Glasgow School of Art on fire again (June 2018)
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Terribly sad to see this. I can't believe it's arson. My guess is it would be something to do with the contractors who were probably working in there during the day.
What is difficult to understand that given the huge restoration it was undergoing why it wasn't more fire resistant than it turned out to be?
Given how close the restoration was nearing to completion, I hope they hadn't started to move any collections back in there.
At least no one appears to have been hurt.
What is difficult to understand that given the huge restoration it was undergoing why it wasn't more fire resistant than it turned out to be?
Given how close the restoration was nearing to completion, I hope they hadn't started to move any collections back in there.
At least no one appears to have been hurt.
farmerbarleymow
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That's really sad news, and it looks like it's done much more damage this time. 
wayward bob
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oh fucking hell
Sunset Tree
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Surely it’s an insurance job?...one fire is misfortune....knock it down and build a shopping centre
Unbelievable. I suspect it won’t recover from this. I’m not sure they deserve to
Buildings seem to go on fire in central Glasgow all the time, there's a bit of a running joke about council corruption and student flats.
Doubt it's the case this time as this building is so enormously valuable.
equationgirl
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The smell of burning is in my flat, and I'm about three miles from the building
Aerial photos show the building to be little more than a shell. Two nearby buildings were also damaged by fire, a nightclub and the O2 gig venue. But no injuries, which for that time in that area is a miracle.
Aerial photos show the building to be little more than a shell. Two nearby buildings were also damaged by fire, a nightclub and the O2 gig venue. But no injuries, which for that time in that area is a miracle.
danny la rouge
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Liked for this bit.
kebabking
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The smell of burning is in my flat, and I'm about three miles from the building
Aerial photos show the building to be little more than a shell. Two nearby buildings were also damaged by fire, a nightclub and the O2 gig venue. But no injuries, which for that time in that area is a miracle.
You could see it from Dowanhill apparently, kebabette#1 is very upset - she'd set her heart on GSA...
equationgirl
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The sky was very orange, I'm a little further out than Dowanhill. She will still be able to go just not in that building. Heartbreaking.
Sunset Tree
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That's a shame. She'll still be able to study there though, just a different building. They've been using the old Stow College which is quite close by.
danny la rouge
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I used to work there. I like that building.
Sunset Tree
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First belle and sebastian album was recorded as part of a college project there, always think of that when I go by it.
danny la rouge
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Yes, I know. Although when I pass it I think "oh, that's my old staff room window".
kebabking
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Yeah, we told her that but I can see her point - part of the experience of studying there would have been the 'walking in the footsteps of giants' thing, just looking up from whatever book you're reading and seeing this fantastic building, taking a book from a bookshelf that generations of artists and students have taken book off before going on to change the world of art - I suppose it would be a bit like being accepted at Cambridge and finding yourself studying in some 1970's office block.
Pity, a real pity.
Sunset Tree
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Yeah, I total understand that. It is a massive shame. If she does still decide to go, Stow College is very close to the original campus so she'd get the other aspects of art school life, the whole trendy student west-end scene.
danny la rouge
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I know what you're saying. But she can console herself that I've walked the hallowed corridors of the Stow building and punched the vending machines. And refused to give students extensions because they were slackers I hadn't seen all term.
It also has a proud history of trade union education. Marches in the late 70s/early 80s used to start outside it for that very reasons.
danny la rouge
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Could it even have started in the ABC? They're very much closer than I'd realised.Walked nearby this morning, major damage done to the 02 ABC too which is behind it in the picture.
Sunset Tree
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At Glasgow University, you think you're going to walk in the footsteps of giants but invariably end up in 70s brutalist office blocks anyway.
Baronage-Phase
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Just seeing the photos online and it is devastating...
That building was an absolute treasure.
Will they be able to recover/rebuilt it?
Is it possible?
Very sad ...
That building was an absolute treasure.
Will they be able to recover/rebuilt it?
Is it possible?
Very sad ...
Sunset Tree
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Looks like it would have to be rebuilt from scratch almost.
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Fedayn
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Don't know, but i've been in both venues and never clocked their proximity strangely. The O2 is a great venue too.
Fedayn
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I doubt we will know for a while yet however the way the Fire Brigade spokesman was speaking he was talking about substantial damage and if, as has been said, that floors have collapsed and the building has in parts fallen in on itself it doesn't look hopeful.
equationgirl
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I get that, and going to that building was amazing. I did a tour about ten years ago and it was a very intense experience, walking through it. You were completely immersed in Mackintosh designs. So to not experience that as an art student would make it less of an experience.
But Mackintosh and many other artists walked all around the city, lived here, worked here. She can still experience that, and hopefully watch the art school rise like a phoenix from the ashes while she does so.
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equationgirl
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There are several archives in the city of his work - The Hunterian Art Gallery has a large archive as well as that held in the GSA archive and the CRM Society also has holdings. The National Archives has some too, plus there are a number of items in private hands.
Were the Macintosh archives held there? Are they gone too?
This is dreadful.
Forgot to include Kelvingrove museum holdings and the Glasgow City archives who will likely have items too.
equationgirl
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Fire brigade have said the interior is pretty much gone, from end to end of the building. Forensic team has yet to gain access to the inside of the structure. Best case scenario looks to be retention of the facade and complete rebuild behind.
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