Title: ‘Hugh and David Barclay and the Golden Summer of Glasgow’s Architecture’
Niall Murphy is the Director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust and is a conservation architect, heavily involved in heritage, conservation and community issues in Glasgow. Niall is also Chair of Govanhill Baths Building Preservation Trust who are in charge of getting the finest surviving Edwardian Baths complex in Glasgow back into sustainable use as a Health and Wellbeing Centre. He helped setup and secure funding for the ‘Make Your Mark’ East Pollokshields and Port Eglinton Charrette in 2016 having previously been chair of Pollokshields Heritage, Planning Convener for Pollokshields Community Council and a member of the Glasgow Urban Design Panel. Between 2016 – 2018 he was invited by the Minister for Local Government and Housing to be a member of the Development Management Working Group for the Scottish Government’s Planning Review.
Niall regularly lectures or does walking tours on architecture, heritage, and urban design issues. Niall has won the Glasgow Doors Open Day Excellence Award for Outstanding Talk (2023) and for Inspiring City Tour (2017), the Glasgow Doors Open Day Above and Beyond Award (2014), the Sir Robert Lorimer Award for Sketching (1996) and, in addition to nominations for Saltire Awards and GIA Awards was nominated for the Scottish Civic Trust’s My Place Award for Civic Champion in 2015.
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