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)
Museum of the Moon
An extraordinary art installation, named Museum of the Moon, is making its debut in Scotland this summer. The installation is being brought to Scotland by UZ Arts who are working in partnership with Synergy Concerts, Take Me Somewhere festival, The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society and Kelburn Castle Estate. Museum of
Gavin Stamp (1948-2017)
It is with great sadness that news of Gavin Stamp’s death in late December has been received by the Society. Gavin’s family have kindly passed on the details of the funeral arrangements and asked that we spread them far and wide. These are included below. Gavin was of course the
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
Obituary – Gavin Stamp, architectural activist, professor at Glasgow School of Art and “Piloti” of Private Eye
Architectural historian and activist and professor at Glasgow’s Mackintosh School of Architecture Born: March 15, 1948; Died: December 30, 2017 GAVIN Stamp, who has died of prostate cancer aged 69, was a historian who specialised in architecture and its preservation, a photographer, a Private Eye columnist (nom-de-plume Piloti), a Tory-turned
Student flats plan next to Mackintosh Building rejected by Scottish Government
Wonderful news before Christmas, the Scottish Government has rejected an appeal for plans to build a student housing development adjoining Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s world-renowned Glasgow School of Art (GSA) building. Plans by developers Urban Pulse would have seen the former Jumpin’ Jaks nightclub on Sauchiehall Street demolished to make way
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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