Key Rennie Mackintosh buildings:

glasgow herald
glasgow school of art
hill house
house for an art lover
willow tea rooms
hunterian gallery

Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Architect, was born in 1868 in Parson St, Townhead, Glasgow. His Martyrs Public School can still be found here.

CR Mackintosh died London, England 1928.

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Works in full:-

glasgow herald building
Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1893-95
For Mackintosh's history / background scroll down to lower part of page.
refurbished as The Lighthouse, Scotland's Centre for Architecture, Design and the City, 56 Mitchell St, Glasgow
Page & Park Architects in 1998 - 1999


Former Glasgow Herald, Glasgow - image from page/park architects

page & park architects
Typical for a Scottish newspaper operation (eg former headquarters of The Scotsman, North Bridge, Edinburgh) the lower floors were used as production and the upper floors for the editorial and commercial offices.


The Lighthouse, Glasgow - image from page/park architects

A building with great heritage: the former Glasgow Herald building was remodelled by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in 1893-95, his first major public building.

Like so many Scottish contemporary buildings, the newspaper columns have focused on the problems - generally costs - rather than the architecture. Page & Park Architects have a fine pedigree and were a logical choice for such a project.

The Lighthouse, although in central Glasgow, is in a difficult site, tucked away off the main drag. This means signage and marketing have to be well-organised, and the logo designed by Mariscal - who did the Barcelona Olympics logo (the dog holding a torch) - makes a strong impact.

With a lack of easily-visible street frontage the Lighthouse image that immediately springs to my mind (even though I'm an architect) is the 'three-legged' logo of, well, a lighthouse. Nevertheless, the interior spaces are stacked vertically up a brightly-coloured atrium, calmed by areas of fair-faced concrete and linked by an elevator. The exhibitions are designed to be accessible and don't focus purely on architecture; there is an observation deck at the top from which to view the city.
Interior graphics and displays were designed by Javier Mariscal and designers lwd. The £12m Lighthouse opened in Summer 1999, with two main exhibition galleries, conference room, ground-floor cafe, smaller display areas, education and IT suites, Rennie Mackintosh interpretation area and a Design-into-Business Centre.

The Lighthouse forms a permanent addition to Scotland's cultural heritage and a concrete reminder of Glasgow 1999: UK City of Architecture and Design. It's stated remit is to ensure that the widest possible audience will be able to use the building to explore architecture and design in all their many meanings, presented in engaging informative and challenging ways.


glasgow school of art
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Glasgow School of Art, 167 Renfrew Street, off Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow


Rennie Mackintosh: Glasgow School of Art north frontage, Glasgow © Adrian Welch

Glasgow School of Art is probably the most well know Charles Rennie Mackintosh building and certainly his most well respected.


Glasgow School of Art - west facade © Adrian Welch

Powerful sandstone block with dark, woody interior - save the bright chicken run high up on the south facade - perched on a steep incline. This is a building of Global importance, recorded in most Histories of 20th Century Architecture.


Glasgow School of Art - southwest view © Adrian Welch

Powerful influence for Art Nouveau and later for Modernism.

hill house
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Hill House, Upper Colquhoun Street, Helensburgh, north-west of Glasgow
The Hill House was designed for publisher Walter Blackie. After the Glasgow Art School, The Hill House is one of Rennie Mackintosh's best known works. The facades are typically strong with the few apertures articulated with characteristic grids, and subtle non-orthogonal elements such as the chimney. Mackintosh's style is often seen as not only related to fin-de-siecle Art Nouveau but to the burgeoning Modern Architecture movement. This Mackintosh work typically works with the Scottish traditional architecture, often referred to as the Scots Baronial, the rustic architecture of towers and crow steps.
The Hill House is run by the National Trust for Scotland and is close to Loch Lomond.


house for an art lover
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: House for an Art Lover, Bellahouston Park, Glasgow


Building image from Rennie Mackintosh Tours

Charles Rennie Mackintosh building constructed to his original plans in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Designed in 1901 by Mackintosh.
The House for an Art Lover resulted from a competition design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. House for an Art Lover was built on the former site of Ibrox Hill House in 1989-96 with the assistance of Glasgow City Council. Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan were instrumental in creating Rennie Mackintosh's House.


willow tea rooms
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: The Willow Tea Rooms, 217 Sauchiehall St, Glasgow


Rennie Mackintosh Tearooms - photo © Adrian Welch

Glasgow Tea Rooms for Kate Cranston. There is a similar Rennie Mackintosh Tea Room at 97 Buchanan Street.


hunterian gallery
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: Hunterian Gallery, Kelvingrove, Glasgow


Building image from Rennie Mackintosh Tours

interior of a Mackintosh-designed house formerly at 78 Southpark Avenue, Glasgow, where he lived from 1906 - 1914.


Glasgow Projects by Charles Rennie Mackintosh:
balgrayhill rd, 140-142, 1890
blythswood sq, no.5 door only, 1908
daily record printing works, renfield lane, 1901
glasgow herald - 1893-95
glasgow school of art, 167 renfrew st - 1899 & 1910
hill house, helensburgh - 1902-1904
house for an art lover, bellahouston park - andy macmillan after mackintosh 1996
hunterian gallery -
martyrs' school, 52 parson st - honeyman & keppie (mackintosh), 1898
queens cross church, woodside - 1896-99
ruchill free church halls - 1899
scotland street school - 1906
willow tea rooms, the, 217 sauchiehall st - 1904

Glasgow Style Room, Art Gallery & Museum, Kelvingrove

Peripheral building / project:
lilybank house extension - 1890s
queen mary's college, 1895 with John Keppie

Rennie Mackintosh - Buildings Outside Glasgow:
78 Derngate, Northampton, England - 1919
refurbished 1998-2003 costing £2.5m
Rennie Mackintosh house : John McAslan + Partners

St Andrews Church, Roker, Sunderland, England
1905

Dougarie, Arran Island, Scotland



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