The Lighthouse
Former newspaper offices crowned by a castle-like water tower, the first public work of Mackintosh.
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This guide to The Lighthouse in Glasgow, once the offices of the Glasgow Herald newspaper, follows a young Charles Rennie Mackintosh into his first public commission in the eighteen nineties. It turns on a tower built for a very practical fear, and on the gap between whose name went on the job and whose hand shaped it. Best heard in Mitchell Lane, looking up at the tower's crown.
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