Events


Scotland's Organic Food Festival

Doors Open Day and Glasgow's Built Heritage Festival offers the most extensive and concentrated programme of tours and other events of any of Glasgow's cultural festivals. One of the key themes we are highlighting as part of the heritage festival is traditional building skills and materials.

List all events by day

Supported by

Evening Times logo
Site supported by www.eveningtimes.co.uk

Glasgow Building Heritage

Doors Open Days - Glasgow's Built Heritage Festival, showcases every part of the city reflecting Glaswegian pride in our unique built environment.

This is our 19th year and the event is even bigger and better with more than 135 buildings old and new open free to the public over the weekend of Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 September 2008.

In this section you can browse all the buildings which are open this year as well as view their locations on a map.

We've split the list of buildings into five key areas of the city.

Central Glasgow

Central Glasgow

The core of the city incorporating the Merchant City - one of the best shopping centres in the UK.


Glasgow West

Glasgow West

With a predominantly bohemian feel to it, a compact area with a rich collection of buildings, churches, museums.

Glasgow East

Glasgow East

Formerly the hub of heavy industries in Glasgow, with pockets of architectural interest and very warm people is definitely a place to visit..

Glasgow South

Glasgow South

Covering a large area south of the River Clyde there are many interesting and unusual places to explore, such as Castlemilk.


Greater Easterhouse

Greater Easterhouse

This neighbourhood was built mainly in the 1970's on an area of huge historical significance extending back to medieval times

Show only


Or search for a building:

find

View buildings in Glasgow on our map

google map


Suggested Buildings

Every year more buildings ask to be involved. There are so many buildings with such diversity it is not easy to select just a few to recommend, but if you are not sure where to start we have provided a very short list of suggestions.

  1. St. Andrew's in the Square
  2. Castlemilk Stables
  3. Provan Hall
  4. Speirs Wharf
  5. East End Healthy Living Centre
  6. Hazelwood School
  7. Govanhill Baths
  8. Glasgow Steiner School
  9. Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum
  10. Holmwood House