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Latitude: 55.8596 / 55°51'34"N
Longitude: -4.2555 / 4°15'19"W
OS Eastings: 258924
OS Northings: 665239
OS Grid: NS589652
Mapcode National: GBR 0LM.F7
Mapcode Global: WH3P2.LZR9
Plus Code: 9C7QVP5V+VQ
Entry Name: Glasgow Herald Building, 60-76 (Even) Mitchell Street, Glasgow
Listing Name: 60-76 (Even Nos) Mitchell Street, Former Glasgow Herald Building
Listing Date: 15 December 1970
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 376499
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB33087
Building Class: Cultural
Also known as: 60 - 76 (even) Mitchell Street, Glasgow Herald Building
ID on this website: 200376499
Location: Glasgow
County: Glasgow
Town: Glasgow
Electoral Ward: Anderston/City/Yorkhill
Traditional County: Lanarkshire
Tagged with: Art Nouveau Building Art museum Art Nouveau architecture
After lying vacant for many years in the 1990s, the building was transformed into "The Lighthouse" - Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City. A modern extension by Page & Park was added to the rear and the 1890s fabric was largely retained and repaired (Mackintosh Architecture). . The refurbished building contains a permanent Mackintosh Interpretation Centre and was opened to the public in July 1999.
Charles Rennie Mackintosh, who was a young assistant in the practice of John Honeyman and Keppie during this period of the early 1890s, claimed responsibility for the surviving Glasgow Herald building on Mitchell Street. Elements of the design show Mackintosh's characteristic indivuality and there are many surviving drawings for the project that bear his handwriting. The extent of his involvement remains unclear however, as on a project of this scale and importance, John Keppie, or possibly John Honeyman, would likley have had substantial input (Mackintosh Architecture).
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) was born in Glasgow and is regarded internationally as one of the leading architects and designers of the 20th century. He became known as a pioneer of Modernism, although his architecture took much inspiration from Scottish Baronial, and Scottish and English vernacular forms and their reinterpretation. The synthesis of modern and traditional forms led to a distinctive form of Scottish arts and crafts design, known as 'The Glasgow Style'. This was developed in collaboration with contemporaries Herbert McNair, and the sisters Francis and Margaret Macdonald (who would become his wife in 1900), who were known as 'The Four'. The Glasgow Style is now synonymous with Mackintosh and the City of Glasgow.
Mackintosh's work is wide-ranging and includes public, educational and religious buildings to private houses, interior decorative schemes and sculptures. He is associated with over 150 design projects, ranging from being the principal designer, to projects he was involved with as part of the firm of John Honeyman & Keppie (Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh from 1901). The most important work during this partnership was the Glasgow School of Art (LB33105), which was built in two phases from 1897 and culminated in the outstanding library of 1907. Other key works include the Willow Tea Rooms (LB33173) and Hill House (LB34761), which display the modern principles of the German concept of 'Gesamtkunstwerk', meaning the 'synthesis of the arts'. This is something that Mackintosh applied completely to all of his work, from the exterior to the internal decorative scheme and the furniture and fittings.
Mackintosh left Glasgow in 1914, setting up practice in London the following year. Later he and Margaret moved to France, where until his death, his artistic output largely turned to textile design and watercolours.
Listed building record revised in 2019.
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