Me, as a plant pot by a lovely Chinese man called Michael… 🌸🌼🌸 #glasgow #scotland #uk #scottish #plant #pot #cartoon #beard #scruff #beardsofinstagram #flowers #portrait #at #least #I #look #thin! (at Pidgin Perfect )
marc cairns
Marc Cairns is an architectural designer, gallerist and project director based in Glasgow, Scotland.
Co-founder and director of Pidgin Perfect, a multi-award winning creative studio established in 2011 which brings together people, clients and place to help build better communities for everyone. Pidgin Perfect uses a unique multi-skilled approach combining research, participation and design (RPD) around the built environment, placing the community at the heart of their projects.
Pidgin Perfect proudly represented Scotland at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the project ‘Critical Dialogues’, the project also received the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy Medal for Architecture.
In spring 2012 Marc began his role as a director of MANY, an arts organisation and studio provider located in the Merchant City of Glasgow. In this role, Marc also supports the development and programming of The Telfer Gallery, an artist led contemporary art gallery hosted by MANY Studios.
This is a diaristic blog by Marc which documents his working and personal life.
Follow Marc on Twitter and Instagram; @marcgcairns
Before the beard in the Brooklyn Botanics… oh for it to be 2010 again. Photography by @kmazing84! #newyork #nyc #brooklyn #bk #usa #guy #botanics #tree #photography #portrait #pigeon #fresh #faced #young (at Brooklyn Botanical Gardens)
Impromptu portrait by @maryfreeman down at the River Clyde… #glasgow #scotland #uk #scots #guy #beard #scruff #winter #basketball #portrait #peacoat #bridge #night #red #river #scarf #face #white #skin #gpoy #wilson (at Glasgow Bridge )
Boys in blue at Brown Sugar for Monday lunch… 💙 #glasgow #scotland #uk #lunch #staycation #blue #background #guy #beard #scruff #cute #portrait (at Brown Sugar)
Before the beard! May 2010 at @brunhotel with @garconjon and @colincomfort, today’s #ThrowbackThursday… #glasgow #scotland #uk #portrait #fashion #jumper #geometry #bowtie #check #tartan #guy #boy #dude #gpoy #eyes #black #white (at Get A Room - The Brunswick Hotel )
A slightly chubbier me with my Montgomery Cliff haircut in Manhattan in the fall of 2010. Photograph taken by @kistvaen during a day of exploring and adventure. I’m also wearing the first ever @pidginperfect badge we made when we set up the studio! #ThrowbackThursday #nyc #manhattan #fall #autumn #winter #portrait #guy #adventure #tweed #park #bridge #light #fashion (at Central Park )
I forgot to do my #ThrowbackThursday on Thursday so here it is on #Saturday! :) A night at The Vic, my once favourite place in Glasgow which was demolished in 2011. Photograph by @garconjon or @ds4dstern, I can’t remember which… #glasgow #scotland #uk #portrait #photography #memories #guy #scruff #stubble #pink #boy #nightclub #happy (Taken with Instagram at The Vic)
My Ironbbratz tenant photo from around Feb/March 2011… 18 months on I’m Director of the organisation and I’ve got a beard. #LifeChanges ;) #glasgow #scotland #marc #whatsmyname #throwback #red #polaroid #photograph #portrait #gpoy (Taken with Instagram at Ironbbratz)
Why does my old architecture school has this massive image of me lecturing in the foyer? #confused #glasgow #architecture #scotland #portrait #poster #sign #why (Taken with Instagram at University of Strathclyde)
Portrait by @martindbarker #glasgow #scotland #portrait #photography #architecture #design #designer #guy #boy #beard #fashion #art #light #nofilter #eyes #hair (Taken with Instagram at Pidgin Perfect )
