Princes Square
Glass-roofed Victorian courtyard of boutiques and cafes, crowned by a giant wrought-iron peacock.
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This guide to Princes Square in Glasgow looks at the creatures and plants that live on its Buchanan Street front, all of them made of metal. You'll meet the ironwork artist Alan Dawson, the blacksmiths and engineers he worked with, and the architects who doubted his promises in the late nineteen-eighties. It also follows a sculptor and a design studio who made leaves grow from Victorian sandstone. Start on the pavement, a few steps back from the entrance, looking up.
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