Gardner’s Warehouse                                                   Private collection

Jamaica Street, Glasgow

1855-6

John Baird Sen.

600 450 mm.

Ink, watercolour, acrylic and gold pen on paper

One of the very earliest examples of prefabricated ‘modern’ building construction. The main elevations are entirely of cast-iron and plate glass, a revolutionary approach to building the led ultimately to the early skyscrapers of N. America.