Jon-Marc Creaney said: “I liked this building. In it’s industrial backland setting, it reflected the purpose and function of the building rather than being a simple cheap industrial shed, as simple as that!”

“The Bank of Pakistan always seemed a strange building to me. Although Sauchiehall Street has nearly every architectural style one can think of at some point along its length I could never quite place it, probably post-modernist.

“Unfortunately it probably outgrew it’s use and was unsuitable for refurbishment due to is form and previous function. ”

These qualities have not gone unnoted in various architecture guides describing an ‘enigmatic, triangular patterned stone facade and marbled door surround open(ing) into a brilliantly lit interior with Egyptian detail and mastery of spatial effects.’ So regaled Central Glasgow, An Illustrated Architectural Guide, McKean, Walker and Walker.

Image taken by Adrian Welch.

“I spent months stencilling up plans and title boxes, all in the days before CAD.

“The building apparently inspired a whole collection of white boxes from the Strathclye Architecture Students.

“The Press Bar wanted too much money to move so the building wrapped round it.”