works by David Hockney , Sebastião Salgado , and Andy Warhol as well as Scottish artists such as John Bellany and Ken Currie . The mirrored pediment on the exterior of the building is by artist Niki de Saint Phalle , entitled Tympanum (1996). Saint Phalle also installed the mirrored vestibule to
72-420: A double row of monolithic Corinthian columns and spanned by a 30ft high richly ornamented arched ceiling." Special book-cases were aligned with the columns, lit by fluorescent lighting to illuminate the books. There was a collection of over 100 books on the pictorial arts, 300 volumes of music books and scores, and 800 books for parents. Seven-foot-high (2.1-metre) display units were used to display items. There
96-830: A number of theatres and concert venues, including the Tron Theatre , the Old Fruitmarket, the Trades Hall, St Andrew's in the Square , Merchant Square, and the City Halls . A large part of Glasgow's LGBT scene is located within the Merchant City. This includes many clubs, along with a couple of saunas. Recently the city council defined (and perhaps expanded) the area known as Merchant City as far west as Buchanan Street , marking these boundaries with new, highly stylised metal signage. To
120-480: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This finance-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to Glasgow , Scotland , is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Glasgow city centre Glasgow City Centre is the central business district of Glasgow , Scotland . It is bordered by the Saltmarket, High Street and Castle Street to
144-453: Is also home to a number of high end boutique style shops and some of Glasgow's most upmarket stores. The Merchant City is the centre of Glasgow's growing 'cultural quarter', based on King Street, the Saltmarket and Trongate , and at the heart of the annual Merchant City Festival . The area has supported a huge growth in art galleries, the origins of which can be found in the late 80s when it attracted artist-led organisations that could afford
168-597: Is the main gallery of contemporary art in Glasgow , Scotland. GoMA offers a programme of temporary exhibitions and workshops. GoMA displays work by local and international artists as well as addressing contemporary social issues through its major biannual projects. Opened in 1996, the Gallery of Modern Art is housed in a neoclassical building in Royal Exchange Square in the heart of Glasgow city centre. Built in 1778 as
192-654: The Royal Bank of Scotland . The Ministry of Defence have several departments and Clydeport , the Glasgow Stock Exchange , Student Loans Company , Scottish Executive Enterprise, Transport and Lifelong Learning Department , BT Group , Scottish Qualifications Authority and Scottish Enterprise also have their headquarters in the district. 55°51′46″N 4°15′15″W / 55.86279°N 4.25424°W / 55.86279; -4.25424 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow The Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA)
216-812: The St. Enoch Centre , with the up-market Princes Square and the Italian Centre specialising in designer labels. Glasgow is generally recognised as the United Kingdom 's second largest and most economically important retail sector after Central London . The city centre is home to most of Glasgow's main cultural venues: The Theatre Royal (home of Scottish Opera and formerly Scottish Ballet which now resides in The Tramway Theatre ), The Pavilion , The King's Theatre , Glasgow Royal Concert Hall , Glasgow Film Theatre , Gallery of Modern Art (GoMA), Mitchell Library ,
240-506: The townhouse of William Cunninghame of Lainshaw, a wealthy Glasgow Tobacco Lord who made his fortune through the triangular slave trade , the building has undergone a series of different uses. It was bought in 1817 by the Royal Bank of Scotland who later moved onto Buchanan Street ; it then became the Royal Exchange. Reconstruction for this use was undertaken by David Hamilton between 1827 and 1832 and resulted in many additions to
264-459: The 15th century Glasgow Cathedral and the Provand's Lordship . Due to growing industrial pollution levels in the mid to late 19th century, the area fell out of favour with residents. From the late 1980s onwards, the Merchant City has been rejuvenated with luxury city centre apartments and warehouse conversions . This regeneration has supported an increasing number of cafés and restaurants. The area
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#1732854808168288-527: The Centre for Contemporary Arts, McLellan Galleries and The Lighthouse Museum of Architecture, Design and the City . The world's tallest cinema, the eighteen-screen Cineworld , is situated on Renfrew Street. The city centre is also home to four of Glasgow's higher education institutions: The University of Strathclyde , The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland , Glasgow School of Art and Glasgow Caledonian University . To
312-575: The River Clyde. The heart of the city is George Square , site of many of Glasgow's public statues and the elaborate Victorian Glasgow City Chambers , headquarters of Glasgow City Council . To the south and west are the shopping precincts of Argyle Street , Sauchiehall Street and Buchanan Street , the latter featuring more upmarket retailers and winner of the Academy of Urbanism 'Great Street Award' 2008. The main shopping centres are Buchanan Galleries and
