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Tag Archives: Scotland
Rural life faces grim reaper
The shadow darkening over pastures and woodlands, farm villages and hamlets probably threatens the rural style of life more in Britain than in America, where only a remnant of family farms, dairy or crops, survives in New England and the … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Alan Dunlop, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Restoration, Scotland, Steven Holl
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“Conundrum of architecture”
Below is a long guest post written by Scottish architecture critic David Black, who lives in Edinburgh. Written in light of controversies in the United States over former President Trump’s effort to align the styles of federal architecture with American … Continue reading
Don’t trifle with this building
Opened in 1823 to a design by Thomas Hamilton, Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School has a stern and foreboding look. But surely a grin can be detected among its colonnades: It has recently dodged the bullet of redevelopment as an … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Glasgow, Glasgow School of Art, Oliver Wainwright, Rennie Macintosh, Scotland, UK Guardian
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Q. of Scots takes Edinburgh
Here is Margaret, Queen of Scots, entering Edinburgh in 1503, riding with new husband James of Scotland, as seen through the lens of historical novelist Philippa Gregory in her Three Sisters, Three Queens (2016): The day of our entry into … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Edinburgh, England, Henry James, Henry VIII, King James of Scotland, Philippa Gregory, Queen Margaret of Scotland, Scotland
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Bobby Burns’ Edinburgh
Aside from a quick nip past Scotland’s poor modernist parliament building, this video of Edinburgh focuses on the delights of the architecture of the Athens of the North. The narrator’s gentle brogue lifts the heart, even becomes a sort of … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Edinburgh, Poetry, Robert Burns, Scotland, Video
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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
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