The Urban Mural Gable

Architecturally it's a gable wall, colloquially it's a gable end and mathematically it's width x depth. For me, it's the end-y bit of a building, tenement or commercial. There's one near my place of work which is gold-cladded, a striking enough end to a brownish dull building. The one in the pic actually belongs to the same institution, Strathclyde University, but it's so much more striking, artistic and well done.

It's a grey image on a gable wall, often so plain, but here taking the form of a mural, similar in a sense to a painting by the 1980s Glasgow Boys, contemporary figurative painting with a dramatic narrative. I understand it's of the university founders, and it's certainly eye-catching on a developing stretch of Glasgow's High Street. It's shades of grey, but the sheer size (must be ten-storey) creates a dramatic addition to a thriving urban landscape.