336-706: The building, namely the Corinthian pillars to the Queen Street facade, the cupola above and the large hall to the rear of the old house. In 1954, after purchasing the building for £105,000 in 1949, Glasgow District Libraries moved the Stirling's Library into the building. It also housed the Library of Patents and the Commercial Library. It was described as: "A magnificent hall, 110 ft. by 60 ft.,... divided in to three parts by
360-450: The cheap rents required to operate in vacant manufacturing or retail spaces. The artistic and cultural potential of the Merchant City as a 'cultural quarter' was harnessed by independent arts organisations and Glasgow City Council , and the recent development of Trongate 103, which houses galleries, workshops, artist studios and production spaces, is considered a major outcome of the continued partnership between both. The area also contains
384-524: The east is the commercial and residential district of Merchant City . The Merchant City was formerly the residential district of the wealthy city merchants in the 18th and early 19th centuries, particularly the Tobacco Lords from whom many of the streets take their name. As the Industrial Revolution and the wealth it brought to the city resulted in the expansion of Glasgow's central area westward,
408-443: The east, the River Clyde to the south, and the M8 motorway to the west and north. It is made up of the areas of Garnethill , Blythswood Hill , and Merchant City , though parts of Cowcaddens , Townhead , Anderston and Calton also fall within its boundaries. The city centre is based on a grid system of streets, similar to that of Barcelona or American cities, on the north bank of
432-510: The gallery. In front of the gallery, on the Queen Street pavement, stands an equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington sculpted by Carlo Marochetti in 1844. The statue usually has a traffic cone on its head; for many years the authorities regularly removed cones, only for them to be replaced. The jauntily placed cone has come to represent, particularly in tourist guidebooks, the city's light-hearted attitude to authority. Two exceptions were on
456-562: The occasion of Glasgow hosting the 2002 UEFA Champions League final, when the cone was replaced by a football-patterned hat bearing the logo of one of the tournament sponsors, Amstel , and in June 2010, on the run-up to the opening of hotel chain citizenM in Glasgow, when the cone was replaced with a 'feel free' branded glitter cone. Around the time of the Independence Referendum, a saltire
480-487: The original medieval centre was left behind. Glasgow Cross, situated at the junction of High Street , Gallowgate, Trongate and Saltmarket was the original centre of the city, symbolised by its Mercat cross . Glasgow Cross encompasses the Tolbooth Clock Tower; all that remains of the original City Chambers , which was destroyed by fire in 1926. Moving northward up High Street towards Rottenrow and Townhead lies
504-806: The way for the IFSD to become one of the UKs largest financial quarters. With a reputation as an established financial services centre, coupled with comprehensive support services, Glasgow continues to attract and grow new business. Of the 10 largest general insurance companies in the UK, 8 have a base or head office in Glasgow - including Direct Line , Esure , AXA and Norwich Union . Key banking sector companies have also relocated some of their services to commercial property in Glasgow - Resolution , JPMorgan Chase , Abbey , HBOS , Barclays Wealth, Tesco Personal Finance, Morgan Stanley , Lloyds TSB , Clydesdale Bank , BNP Paribas , HSBC and
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#1732854808168528-539: The western edge of the city centre, occupying the areas of Blythswood Holm and the southern edges of Blythswood Hill , lies Glasgow's financial district, known officially as the International Financial Services District (IFSD), although often irreverently nicknamed by the contemporary press as the "square kilometre" or "Wall Street on Clyde". Since the late 1980s the construction of many modern office blocks and high rise developments have paved
552-409: Was a magazine room with seating for fifty readers. When the library returned to Miller Street, the building was refurbished to house the city's contemporary art collection. Since its opening in 1996, the gallery has hosted several million visitors. It has a dedicated Education and Access studio, facilitating workshops and artists talks and in the basement a Learning Library. The building also contains
576-688: Was designed by John Burnet in the Venetian Gothic style, believed to have been inspired by the Royal Courts of Justice . In 1906, an extension was added in St George's Place and the entire building was remodelled between 1969 and 1971. The structure is now protected as a category A listed building . 55°51′42″N 4°15′14″W / 55.86177°N 4.25391°W / 55.86177; -4.25391 This article about an organisation in Scotland
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