Glasgow School of Arts / Steven Holl
Steven Holl Architects, in collaboration with Glasgow-based JM Architects, was awarded first prize in the international design competition for the Glasgow School of Art Competition. The selection committee, chaired by Barcelona-based architect David MacKay, sought to select an architect-led team, not a design. The committee unanimously chose Steven Holl Architects because Holl’s work demonstrated “a poetic use of light and their submission demonstrated a singular creative vision, scale of ambition, profound clarity and a respectful rivalry for the Mackintosh Building.”
More about Holl’s project after the break.
The project will sit opposite the iconic Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s building and “will significantly enhance the teaching, learning and research facilities available to GSA students and staff and the access which the public will have to their work.”
Inspired by Mackintosh’s “inventive manipulation of the building section for a tremendous variety of light”, Holl’s design consists of studio volumes shaped by light and connected by a “circuit of connection” to encourage creative interaction among the students. The envisioned building skin is also 100% recycled glass with an intelligent solar cavity harvesting heat in winter and cooling in summer.
Steven Holl said, “100 years after completion, Mackintosh’s building continues to inspire as a work of architecture and a place to make art….We feel the urgency of recovering the integral action of “thinking and making” in the use of the highest new technologies available. We imagine the new Glasgow School of Art to be a celebration of Knowledge: the phenomenological and experiential joys of perception supercharged by the techniques of tomorrow.”
All images courtesy of Steven Holl Architects.
Supercharged, intelligent, great.
Light and shadow just the perfect recipe from our fantastic Louis Khan to make any building become a unique sensorial experience for our senses. I am glad to see that Holl is still into experimenting with high impact and user experience as a mean to channel enjoyment of a building.
Great work…Holl you still have 100 more years to keep on going…I cannot wait to see what is next.
It all started carving gypsum board…wow…!!! (holl knows what I am talking about)
No, I don’t
hahaha
哈哈 这是真的霍尔么？
is you real Holl? You r so homor.
frank Wilson–你也太扯了吧。
When I watch the Glascow School of Art video & see the competition work of Steven Holl, I get excited about Architecture again!
THANK YOU!
=8-)
Steven holl buildings are very intriguing….but i believe architects from glasgow could have done a fair job as well…
ace comment.
the competition was about drawing a section?
really now… i can see a section but whres the bulding???
Salvadore, the competition was the selection of a design team not a design proposal. The section serves to demonstrate an approach inspired by CRM’s work on the existing art school.
As a student at the Mack I look forward to seeing this develop over the next few years, there were a number of Glasgow and UK practices in the final five, however it is my opinion that this was the strongest entry. Well done to Holl and JM Architects.
i heard alot about The Mac architecture school an thats why im curious whats happening! the text says its an international design competition…. and i would love to see more. maybe a link or something on some student blog…
Salvadore, the art school set up a site for the staff and students to view the entries however due to the nature of the viewer it was impossible to download the images, perhaps over then next few weeks images will emerge…
Hi S. Holl,
I meant your greatest interior work yet “Mr. Shaw’s office”. Pure gyp. bd. carving, light, color texture and dark intensity. Now you know..!!!
FW
fantastic – definitely the strongest entry.
dont forget, they are also working with JM Architects, who are based in Scotland.
other entries:
http://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/daily-news/revealed-leaked-images-of-mackintosh-shortlist/5202387.article
i have to say – the Elder & Cannon visualisation is the most accurate representation of glasgow – dark and rainy!
Thx Vitsee!
The (well of light) concept suits the enormous need for daylight in such a building teaching art..
light is an art by itself & integrating it in a building in not only providing a healthy environment but also a tool teaching art of nature!
Steven Holl is always amazing with his lighting techniques!
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