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House for an Art Lover, Glasgow, Architect, Mackintosh, Architecture, Photo
House for an Art Lover Glasgow : Information
Rennie Mackintosh Building : Reconstruction, Scotland
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
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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 citys
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 Glasgows 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
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