The Mackintosh Building of the Glasgow School of Art on Renfrew Street was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, with the introduction also crediting Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh. Work began in 1897, the first half was finished in 1899 and the second in 1909. The introduction dates the design phases to 1896 to 1909. A £10,000 Bellahouston Trust donation funded it, and the article names no client.
The article calls the style Modern Style, a British Art Nouveau. Restoration used longleaf pine and tulipwood. The Mackintosh library was destroyed in 2014, and the Mackintosh Gallery was the only public area. The article gives no dimensions.
A fire on May 23, 2014 began in the basement and was linked to a foam canister near a projector. A second, more severe fire on June 15, 2018 caused no casualties. A £25 million contract with Kier was terminated in 2018. It is under restoration and planned to reopen as a graduate school in 2030.
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