Neil Oliver: I’m no Brad Pitt but The Hill House shows us all in a good light

Neil Oliver 10 March 2019, The Sunday Times The campaign to restore a Mackintosh masterpiece is inspiring We are a strange and mercurial lot in Scotland. I was in Helensburgh last week, at The Hill House designed by Glasgow architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh. High on a hill above the Firth

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Glasgow School of Art criticised over Mackintosh Building fire

Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has been criticised by MSPs in a report into the fire which devastated the Mackintosh Building last year. Image copyright GETTY IMAGES The fire gutted the famous Mackintosh Building in June 2018 Holyrood’s culture committee said the school did not give sufficient priority to safeguarding

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Glasgow School of Art accused of systemic failings over fire

‘The building has burned twice on their watch,’ says campaigner as Scottish parliament holds hearing The Guardian Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent Thu 20 Sep 2018 The board of the Glasgow School of Art is unfit to manage the future of the famous Mackintosh building, which was gutted by fire in

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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)

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