Charles Fish

Bargo

Bargo opened in 1996 as a big and bustling bar in the Merchant City quarter of Glasgow. Inside, old aluminium portholes, overscaled timbers and crate-like banquettes reference the City’s industrial and mercantile past. In plan, the bar and restaurant spaces take the form of a new building slotted inside the stately shell of the former Cheese Market. This approach gives rise to complex, flexible spaces which ask to be explored, even puzzled over.