Anything other than this will risk destorying a key aspect of the city's Victorian streetscape which helps make it such a unique place to live and to visit.

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This is an important location for the city, and Gordon Street is packed with many magnificent Victorian buildings (top right, bottom left and bottom right). It's also the first street many people see after arriving at Central Station.

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Once the dust finally settles after the fire in the Union Corner Building in Glasgow (top left), attention will undoubtedly turn to how to fill the gap it has left behind.

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Sketch of #Glasgow Central Station and the site of the fire at #GordonStreet. Artist name unknown.

On the left is the Ca'D'Oro, another listed building at the same junction, which was gutted by a fire 1987, but was successfully rebuilt within a couple of years, although it has an iron facade which made this much easier to achieve.

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The view from Gordon Street, showing the remaining facade of the Union Corner building. With nothing to support it and due to the heat from the fire, it's likely to be structurally unsound.

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The ornate cupola and roof lantern of the former John Black and Sons Warehouse on Gordon Street in central Glasgow. Designed by Boucher and Cousland in 1858, it was altered by J.J. Burnet in the late 1890s and early 1900s.

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Attributed by James Young, this is one of the few achitectural sculptures with an overtly biblical inspiration in the city's Victorian financial district.

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The Parable of the Wise and Foolish Virgins on the 1890s Standard Buildings on Gordon Street in central Glasgow.

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The Gordon Street facade of Glasgow's Central Station. Designed by R. R. Anderson, it was built in the 1880s.

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The imposing former Commercial Bank of Scotland building on Gordon Street in Glasgow (now home to the Royal Bank fo Scotland). Designed in a Renaissance style by David Rhind, with sculptures by Handyside Ritchie, it was built in 1854.

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Love these arches with keystone masks on the Royal Bank of Scotland on Gordon Street in Glasgow. Created by David Rhind with sculptures by Handyside Ritchie, it was build for the Commercial Bank of Scotland in 1854.

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