Whine and Cheese

I'd meant to post about this some time back, but thanks to my office blocking LJ posting, I'd set it aside and had forgotten.



A fire broke out at the Glasgow School of Art earlier this month. While it's a school, the building itself was very cool in itself as it was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The news article has a few interior photos of the building.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27541883

When I was in Glasgow, Scotland in December 2012, I was lucky enough to have time to go on a tour of the school. The building has multiple floors and several pieces of work in progress by the student body. Sadly, because of the artwork in progress, no interior photography was allowed, so the picture above is one of the few photos of the school I could take.

I'm glad I had a chance to see the school. I know they are trying to salvage as much of the school as they can, but I'm sure a lot of important Mackintosh pieces were lost.

I posted a video from my day in Glasgow but Flickr is still processing it, so I suspect there is a problem with it. I'll try to fix it later. Uploading takes a while.

The video from Edinburgh is fine though.




Here's the link in case it doesn't load:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/81961449@N00/8259655557/