St Andrew House

St Andrew House (now styled as the Premier Inn Glasgow Buchanan Galleries) is a prominent 18–storey high rise building situated on West Nile Street in the city of Glasgow, Scotland. The 71-metre (233 ft) building was completed and opened in 1964 as an office building, however, it was purchased by Premier Inn hotel chain owners Whitebread Hotels in 2008. Work commenced to refurbish the building in 2010 to turn the vacant office space into a budget hotel. The building reopened as a Premier Inn, named Premier Inn Glasgow Buchanan Galleries, in October 2012. At 71 metres (233 ft), St Andrew House is currently the 15th tallest building in Glasgow, behind the 73 m (240 ft) Glasgow City Chambers and ahead of Hilton Glasgow at 70 m (230 ft).

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Glasgow Empire Theatre

Glasgow Empire Theatre, known as the Glasgow Palace Empire until the early 1900s, was a major theatre in Glasgow, Scotland, which opened in 1897 on the site of the Gaiety Theatre at 31–35 Sauchiehall Street. It was one of the leading theatres in the UK chain of theatres owned and developed by Moss Empires under the chairmanship of Sir Edward Moss, who served his apprenticeship in Greenock and elsewhere.

Cineworld Glasgow

Cineworld Glasgow Renfrew Street (soon to be rebranded as Omniplex Glasgow) is a currently closed cinema on Renfrew Street, Glasgow, Scotland, located in the north-east of the city centre. The cinema, which was first operated by UGC, then by Cineworld and currently by Omniplex Cinemas, opened in September 2001. The cinema building is still present and is located next to Buchanan Bus Station and the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. At 62 m (203 ft) tall, the building is the tallest cinema complex in the world. The building is equivalent in height to the 18-storey St Andrew House which stands immediately adjacent.

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Royalty Theatre, Glasgow

The Royalty Theatre, Glasgow (later the Lyric Theatre) was a theatre in Glasgow at the corner of Sauchiehall Street and Renfield Street. It was built in 1879 as part of a development by the Central Halls Company chaired by David Rattray, and was one of the first theatre designs of Frank Matcham. In 1895 it was one of the four theatres brought together by Baillie Michael Simons of Glasgow in a new company Howard & Wyndham Ltd. The Royalty staged plays, opera, and musical comedy and later became home to repertory theatre The author and journalist Neil Munro had an association with the Royalty Theatre. In his Erchie MacPherson story, "Jinnet's First Play", first published in the Glasgow Evening News on 24 October 1904, Munro has Erchie take his wife Jinnet to a production of Arthur Wing Pinero's play Letty at the Royalty. Five years later, Erchie MacPherson featured as the main character in his play Macpherson, produced by the Scottish Playgoers Ltd. at the theatre in 1909. The Royalty became the Lyric Theatre in 1914 when it was sold to the YMCA. It was rebuilt after a fire in 1953 but demolished in 1959, and replaced by St. Andrew House, a large concrete office block, which is now an hotel.

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The Apollo, Glasgow

The Apollo was a music venue at 126 Renfield Street in Glasgow city centre, Scotland. The Apollo operated from 5 September 1973 until closure on 16 June 1985 and was Glasgow's leading music venue during this period. The Apollo was a re-brand of the previous Green's Playhouse in the same building.