{"id":686627,"date":"2026-01-10T11:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686627\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T11:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T11:28:10","slug":"glasgow-school-of-art-rebuild-integral-to-nations-self-belief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/686627\/","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow School of Art rebuild ‘integral to nation’s self belief’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n In this time he has helped raised millions to safeguard Queen’s Cross Church, the only one completed by the Glasgow architect.\n<\/p>\n

\n Queen’s Cross Church (Image: Colin Mearns)\n<\/p>\n

\n Under his stewardship the city’s first Glasgow Mackintosh Festival was staged in 2006, which won two Scottish Thistle awards and boosted local economy by \u00a35.6 million.\n<\/p>\n

\n The rebuild of GSA’s Mackintosh building has been delayed by ongoing arbitration with its insurers over the extensive damage from fires in 2014 and 2018.\n<\/p>\n

\n “I’m passionate about the future of the Mackintosh Building,” said the director.\n<\/p>\n

\n “We have an architect and a building that is integral to the nation\u2019s self-belief and firmly embedded on the international stage.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Rebuilding this masterpiece is a must and will showcase Scotland and Mackintosh\u2019s influential role in the development of contemporary design culture\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n Robertson’s successor will be Matthew Williams, who was previously commercial development manager at Aberdeen<\/a> City Council and responsible for all income generation at Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums.\n<\/p>\n

\n He was also responsible for leading on the annual events programme, most recently the Tall Ships Races in Aberdeen this summer, for which the Press and Journal newspaper named him among the North East\u2019s \u201cPeople of 2025\u201d.\n<\/p>\n

\n He said: “Together, and with the support of the Society’s members, we will ensure that Mackintosh\u2019s creative legacy remains firmly at the heart of Glasgow\u2019s cultural life and the delivery of the national tourism strategy, Scotland Outlook 2030.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this time he has helped raised millions to safeguard Queen’s Cross Church, the only one completed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-686627","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115870571694739150","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686627","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=686627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}