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Great afternoon out at the EdinBrick Lego event today - loads of amazing stuff but was especially taken by this amazing and oddly familiar looking building… 🙂

NOW OPEN! 'Fergus and Meg: A Creative Partnership' @perthartgallery, supported by the J. D. Fergusson Art Foundation, about the Scottish Colourist John Duncan Fergusson and his partner, the dance pioneer Margaret Morris. Info: bit.ly/4aoUe2T Image: Sally Jubb

Design for an advertising label for Bassett-Lowke Ltd. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1920. Image: Hunterian

Glasgow is a city of stories and storytellers. It is so wrong that Glasgow's book festival has been cancelled with just weeks to go. Aye Write is one of Scotland's biggest and most beloved book festivals - it is vital for readers and writers across Scotland and beyond.

Terrible news about the cancellation of @AyeWrite and Wee Write. Times are tough but the lack of will to sustain a flagship event in Scotland’s largest city is wretched, and casts a shadow over the whole sector.

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: I’m still on a mission to spot these so for #IronworkThursday here’s a set of bay windows on Royal Terrace in the Park District which date from 1845 and have beautiful cast-iron mullions with composite capitals supporting the blonde sandstone 👀👇🥰!

OPENS TODAY! 'A Scottish Colourist at 150: John Duncan Fergusson', an exhibition organised by @LyonandTurnbull and @FlemingArtColl, opens today at L&T's Glasgow gallery. It includes Boulevard Edgar Quinet of 1909 .Info: bit.ly/47QYvdx Image courtesy @culturepandk

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: Did you know that the two entrances to the Merchants House have male and female characteristics? The east entrance on George Square has twin caryatid brackets whereas the north entrance on West George Street has a stern Old Father Clyde keystone 🥰!

EVENT // Our Spring Lecture Series concludes next week, as Katriona Byrne talks about the material heritage of Vitrolite shopfronts, bringing modernity to Britain’s high streets. 🗓️Thu 7 Mar, 6:30pm. Watch online or in-person. 🎟️Book: c20society.org.uk/events

Many thanks to all who came along on the @GlasgowHeritage & @UnderOneRoofSco #LookingUpAndLookingOut walking tour of the Merchant City. It was all about #TenementMaintenance, blocked gutters & saturated stonework, pigeon guano leading to plant growth, & scaffolding issues👇👀🤔!

Design for the upper bedroom, Westdel, Glasgow- elevation of the west wall. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. c.1900. Image: Hunterian

Great afternoon and good turnout in Dundee for the @Ihbcscotland AGM, hosted by @DHET - with fascinating tour round parts of Dundee that other organisations cannot reach!

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: For #IronworkThursday, it’s normally assumed that these magnificent lampbrackets on George Square by ironfounders, McDowall, Steven & Co are contemporaneous with the City Chambers when in fact they are a decade younger dating from circa 1900…🤔🥰!

📢Join us and help shape the future of C20 Society! We're recruiting new Trustees to join our board and broaden our expertise. We particularly welcome applications from early-career professionals. Application deadline: Monday 8th April. ➡️More info: c20society.org.uk/work-with-us

A wonderful selection of legendary lensman Bert Hardy's Picture Post shots of Glasgow. What the article oddly fails to mention is that London's Photographers' Gallery is staging a major retrospective of his work, which opens tomorrow. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Waverley features in "Window Wonderland" Residents of Cathcart in Glasgow are the latest in the UK to showcase their creativity by decorating their windows. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Settle for Dunglass Castle. Charles Rennie Mackintosh. 1900. Image: NMS

Using the most up to date data we could source we have mapped the current disposal/retention status of Church of Scotland churches. 💒 Read about the ongoing crisis confronting Scotland's religious built heritage and view the map on our website here 👇 scotlandschurchestrust.org.uk/blog/scotlands…

#MomentsOfBeauty in #Glasgow: The Merchant City is a place of carefully controlled and composed views and focal points, but occasionally you unexpectedly come across one you’ve not seen before such as the water tank tower on Argyll Chambers with its skew-whiff ocular window 👀🥰!

Nice to see a BIG cherry picker with high level platform taking part in an inspection of the high level stonework on the former Glasgow Herald Building on #Glasgow’s Buchanan Street. The pedimented dormers are quite exposed so it’s worth regularly checking their integrity 🤔👍!