This Mackintosh Building website has been developed as part of The Glasgow School of Art’s wider redevelopment of its central website, providing an interim home for information, documents, images and details of our governance structure for the Building, links to our community engagement within Garnethill and some archive papers and resources relating to both the 2014 and 2018 fires.
Timeline
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The GSA publishes its Strategic Outline Business Case Addendum - a detailed analysis of the options for the future of the Mackintosh Building, including updated costs.
2026
Economic Case within SOBCA identifies Mackintosh Building as Anchor for Heritage-led Economic and Urban Regeneration – Glasgow’s Creative and Cultural Production and Innovation District.
2026
New Conservation Management Plan for the Mackintosh Building produced by Purcell.
2026
Tender issued for the Addendum to the 2021 Strategic Outline Business Case (SOBC) to identify an appropriate route for the faithful reinstatement of the Building. Reiach and Hall, with Purcell, appointed in July 2025; The GSA initiates arbitration with insurers for 2018 fire.
2024
Reinstatement of Reid Building façade damaged in 2018 fire. The Reid Building, designed by American architect Stephen Holl, is in complementary contrast to Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s 1909 School of Art – forging a symbiotic relation in which each structure heightens the integral qualities of the other.
2024
Museums Galleries Scotland confirm GSA’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh Collection of Glasgow School of Art as a Recognised Collection of National Significance
2024
Installation of a protective white membrane ‘wrap’, temporary roof structure and reduction in the extensive scaffolding allowing the building to dry out and the next stages of internal works
2023
Phase 2 completed with the dismantling of the Library Tower and work commences on the next phases of the Mackintosh Building rebuild– including a temporary roof and ‘wrapping’ the Building.
2023
Clearance of over 5500 tonnes of debris marks the end of Phase 1 of the project.
2022
The GSA publishes the Strategic Outline Business Case committing to the ‘Faithful Reinstatement’ of the building.
2021
GSA appoints Hub West /Avison Young led team to undertake Strategic Outline Business Case to help determine the future of the Mackintosh Building.
2020
Phase 1 work commences, focusing on the mammoth task of stabilisation and debris clearance.
2018
During the last phases of the Restoration Project, the Mackintosh Building suffers a second, more significant fire.
2018
Mackintosh Restoration Project commences restoring the West Wing and refurbishing the East Wing.
2015
The West Wing damaged by fire during Degree Show installation. Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) receives the Newbery Medal, the School’s highest honour at graduation.
2014
Steven Holl Architects and JM Architects design the new Reid Building in considered contrast to its neighbour.
2010
Completion of the West Wing, heralding the birth of Modernism.
1907
East Wing of new Glasgow School of Art building is completed.
1897
GSA purchases new site on Renfrew Street, Garnethill. In 1997, Honeyman & Keppie Architects appointed on the basis of a design submitted by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for new School of Art.
1896
The Glasgow Government School of Design becomes The Glasgow School of Art (GSA).
1853
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- 2026 : Conservation Management Plan
- 2026 : Appendix A – Architectural and Technical, Reiach and Hall with Purcell
- 2021 : Strategic Outline Business Case
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- 2018 : Scottish Parliament Submission and GSA response
- 2018 : Fire Report
- 2014 : Archives and Collections Losses
- 2014 : Fire Report