Glasgow Herald Building (Glasgow, Scotland) : View looking up from Mitchell Street, showing the tower

Creator:

Honeyman, Keppie & Mackintosh, British architectural firm, 1904-1913
Mackintosh, Charles Rennie, 1868-1928

Published/Created:

Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
1893-1895 ; 1999 (alteration)

Date Depicted:

2007
1850 AD - 1899 AD

Materials:

Red sandstone

Notes:

Mackintosh’s earliest architectural work, the Glasgow Herald Building was produced in conjunction with the firm’s junior partner, John Keppie (1863-1945). Although the overall disposition of elements and details, such as the fenestration are familiar from Keppie’s repertory, Mackintosh seems to have been allowed to introduce many of his own ideas. The vegetable carving on the rainwater-heads, corbels and keystones, particularly of the higher storeys, is a typical Mackintosh innovation. The two six-storey elevations are unified by a higher polygonal tower scaffolded at the angles by continuous pilaster strips. The top of the tower, which contains a water storage tank, is corbelled outwards like a bursting bud, so adding to the feeling of growth. [The very narrow Mitchell Street was the home of the Glasgow Herald newspaper from 1895 until 1980 when new publishing practices created a requirement for more modern premises. The lower floors were used as production space where the newspapers where dispatched from platforms open to the street. When Glasgow was awarded the title "UK city of Architecture 1999", the block was altered and extended to create a modern Architecture and Design centre, the Lighthouse. As a working newspaper plant, the premises had been altered at various stages throughout the 20th century; as a result there were very few, if any, period furnishings to retain for its restoration.]

Variant Titles:

Lighthouse, The

Topics:

Architecture -- Britain -- 19th century -- (YVRC)

Period/Style:

Nineteenth century

Culture:

British
Scottish

Accession Number:

1A1-MCR-TL-B2

Genre:

architecture (AAT)
office buildings (AAT)

Format:

Image

Content Type:

Sculptures, Models, & Architecture

Rights:

Copyright Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc
The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.

Access Restrictions:

Yale Community Only

Digital:

architecture; Newspapers; publishing Art Nouveau; Nineteenth century buildings; industrial buildings; factories (structures); printing plants; buildings; office buildings; buildings; societies' buildings

Source Creator:

Gilchrist, Scott

Source Title:

Archivision Addition Module Five

Source Created:

2878 Chamonix, Montreal QC
Archivision, Inc.
2007

Source Note:

Purchase, Visual Resources Collection, May, 2011; photographer Scott Gilchrist

Yale Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Digital Collection:

Visual Resources Collection

Local Record Number:

4090

OID:

10054240

PID:

digcoll:1837632