The Burrell Collection
Woodland-edge art museum whose glass galleries and walls incorporate medieval stone doorways.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Burrell Collection in Glasgow is about the building rather than the treasures, and the three young Cambridge architecture tutors who won the job of designing it in the nineteen-seventies. It follows a competition, a postal strike, and the puzzle of how to make old castle stonework part of a modern museum. Start at the carved stone arch on the red sandstone wing, then cross to the courtyard's north wall.
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