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Glasgow's big 'Mac' in architectural feeding frenzy

by Jay Merrick on May 27, 2009

Glasgow's big 'Mac' in architectural feeding frenzy


More than 9,000 architectural practices and design obsessives have expressed interest in creating a new students' building opposite the iconic Glasgow School of Art, a Grade I-listed building designed in 1898 by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The wave of enquiries – among them big-hitters like Lord Foster and Zaha Hadid – should generate about 1,000 bona fide competition entries, 600 more than for the London Millennium Bridge in 1997. The value of the "Mac" (as the school is known) project is a relatively modest £50m. The response was described as "extraordinary and unprecedented" by competition organiser, Malcolm Reading.

In a century awash with banal new buildings and unimaginative clients, it is the sheer challenge – and the risk of blatant architectural failure – that appear to have made the Mac project so irresistible.

Paul Finch, the ascerbic panjandrum of the World Architecture Festival, described the competition as an...Read More >>



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