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Argyll Arcade : Glasgow Jewellery Shops on Argyle Street

Glasgow Jewellers, Buchanan Street Retail, Strathclyde – Luxury Scottish Stores in the city centre

post updated 17 February 2025

Shopping Mall, 30 Buchanan Street, Glasgow, Scotland

Also known as Argyle Street Arcade

Historic Glaswegian shopping mall © image Adrian Welch

Argyle Street Arcade Glasgow

Address: Argyll Arcade Shopping Mall (note Argyle or Argyll are both used)

30 Buchanan Street / Argyll St, Glasgow G2 8LP

Contact: 0141 221 6680

One of Britain’s oldest covered shopping arcades.

This Glasgow arcade was built in 1827, and is famous for jewellery shops.

Historic Shopping Mall © image Adrian Welch

Glasgow Jewellers

Argyll Arcade Glasgow is a covered street which has 32 jewellers under one roof. John Baird designed the Arcade’s ornate iron-framed hammerbeam roof.

The L-shaped arcade was built in 1904 and houses many local jewellery designers’ shops and antique jewellers’ shops.

Nearest metro to Argyll Arcade Glasgow: Buchanan Street

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Shopping Architecture in Glasgow

Glasgow Shops

Contemporary Glasgow Shopping Property Designs – recent Strathclyde retail architectural selection below:

Italian Centre – shops in the heart of the Merchant City:

photo © Adrian Welch
Italian Centre

St Enoch Centre Glasgow Redevelopment

Glasgow Building Designs

Argyle Street Property Designs – recent Strathclyde architectural selection below:

Brunswick Hotel, Merchant City
Brunswick Hotel

Radisson Hotel
Design: gm+ad architects

Argyle Street Housing

photo : Keith Hunter

Argyle Hotel

picture from architect

Argyle Street Glasgow Hotel

picture from architect studio

Argyle Street is a major thoroughfare – the longest street by distance in the city centre, running for 2.1 miles (3.4 km).

With Buchanan Street and Sauchiehall Street, Argyle Street is one of the main shopping streets in the city centre.

It begins in the south-eastern corner of the city centre, at the Trongate, where it is pedestrianised as far as Queen Street. This section forms the major shopping section of the road, including the St. Enoch Centre and the Argyll Arcade (a Victorian arcade principally containing jewellers). Closed to most traffic, this section forms a taxi and bus corridor for services travelling to the east and south-east of the city.

Website: Argyle Street Glasgow

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