Closing date for landmark Charles Rennie Mackintosh building

A closing date has been set for the sale of a landmark Scottish city building by world-renowned designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Glasgow City Council is selling the A-listed Martyrs’ School, completed in 1898, which was most recently used as offices. Graham + Sibbald said that “internally there is a number

Continue reading

Mackintosh Lighthouse building ‘to reopen as green tech hub’

Glasgow’s iconic Lighthouse building could re-open as a hub for firms specialising in climate technology after details of the firm in talks to take it over were revealed. Startup facilitators Sustainable Ventures Ltd are in talks with Glasgow City Council to take on the lease of the building and transform

Continue reading

Architects sought for new visitor centre at Mackintosh’s Hill House

The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) is set to launch a search for an architect to design a visitor centre at Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Hill House in Helensburgh. The Category A-listed masterpiece, designed with his wife Margaret Macdonald and originally built as a home for publisher Walter Blackie in 1902,

Continue reading