{"id":1177679,"date":"2026-08-30T18:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177679\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T18:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T18:46:33","slug":"glasgow-school-of-art-mackintosh-fires-talk-in-helensburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/1177679\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh fires talk in Helensburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Professor Gordon Gibb is an award-winning chartered architect, practice owner, expert witness, adjudicator and academic.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He studied and taught part-time at Glasgow School of Art (GSA) over nearly 50 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In the monthly u3a talk at Helensburgh Parish Church halls, he will talk about investigating the causes of the two fires and the reasons for their spread.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Mackintosh building at the GSA was badly damaged in May 2014 and then more severely in June 2018. It may never be rebuilt to its former glory, the art school has admitted.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was never able to find a cause for the second fire.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  In July, the cost to reinstate the Mack was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/26299449.new-report-puts-cost-rebuilding-mackintosh-265m\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">revealed as a potential \u00a3265 million<\/a>. The Scottish Government was warned it risked a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/news\/26417446.scottish-government-warned-mackintosh-building-rebuild\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">&#8220;profound failure of national priority and leadership&#8221;<\/a> over the state of the building.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Helensburgh remains a destination for those celebrating the architecture of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.helensburghadvertiser.co.uk\/topics\/charles-rennie-mackintosh\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Charles Rennie Mackintosh<\/a>, particularly with the loss of his art school masterpiece.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The u3a talk, at 2pm on September 7, is open to all members.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Professor Gordon Gibb is an award-winning chartered architect, practice owner, expert witness, adjudicator and academic. He studied and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1177680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":["post-1177679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-glasgow","tag-britain","tag-glasgow","tag-great-britain","tag-scotland","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117185949508045340","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1177680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}