This is such a sad story. I work in the museums sector and the GSA is one of the common case studies in the study of disaster response in a heritage environment. They did manage to save some of the collection and contents.
And the insurers are trying not to pay out, how typical. Fingers crossed they can sort it out and the place is restored as much as possible.
Look on the bright side, it hasn’t caught fire in six years!
What happened too it? We used too go too it almost on a weekly basis with school that was over 20 years ago
Keep the facade – build generic behind it. Removes the problem of fancy art school designs.
The school can relocate to the river front and get a much better custom made building. Lots of light too I’d imagine and the river front gets some development too.
Absurd that this has been going on for ten years.
To be honest, I’d rather have the O2 ABC back. While the loss of the Mackintosh building is sad, it’s frustrating that the loss of one of Glasgow’s best live music venues (in a building 20 years older than the Mackintosh) is constantly downplayed. It feels rather unfair that all the focus is on returning the Mackintosh to its original functional purpose (whatever that may look like), while the other innocent building that the GSA destroyed through their negligence has been left to the mercy of property developers. Why aren’t music fans being promised the return of an equivalent venue?
I think we’re due another fire of it soon
I think they bought the stow college building which looks huge. I know its a popular art school but I now wonder if maybe they have too many buildings and whether someone is thinking about getting rid of the mackintosh building
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This is such a sad story. I work in the museums sector and the GSA is one of the common case studies in the study of disaster response in a heritage environment. They did manage to save some of the collection and contents.
And the insurers are trying not to pay out, how typical. Fingers crossed they can sort it out and the place is restored as much as possible.
Look on the bright side, it hasn’t caught fire in six years!
What happened too it? We used too go too it almost on a weekly basis with school that was over 20 years ago
Keep the facade – build generic behind it. Removes the problem of fancy art school designs.
The school can relocate to the river front and get a much better custom made building. Lots of light too I’d imagine and the river front gets some development too.
Absurd that this has been going on for ten years.
To be honest, I’d rather have the O2 ABC back. While the loss of the Mackintosh building is sad, it’s frustrating that the loss of one of Glasgow’s best live music venues (in a building 20 years older than the Mackintosh) is constantly downplayed. It feels rather unfair that all the focus is on returning the Mackintosh to its original functional purpose (whatever that may look like), while the other innocent building that the GSA destroyed through their negligence has been left to the mercy of property developers. Why aren’t music fans being promised the return of an equivalent venue?
I think we’re due another fire of it soon
I think they bought the stow college building which looks huge. I know its a popular art school but I now wonder if maybe they have too many buildings and whether someone is thinking about getting rid of the mackintosh building