House for an Art Lover Glasgow : Information

Location: Bellahouston Park, Glasgow, Scotland, UK Charles Rennie Mackintosh building constructed to his original plans in Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. Designed in 1901. The House for an Art Lover resulted from a competition design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. photos © Keith Hunter House for an Art Lover was built on the former site of Ibrox Hill House in 1989-96 with the assistance of Glasgow City Council. Graham Roxburgh and architect Professor Andy Macmillan were instrumental in creating Rennie Mackintosh's House. German magazine Zeitschrift fur Innendekoration held an international architecture competition for a Haus eines Kunstfreundes - `House for an Art Lover`. The brief demanded the house be of a 'thoroughly modern style`. Rennie Mackintosh's wife, Margaret Macdonald, assisted him on the house design. Mackintosh's entry (submitted under the pseudonym Der Vögel (`The bird`) was disqualified due to being incomplete on the deadline. On resubmission Rennie Mackintosh received an honorary award due to his house's originality. The Art Nouveau house designs were published in 1902 and exhibited at the International Exposition in Turin. photos © Keith Hunter House for an Art Lover is built on the foundations of Ibrox Hill House (demolished 1913) Situated in Bellahouston Park and adjacent to Victorian Walled Gardens, the House for an Art Lover is one of Glasgow's most popular attractions. The front door leads into the grand double-height Main Hall. The key rooms are accessed off this space:- the Oval Room, panelled Dining Room and the Music Room, originally designed as the Ladies Room. A few rooms of this outstanding building were constructed to the original designs but there was no attempt to construct the first-floor bedrooms or what must have been an enormous attic playroom. The rooms described below are open to the public while the upper two storeys are used by the Glasgow School of Art. There's also an Art Lovers' Café. Mackintosh's drawings submitted for the competition are on display. The House for an Art Lover is large and basically rectangular in plan. External walls are harled, painted white and the two main facades decorated with a few Art Nouveau relief sculptures of female figures [a la caryatids] sculpted in sandstone. Other symbols include the tree of life. House for an Art Lover architect : Rennie Mackintosh Keith Hunter Photography - contact details at Design Services Key Charles Rennie Mackintosh works in Scotland Glasgow School of Art Hill House Willow Tea Rooms Gareth Hoskins Architects - Architecture Competition Sep 2005 House for an Art Lover: Speculative Architecture Competition winners were announced earlier this week. The brief called for imaginative but realistic concepts for structures or installations to be set within the landscape at Bellahouston Park, Glasgow. This project is a major part of a broader initiative to establish the park as ART PARK Glasgow. 14 entries were received for sites around House for an Art Lover from which three proposals were chosen to develop with the intent of building one a year from 2006 – 2008, each for a budget of £100,000. The three winning entries were by Gareth Hoskins Architects, JM Architects and Gross Max. Gareth Hoskins Architects scheme “Grass Roots” looks at the current routes through the park whilst reflecting on the city’s industrial trade growth of bygone centuries. The installation takes the form of a line through the park, passing through the remains of Bellahouston House, which also acts as a fulcrum for the design. The line running north of the house manifests itself in randomly placed “Trade Stones” representing Glasgow’s urban development. The remains of the basement of the house will be landscaped with contours with miniature city blocks submerged and will provide a point for discussion, celebration and interaction. Lastly, the line running south of the house to the park edge harks back to a feudal past and is embodied in a broad strip of wild meadow grass, providing a place for reflection. Gareth Hoskins Architects - House for an Art Lover Architecture Competition: 150905 House for an Art Lover - Art Park Glasgow : Scottish Design Awards 2007 - Proposed Place Making Shortlist: ZM Architecture