Architect Ruairidh Moir looks at two major Glasgow buildings, both built at the same time and in two phases, but in contrasting styles, Sir John James Burnet’s Clyde Navigation Trust building and Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art.
Ruairidh studied and worked in both Glasgow and Barcelona. Founder of the architectural practice BARD, he tutors at the Strathclyde School of Architecture.
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