Templeton Building
Venetian Gothic former carpet factory with a vivid polychrome facade modelled on the Doge's Palace.
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This guide to the Templeton Building on Glasgow Green follows William Leiper, an architect who also studied painting in Paris, and the carpet firm that hired him after the city council kept turning down its factory plans. It looks at how a Venetian palace ended up fronting a Victorian mill, and what a painter's eye for colour did to an industrial wall. Best heard from the edge of the Green, with the full facade in view.
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