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Tag Archives: Glasgow School of Art
Update on Mack restoration
With bigwigs and celebs jetting away at last from Scotland’s global climate summit, what else is afoot in the city of Glasgow? The famous 1909 Glasgow School of Art by Charles Rennie Mackintosh has not been rebuilt after its near … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Alan Dunlop, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Restoration, Scotland, Steven Holl
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Notre Dame redivivus?
Notre Dame lives! Monday was pure concentrated stress and sadness – the horror! – watching the spire teeter and fall, then seeing the fire creep along what remained of the roof toward the betowered west façade, and then, as flames … Continue reading
Insurance for Mack rebuild?
Some spectacular good news about the Glasgow School of Art, whose main building, designed by Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh, burned down a month ago. It seems the school’s insurance may be enough to pay for reconstruction after its recent … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Fire, Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Restoration, Tom Inns
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Bulldoze or rebuild Mack?
A horrific second fire in four years at Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art, completed in 1909, has elicited predictably cockamamie calls to demolish rather than to again rebuild the Scotsman’s masterpiece. Its restoration had been 80 percent complete … Continue reading
Devastation in Glasgow
Shattering news from Scotland, where architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s masterpiece, the Glasgow School of Art, completed in 1909, has just suffered a catastrophic fire, just as its restoration after a catastrophic fire in 2014 was nearing its final stages. No! … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Oliver Wainwright, Rennie Macintosh, Scotland, UK Guardian
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Macintosh library reveals all
Today is Charles Rennie Macintosh’s birthday, the 148th anniversary of his birth in 1868. Hats off to Joel Pidel and Paul Ranogajec for memorializing the event with the picture above. Paul also linked to an article in Archinect, “The architects … Continue reading
Latest on Macintosh rebuild
An experienced Glasgow firm, Page/Park, has been chosen in a competition to restore and renovate the burned masterpiece of Scotland’s great architect Charles Rennie Macintosh – the Glasgow School of Art and its Macintosh Library. The Guardian’s story runs under … Continue reading
An idea for visual pushback
Architecture, along with almost every other major human endeavor outside of food and music, is largely visual in its effect. Traditional architects rely on the appeal of their work to the eye as they try to push back against the … Continue reading
Column: Scotland back to its roots or nae
Scottish voters decide today whether Scotland will be independent or continue its 307-year relationship with Great Britain. Whatever it decides – and the last polls were too close to call – its cultural hegemony over its own appearance will remain … Continue reading
Glasgow fire update
The good news is that in addition to money flowing in to repair the Glasgow School of Art that nearly burned down this spring, school officials seem firmly inclined to restore to the original state both the school building, most … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Preservation
Tagged Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow School of Art, Scotland
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