{ "tours" : [{ "id": "5539", "title": "A Brisk Walk", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/typographical_feature.jpg", "excerpt": "A happy new beginning Not so much a happy ending as a happy new beginning. There's new life for the old clay pipe factory, now reborn as artists' workshop and exhibition space. It is a […]", "stops": [{ "id": "5328", "title": "Introduction to A Brisk Walk", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/introduction_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.8661935", "map_lng": "-4.269846400000006", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/01-Introduction.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/introduction_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "Introducing an architecture tour with a twist Meet Johnny Rodger, Professor of Urban Literature at Glasgow School of Art, who leads this tour through the past, present and uncertain future of some of the most […]"},{ "id": "5498", "title": "520 Sauchiehall Street", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/520Sauchiehall_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.86635399999999", "map_lng": "-4.269723099999965", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/02-520-Sauchiehall-Street.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/520Sauchiehall_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "It's complicated Piano seller Thomas Ewing might be surprised to see what has happened to the red sandstone building first designed for him by David Paton Low in around 1895. It has had many identities […]"},{ "id": "5503", "title": "Footnotes: from 520 to Lion Chambers", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/footnotes_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.86560859999999", "map_lng": "-4.264183799999955", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/03-Footnotes-from-520-to-Lion-Chambers.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/abriskwalk_landscape2.jpg", "excerpt": "The changing fortunes of Sauchiehall Street A street of change…Johnny Rodgers points out changing landmarks including famous Charles Rennie Macintosh buildings such as Glasgow School of Art and the Willow Tearooms, both currently under restoration. […]"},{ "id": "5509", "title": "Lion Chambers", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lionchambers_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.86352849999999", "map_lng": "-4.257641299999932", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/04-Lion-Chambers.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/lionchambers_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "A concrete castle Full of intrigue – and potential too. The building was commissioned by William G. Black, lawyer and member of the Glasgow Arts Club, with the lower floors intended as lawyers' offices and […]"},{ "id": "5514", "title": "Hatrack", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hatrack_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.8619436", "map_lng": "-4.258447599999954", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/05-Hatrack.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/hatrack_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "Slender elegance Second cousin to the Lion Chambers…an almost Gaudi-like structure. Officially it is named St Vincent Chambers, but everyone knows it as the Hatrack. This tall thin Art Nouveau building is also the work […]"},{ "id": "5520", "title": "Footnotes: Hatrack to Typographical House", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/footnotes_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.8599489", "map_lng": "-4.256738899999959", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/06-Footnotes-Hatrack-to-Typographical-House.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/abriskwalk_landscape2.jpg", "excerpt": "From neo-Modernism to Brutalism via neo-Classicism Reading between the gaps, Johnny Rodger traces evidence of boom and bust in the city landscape. Download the full A Brisk Walk: Buildings at Risk for an architecture tour with a […]"},{ "id": "5523", "title": "Typographical House", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/typographical_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.85607340000001", "map_lng": "-4.255480199999965", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/07-Typographical-House.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/typographical_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "Graphic detail Empty windows overlook the changing waterfront. Under threat of demolition since 2011, Johnny Rodger describes a fine example of 1960s brutalism which deserves celebration. No name on the front but this was SOGAT […]"},{ "id": "5528", "title": "Footnotes: Clyde Street to Peacocks Tearoom", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/footnotes_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "55.85493999999999", "map_lng": "-4.251919799999996", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/08-Footnotes-Clyde-Street-to-Peacocks-Tearoom.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/abriskwalk_landscape2.jpg", "excerpt": "What is a building at risk? Our walk continues passing the Clutha Bar, rescued and restored after a tragic accident. So, just what is a building at risk? Shona Simpson, Built Heritage Officer of Glasgow […]"},{ "id": "5531", "title": "Peacock's Tearoom", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/peacocks_features.jpg", "map_lat": "0", "map_lng": "0", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/09-Peacocks-Tearoom.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/peacocks_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "Art Deco undone A neon light once adorned the front of Peacock's Tea Room in the Trongate. Proud as Peacock's… The crumbling art deco remnant on Glasgow's at risk register was one of several tearooms […]"},{ "id": "5537", "title": "Footnotes: from Trongate to Clay Pipe Factory", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/footnotes_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "0", "map_lng": "0", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/10-Footnotes-from-Trongate-to-Clay-Pipe-Factory.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/abriskwalk_landscape2.jpg", "excerpt": "Filling the gaps To fill or not to fill?  Johnny Rodgers looks at the gaps on the way to an area of regeneration in the East End.  Is dereliction a necessary phase of evolution? Download […]"},{ "id": "5539", "title": "Clay Pipe Factory", "featuredImage": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/claypipefactory_feature.jpg", "map_lat": "0", "map_lng": "0", "audioFileUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/stops/brisk_walk/11-Clay-Pipe-Factory.mp3", "landscapeImageUrl": "http://www.walkingheads.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/claypipefactory_landscape.jpg", "excerpt": "A happy new beginning Not so much a happy ending as a happy new beginning. There's new life for the old clay pipe factory, now reborn as artists' workshop and exhibition space. It is a […]"}]}]}