 Their dramatic shift in style did not always meet with favour; designs for the competitions to build the Central Thread Agency in Glasgow and the North British Hotel in Edinburgh were rejected.Their first success in the new style was the Glasgow Athenaeum Theatre of 1891–1893, a tall American-style elevator building in a Neo-baroque style similar to that of John Belcher or Arthur Beresford Pite.JJ Burnet took a study tour of Italy in 1895 to further his understanding of Baroque architecture.