DOI Heft:
No. 83 (February, 1900)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0067
Studio- Talk
For many years the School occupied premises other flats by means of a lift. The ornament
yearly rented to it by the Corporation. Incon- rooms, still-life class-rooms, design room, library
venient in almost every detail of its arrangement, and lecture room are conveniently disposed on
the work of the School was carried on under most the main floor. The main staircase is flanked
disadvantageous circumstances in over - heated, on either side by the male and female students'
badly ventilated rooms, ill adapted for their pur- cloak-rooms. The half landing of the stairs gives
pose. For some time the Governors had been access to an entresol containing luncheon-rooms
sensible of a growing need for improved and for the students On the first floor a good effect
extended accommodation, and an appeal to the is obtained by the treatment of the space around
public was made for funds to erect a new school, the staircase. This is utilised as a large open
Principally owing to the indefatigable exertions of hall, lighted from the roof, affording all the re-
the Chairman, Mr. James Fleming, the Governors quirements for a museum, and leaving space avail-
were successful in obtaining a sum sufficient to able for exhibitions of students' works,
erect a building large enough for the present
requirements of the School. Competitive plans
were invited from several Glasgow architects, and The headmaster's room, with private studio
the design by Messrs. John Honeyman and above, is placed in a central position on the first
Keppie was selected. The
building consists of three
faces north, giving an
ample and steady light to
In the basement are
placed the modelling
rooms, architectural depart-
ment, technical workshops,
and a lecture theatre,
together with caretaker's
accommodation, heating-
chamber, packing and
store rooms. All of these
have access from the main
corridor dividing the build-
ing, and the store-room
communicates with the
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GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART; FIRST FLOOR CORRIDOR FROM A PHOTOGRAPH
For many years the School occupied premises other flats by means of a lift. The ornament
yearly rented to it by the Corporation. Incon- rooms, still-life class-rooms, design room, library
venient in almost every detail of its arrangement, and lecture room are conveniently disposed on
the work of the School was carried on under most the main floor. The main staircase is flanked
disadvantageous circumstances in over - heated, on either side by the male and female students'
badly ventilated rooms, ill adapted for their pur- cloak-rooms. The half landing of the stairs gives
pose. For some time the Governors had been access to an entresol containing luncheon-rooms
sensible of a growing need for improved and for the students On the first floor a good effect
extended accommodation, and an appeal to the is obtained by the treatment of the space around
public was made for funds to erect a new school, the staircase. This is utilised as a large open
Principally owing to the indefatigable exertions of hall, lighted from the roof, affording all the re-
the Chairman, Mr. James Fleming, the Governors quirements for a museum, and leaving space avail-
were successful in obtaining a sum sufficient to able for exhibitions of students' works,
erect a building large enough for the present
requirements of the School. Competitive plans
were invited from several Glasgow architects, and The headmaster's room, with private studio
the design by Messrs. John Honeyman and above, is placed in a central position on the first
Keppie was selected. The
building consists of three
faces north, giving an
ample and steady light to
In the basement are
placed the modelling
rooms, architectural depart-
ment, technical workshops,
and a lecture theatre,
together with caretaker's
accommodation, heating-
chamber, packing and
store rooms. All of these
have access from the main
corridor dividing the build-
ing, and the store-room
communicates with the
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GLASGOW SCHOOL OF ART; FIRST FLOOR CORRIDOR FROM A PHOTOGRAPH