Glasgow School of Art must be rebuilt – with no corners cut
John McAslan The Guardian Wed 11 Jul 2018 I fear Mackintosh’s fire-ravaged masterpiece is in danger of being lost to future generations if decisions are taken meanly or hastily These are worrying times for all who care about saving the finest works by one of the world’s greatest architects, Charles
Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh Building (1909–2018)
Artforum International June 21, 2018 • Ray McKenzie THE NEWS THAT ONE OF SCOTLAND’S MOST TREASURED WORKS of historic architecture—Glasgow School of Art’s celebrated “Mackintosh Building”—had been gutted by fire on the evening of Friday, June 15, prompted an outpouring of collective grief on a scale rarely encountered outside the
BBC News on the fire that has devastated the Mackintosh Building at the Glasgow School of Art
Glasgow fire: Art school’s Mackintosh building extensively damaged 16 June 2018 Glasgow’s world-renowned School of Art has been gutted by another huge blaze, four years after part of the building was destroyed by fire. Flames ripped through the celebrated Mackintosh building after it caught fire at about 23:20 on Friday. The
Sale of key designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh will help restoration effort
A key designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh that has not been seen in public since the 19th century has sold at auction for £40,000. The key was used during the opening ceremony of the Glasgow School of Art, one of the architect’s best known designs, in 1899. A donation from
Mackintosh 150: a sneak peek at a new Kelvingrove exhibition
We’re in her laboratory deep within the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre and she is demonstrating the technique used to painstakingly restore a piece not seen in public for decades. Propped up on crates is a section of wall, salvaged from Miss Cranston’s Ingram Street Tea Rooms shortly before the building
Mackintosh Building at GSA – Art Retrofit
Under Page/Park’s deep analysis Glasgow School of Art is on course for a full recovery from its trauma, melding Mackintosh’s original concepts with modern technology. The Mackintosh 3D model scanned by point cloud and augmented by Page/Park. Credit: Glasgow School of Art Much discussion on the nature of the rebuild
Charles Rennie Mackintosh | The Key to a Masterpiece
In the year of the 150th anniversary of Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s birth, Lyon & Turnbull are proud to present at auction on 11th April 2018 a truly unique piece of design history – the very key used to open Mackintosh’s masterpiece The Glasgow School of Art (now the Mackintosh Building)
The ‘hen run’ returns: iconic corridor in Glasgow School of Art is reconstructed after disastrous fire
Nearly four years after its destruction in the Glasgow School of Art fire, one of the building’s most distinctive features has been brought back to life. The glass-walled, timber-framed ‘hen run’, which connects two parts of the Mackintosh Building and provided generations of young artists with an area of stunning
Plans to build a transparent “shield” around Mackintosh’s The Hill House
Carmody Groarke has unveiled plans to erect a see-through hood over Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s The Hill House in Helensburgh, Scotland, to help protect it from the elements during conservation works. Mackintosh, a key figure in Britain’s Arts and Crafts movement, designed and built Hill House as a home for the
Rare Charles Rennie Mackintosh painting secured for nation
A rare watercolour by Charles Rennie Mackintosh has been acquired for the nation at auction. The Road through the Rocks was bought by the National Galleries of Scotland for £65,000. The Road through the Rocks dates from c. 1924-25, following his move to the South of France on the advice of
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