3: City Centre
The City Centre’s great urban canyons, laid out on a grid in much the same
way as Manhattan’s streets and avenues, emanate from George Square.
The venue for the Glasgow Art Fair in March, the square is overlooked
by the grand City Chambers, built in the 1880s at the height of the
city’s wealth.
Having checked out the chambers’ extravagant interior, cruise between
arcades and buskers on thoroughfares such as Buchanan St. The city’s only
wholly pedestrianised street, Buchanan St runs south from the Glasgow
Royal Concert Hall, home of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra.
People from across Glasgow gather in the City Centre, from foxy
fashionistas to nicotine-stained old-timers. Standing in the crowd and
gazing up at the towering Victorian buildings, it’s easy to imagine yourself
in New York, particularly if a busker breaks out a Bob Dylan cover.
Glasgow Style
There is some Mackintoshania here, relating to Glasgow’s famous
architect. The Willow Tea Rooms is an authentic reconstruction of the
art nouveau tearooms Mackintosh designed and furnished in 1904. You
can see his distinctive stroke in just about everything, right down to the
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