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Glasgow School of Art redevelopment plans unveiled

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By The Drum Team, Editorial

September 17, 2010 | 2 min read

Plans for the first phase of redevelopment at the Glasgow School of Art campus have been released today.

Designed by New York based Steven Holl Architects in collaboration with local practice JM Architects and Arup Engineering, the new building will replace the Newbery Tower and Foulis building directly opposite Mackintosh’s acclaimed masterpiece on Renfrew Street.

The team were appointed last September following an international design competition with the aim of enhancing teaching, learning and research facilities available to GSA students and staff.

Publicly accessible exhibition and interpretation spaces will also be fashioned under the plans.

Holl has taken inspiration from the inventive manipulation of light evidenced in the 1909 Art School to arrange studios and workshops with natural side and top light, supplemented by “driven voids” which conduct natural light and ventilation direct to the buildings core.

Holl said, "The site opposite the Mackintosh Building calls for a unique, inspiring and stimulating twenty-first century architecture with a great sensitivity to light, detail, and material. The new Glasgow School of Art Building will provide contemplative space for individual creativity and thought, and spaces of collective interaction for students, staff and the Garnethill community."

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