Glasgow school of Art on Fire
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Absolutely devastating seeing the pictures.
Many people say it's one of the finest buildings, not only in Britain, but the world:(
Many people say it's one of the finest buildings, not only in Britain, but the world:(
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The question is, will we make the same mistake post-fire as we often do in these cases of not rebuilding it back to how it was?
It will give them a chance to get rid of 100 years of alterations and restored to its original form - though with 21st century safety standards
The remaining original Mackintosh buildings are Scotland Street School & The Hill House. Brad Pitt is a Mackintosh architecture fan, he is known to have visited The Hill House twice, most recently when he filmed World War Z in Glasgow a few years ago.
South of the border, there's a superb Mackintosh house at 78 Derngate, Northampton - but that's splitting hairs. It's devastating news for all lovers of CRM's wonderful designs and let's hope the damage can be limited or restored. Not looking good, the Library has some fantastic stuff, and that looks to have been badly affected.
The building is beautiful - iconic and one that Glaswegians have always been rightly proud of. As a Londoner who lived in Glasgow for a time, to me it's always been one of those landmarks that makes the city special.
I hope they can restore it, but at the moment it looks bad.
In any event it must be devastating to those concerned.
Clear up and Rebuild. rebuild. rebuild.
I wonder whether they will be given a fixed grade?
Still not nice.
Probably unattended/or someone didn't manage to get a fire extinguisher in time, when a bulb went.
From what I've seen projector bulbs can get very hot*, which when it's near the sort of plastics and materials used to overhead projectors, or worse film stock could be nasty when shards of very hot glass hit them.
That's assuming it was a bulb going and not an electrical fault with it.
*I think with film projectors it was always a problem if the film got stuck or cooling failed as you're talking a very high brightness bulb usually very close to what is/was often a fairly flamable material.
The Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum is supposedly built the 'wrong way round'; the main entrance is at the back of the building; the front faces towards Kelvingrove park.
Thank you.
You would think that better fire-fighting measures would have been in place.
At least no one died.
I do live in London through.
It was designed by Charles Rennie MacIntosh.