Ruchill Parish Church and Halls on Shakespeare Street in the north of Glasgow. The pale sandstone halls were designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh and were built in 1899, while the red sandstone church was built a few years later in 1903 and was designed by Neil C. Duff. The reason why MacKintosh was not also commissioned to design the church as well as the halls is a bit of a mystery.
I've always been intrigued by the similarities between these two buildings. On the left is a 1770s tenement on Gallowgate in Glasgow (containing the Heilan Jessie pub), while on the right is Charles Rennie MacKintosh's iconic 1902 Hill House in Helensburgh. Given that MacKintosh lived in Dennistoun until 1892, he would likely have passed the Gallowgate tenement, and I wonder if it acted as an inspiration for him.
@thisismyglasgow I remember them building the cover over the top of the CRM place in Helensburgh a while back. I forget why, unless the Gareloch weather has taken its toll.
Westdel on Queen's Place in the Hyndland area of Glasgow. Designed by George Washington Browne, it was originally built in 1890 for Robert MacLehose, who ran the Glasgow University Press and whose initials are inscribed on its date plaque in the bottom left corner of the photo. At one time it had a bedroom designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh, but this is now in the University's collections.
Dunglass Castle on the shore of the Clyde Estuary near Bowling to the west of Glasgow. Originally built in 1380 for the Barony of Colhouquon. By the 1700s it lay in ruins. In 1899, the house in the background was bought by the parents of the Glasgow Style artists Margaret and Frances MacDonald. The interior was later re-modelled by Margaret's husband, Charles Rennie MacKintosh.
@littlemouse I went up to see it on Friday, but they'd recovered it. I'll hopefully get up there today and take a look. From what I've seen of it while it was being built, it looks like it'll be pretty impressive.
I had a spell working in Glasgow in 1987 ... The year of the garden festival in the city ... Took a copy of a paperback collection of Para Handy stories.
That was the year I got to see the city. To admire it as I do my birth city of Birmingham.
I love this beautiful little church on Dalmarnock Road in the Bridgeton area of Glasgow. Originally built as an Evangelical Union Chuch in 1901, it was designed by J.C. MacKellar in an Art Nouveau style and is reminiscent of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's 1899 Ruchill Parish Church Halls and his Queen's Cross Church, also built in 1899.
The Charles Rennie MacKintosh designed House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. I love the patterns created on its walls by the shadows cast by the low Winter sun.
I love this lock plate on John Nisbet's 1907 terrace of Glasgow Style townhouses on Bute Gardens in the west end of Glasgow.
To me, there's more than a hint of MacKintosh in the decoration, which may be explained by the fact that Nisbet was a former classmate of MacKintosh at the Glasgow School of Art.
It's just a pity it's been rather defaced by the later addition of a handle.
One of the absolutely gorgeous lampshades designed by Glasgow architect Charles Rennie MacKintosh in the first years of the 20th Century for Hill House in Helensburgh.
@thisismyglasgow I was there recently and the tour guide pointed out that they were designed for gas lighting, which would have flickered, sending shadows around the room...
@Jobob Humm, I'm not too sure about that. Gas lights of that time would have used a mantle specifically to provide a constant and unflickering source of light.
One of the main living areas in Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh. I'm always surprised at how contemporary MacKintosh's interiors look, despite being created in the early 1900s.
Love this stylised flower motif on a bedroom wardrobe in Charles Rennie MacKintosh's Hill House in Helensburgh. It's a perfect example of the timeless beauty of his work.
Commissioned by the Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie and completed in 1904, this is one of Charles Rennie MacKintosh's masterpieces, both inside and out.
It's undergoing preservation work and currently the entire house is enclosed on a metal cage. However, stairways have been included as part of this cage so you can view the house from angles that would just not be possible from the ground.
@thisismyglasgow yes ditto. Certainly planning on returning to have another look. Detailing is fascinating, but I really love the use of space and the way that it is laid out. It is a certainty a house that is worth taking time over visiting.
Redclyffe and Torrisdale. Constructed in 1890, this pair of semi-detached houses on Balgrayhill Road in Glasgow are thought to have been designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh for his cousin James Hamilton and may have been one of his first commissions.
@sister_ratched It's by no means definite that they were designed by CRM. He might obly have done the interiors. However, they do have a bit of a unique feel to them which, even though they differ from his later stuff, is quite different that what others were doing at the time.
A House for an Art Lover in Bellahouston Park in Glasgow. It was designed by Charles Rennie MacKintosh and Margaret MacDonald in 1901 as an entry to a competition run by the German design magazine Zeitschrift Fur Innendekoration. While design was very much praised by the judges, it was disqualifies on a technicality. The design was finally brought to life in 1989 and was completed in 1990.
@thisismyglasgow Absolutely, being able to walk over the top of the house (inside the scaffold box which is allowing the building to dry out) is fascinating. The interior is also brilliant (but because of the box, it is best to go on a good day).