The architects trying to restore Mackintosh's Library to its former glory

2016-04-23T11:43:00-04:00

The Charles Rennie Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) is an iconic structure and home of one of the greatest art schools in Europe. The building, voted the best British-designed building of the past 175 years in a nationwide poll conducted by The Sunday Times newspaper and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in 2009, is an iconic role model for what we perceive as the ideal art school: a space that exudes creativity through design, atmosphere and craft.

Screen/Print #22: Interview with Steven Holl for "MacMag39"

2014-08-14T14:32:00-04:00

The Glasgow School of Art’s architecture is a concise conversation between old and new. Recent events on campus, however, tipped the discussion in favor of the contemporary — a new building by Steven Holl Architects opened, and just a few weeks later, a fire ravaged the school’s historic Mackintosh Library, directly across the street. This conversation between the traditional and contemporary, and the eventual transition of the contemporary into the traditional, is built into MacMag, the architecture school’s annual publication.

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The architects trying to restore Mackintosh's Library to its former glory

Screen/Print #22: Interview with Steven Holl for "MacMag39"