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Hahaha, not really a publishing success, the first 50 sold at £10.00 a go and lost £1.87p on each.

Step 1 : Ask minion to create Sketchup model
Step 2 : Ask minion to Export JPG of requested perspective
Step 3 : Trace over image and pass off as free-hand

Step 1 : Ask minion to create Sketchup model
Step 2 : Ask minion to Export JPG of requested perspective
Step 3 : Trace over image and pass off as free-hand

hahaha aye right enough Equasliser, minions that's the answer.

Very nice drawings. There's always something special about seeing a human hand at work in an age of computer fakery.

I just wish the actual architecture presented wasn't so constrained by this boxy/angular/boringness that sadly seems to manifest itself in Scotland.

I wish today's architecture matched the actual brilliance of Glasgow's sandstone buildings.

....which we all know are curvy, free flowing organic shapes Barry.....

Oh no wait.

@Matt

No, just architecture which actually had ambition and was predictable, boring and bland.

Ya know, like what much of Glasgow actually used to have.

I mean, why have renovate a stunning tenement when we can have a brick and render masterpiece. It's what dreams are made of!

True dat.

That said, I'd say Mr. Dunlop is one of a few architects in Glasgow who do a fair bit more than throw up brick and rendered generic. Although I'm not clear if you're criticising Alan's architecture or his subject matter in your original post...

@Matt

I wasn't criticising Alan Dunlop at all. His drawings are brilliant,really beautiful things in a computer age to see such nice hand drawings.

I was actually just making a point as you correctly observe regarding the subject matter more than anything else.And that's not his doing. I always just feel there's an overwhelming lack of ambition in general and hence in Scotland there appears to be a clichéd style of blandness.

There's always glimpses of something beyond the ordinary with the likes of the Radisson hotel which is a smart wee building.It really transformed the local area and was good architecture.A great addition to Glasgow.

I think Scotland is an incredibly creative country. But I don't think we utilise our creative people to their best effect. But that's just me opinion.I think Alan Dunlop's talents could be better utilised and I belivee he has lambasted the way competitions are run (favouring foreign practices) which is something I agree with.

I think Glasgow's an amazing city -- it truly has some of my favourite architecture and streetscapes. It's a city unlike any other in the UK.

I just wish that today's architecture (constrained by budgets, silly planning etc) had the same ambition as the past so that the present was of a standard we know to be great.

But of course, that's very wishful and idealistic. But hey, we can but dream.....

Everything I draw seems to resemble 1970s brutalist Architecture, just can't help it.

PS Equaliser - Shhhh ;-)

@Alan Dunlop

Your drawings are superb.Better than what most the CAD monkeys can produce nowadays. lol

Brilliant! How to you get a hard copy it’s not clear from the website. I bought the last one hard copy, is this for sale?

Sorry Mark, the Glasgow Sketchbook is not for sale but can be downloaded free from the "work" section of my website, the resolution is fine just takes a minute or so to download.
www.alandunloparchitects.com

Organising, commercially printing, packaging and posting hard copies of the first was too much hassle I'm afraid.

Cracking!