Mack to begin new architect search as spat with insurers heads to arbitration

Architects Journal by Gino Spocchia – 10 May 2024 The Mackintosh building will remain under wraps for two years before restoration work begins.  Source: Alan McAteer for GSA The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is set to begin a new search for architects to restore its fire-ravaged Mackintosh building but has

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AGM 2024 – Hybrid Meeting

19th Annual General Meeting – 8 June 2024  Information on the AGM business has been sent out to all members.  If you cannot attend the AGM, the accounts and a full report will be posted on the Society website. We hope this year that you will be able to attend

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‘Our once-beautiful Glasgow looks like a bomb hit it’

Marc Horne Saturday April 06 2024, 6.00pm, The Sunday Times The Lion Chambers on Hope Street Stuart Robertson, of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, says Scotland’s biggest city, a Victorian treasure, is falling into ‘third world’ decline, and the council is not helping. In 1967, Sir John Betjeman, the English

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Heritage buildings in Glasgow have reached a ‘critical’ stage

Exclusive by Caroline Wilson Senior Reporter at The Herald – 27/3/24 The Lady Artists’ Club in Blythswood Square. (Image: Stuart Robertson) The condition of Glasgow’s heritage buildings is now “critical” and fire service cuts could lead to the loss of more treasures, the head of a conservation charity has warned.

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Sauchiehall Street food hall to embrace the Mack

Glasgow does not need another Student Accommodation and this design in front of the Mack does nothing to improve the previous attempt that was eventually refused. Hopefully this will be rejected as well. Vita Group has revealed its early concept proposals for a combined food hall and student accommodation at

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Mackintosh at the Willow is now part of the National Trust for Scotland

Celia Sinclair Thornquist at the Mackintosh at the Willow with Philip Long (Image: Gibson Digital / National Trust for Scotland 2023) Following negotiations and the support of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, it is confirmed that The Willow Tea Rooms Trust will transfer Mackintosh at the Willow to the National

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