A grey Glasgow day.

After I'd been at church today I made my way down to Queen Street to visit the art shop there. I'd beeen give a voucher to spend and they had one of my favourite brands of paint on special offer.

The photo features one of the two archway entrances to Royal Exchange Square .The former Royal Exchange building was erected in 1778-1780 as the town house of William Cuninghame of Lainshaw, a rich tobacco lord, and was acquired in 1817 by the Royal Bank of Scotland. Ten years later the architect David Hamilton began converting it to become the city's new Exchange, adding features such as the double portico facade and a cupola and a newsroom.

The Exchange served as a meeting place where merchants and other businessmen gathered to deal in commodities such as coal, iron and sugar and in services such as shipping and insurance. The city's first telephone exchange was located here in 1880. Ironically, the need for a business exchange building declined once telephones came into common use. The Corporation acquired the Royal Exchange in 1949 and five years later Stirling's Library was relocated there from Miller Street. In 1996 the building was converted to house the Gallery of Modern Art.

The man in the photo sits in that position every day despite the weather.
The extra shows the Neo Classical detail on GOMA.