Niall Murphy, director of Glasgow City Heritage Trust, told BBC Radio 4's PM programme, "there is definitely a perception that Glasgow has more than its fair share of fires. " The Charles Rennie Mackintosh-designed School of Art is the most famous casualty, having caught fire twice, in 2014 and 2018. B-listed tenement blocks at the Albert Cross in Pollokshields on the south side of the city caught fire in 2019 and 2020, while the India Buildings on Bridge Street on the south bank of the River Clyde had to be demolished in 2024 after general decay resulted in the roof collapsing. Another listed building on Sauchiehall Street in the city centre - which housed popular nightclub Victoria's - was destroyed in 2018, following a fire blamed on an electrical fault. In 2025 Glasgow City Council launched a compulsory purchase order (CPO) process to take over the building from the current owners, and in February property firm Ediston was approved to advance plans to bring the site back into use. " The blaze last Sunday started in a vape shop at 105 Union Street and since then a tangled web of ownership has emerged surrounding who had responsibility for the shop there.