Saturday 20 October 2012

29th June: Glasgow–Rennie Mackintosh

Scotland Street Primary School was designed in 1903 and built during 1904 to 1906,  one of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's last commissions in Glasgow.

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063 The rear

062 The red sandstone facade is broken up by squares of coloured glass and the stylised Tree of Life motif

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The caretaker’s house is also stylish

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The school closed in 1979.  It is now a museum.  Cilla Black visited it before it closed.

074 His School of Art is very much open

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No inside photos….

but this is the library

Exhibition space

Top floor corridor

Committee room

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