The Glasgow School of Art
Art nouveau art school by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, gutted by fire and awaiting faithful rebuilding.
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This guide to the Glasgow School of Art starts with the words its board chair Muriel Gray spoke to the cameras in May 2014, outside Charles Rennie Mackintosh's art nouveau masterpiece. It reaches back to the 1896 competition won by a young assistant at Honeyman and Keppie, to a building raised in two halves for lack of money, and to the students installing their degree show on the day the basement caught fire. Best heard on Renfrew Street, looking up at the tall north-facing studio windows.
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