Hospitality Meets Office Design in Glasgow
O ye’ll take the high road, and I’ll take the low road, and I’ll be in Glasgow afore ye. Scotland’s largest city (population 600,000), the port on the River Clyde in Scotland’s western Lowlands, abounds in Victorian and art nouveau architecture, including design icons such as the Glasgow School of Art and the Willow Tea Rooms by native son Charles Rennie Mackintosh. My first morning’s news broadcast across the pond announcing that Glasgow is the most productive city in Great Britain didn’t surprise me. A few days earlier I had seen a manifestation of the ambitious Scots when I went to my local bank branch asking for $200 worth of pounds in spending money for my trip. The teller asked if I wanted the currency in British or Scottish pounds. A Scottish pound? Who knew? Glasgow is also of interest because multidisciplinary design firm Graven Images has fresh insights on …
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