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Architecture Notes
Event ID 681990
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/681990
ARCHITECT: George Bell 1867
C J Phipps 1895 (interior)
Inglis Collection photographs to be added to Collection list
(Undated) information in NMRS.
Built as James Baylis's Royal Colosseum. Originally entered through arcade from Cowcaddens.
Now home of Scottish Opera. New foyer by Derek Sugden, Arup Associates 1974-5.
C McKean, D Walker and F A Walker 1989.
