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Interior. View of banking hall .

SC 701340

Description Interior. View of banking hall .

Date 1927

Collection Records of Bedford Lemere and Company, photographers, London, England

Catalogue Number SC 701340

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of BL 29588

Scope and Content Banking Hall, Union Bank of Scotland, Nos 110-20 St Vincent Street, Glasgow (now the Bank of Scotland) The Union Bank of Scotland, the head office of the bank in Glasgow, was designed in 1925-7 in an American Classical style by the Glasgow architect, James Miller. The architectural photographer, Harry Bedford Lemere, was commissioned to photograph the interior in 1927. The banking hall, designed on a grand scale, is a top-lit atrium with marble walls and monumental marble Doric columns supporting the superstructure. The straight lines of the balcony's metal grille (foreground) and the flamboyant electric torchère (right) help to emphasis the building's Classical form. The interior of the bank was inspired by the transatlantic Classicism of the Guaranty Trust Building in New York, designed by York & Sawyer in 1913, and one of the great icons to Capitalism at that time. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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File Format (TIF) Tagged Image File Format bitmap

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