Scotland

Glasgow

Pictures © Jacques Lasserre

Charles Rennie
Mackintosh:
Glasgow School
of Art (1898)
(Image: Wikimedia)

Ruchill Church
Hall
(1898)

Willow Tea Room
217 Sauchiehall St.
(1903)

Queen's Cross
Church
870 Garscube Road
(1897)

House for an Art Lover (1901/1989)

The house was originally designed for an ideas competition set by the German design magazine Zeitschrift für Innendekoration for a "Haus für einen Kunstliebhaber" (House for an Art Lover). Despite disqualification due to late entry, the portfolio was awarded a prize for "pronounced personal quality, novel and austere form and the uniform configuration of interior and exterior".
The building is situated in Bellahouston Park. Construction began in 1989 and the house was finally opened to the public in 1996.

Martyrs' Public School

Parson Street (1897)

Martyrs' School is one of the earliest buildings by Mackintosh. The exterior is distinguished by the balance of the walls and windows, and the detailing of the red sandstone. The interior has fine tile work and spectacular roof trusses.
The School Board of Glasgow opened Martyrs' in 1897 as a primary school for the children of the surrounding area of Townhead. Rows of traditional four-storey tenements originally surrounded the building. Mackintosh was born in one of them.