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Mackintosh masterpiece to be reborn

Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2005 / February 7

An architectural masterpiece which has lain derelict for more than 20 years is to be converted into a luxury shopping, office and leisure development.A firm of developers from Guernsey aims to restore the A-listed art nouveau building by Charles Rennie Mackintosh in the centre of Glasgow as a prime landmark. The largely forgotten site in Renfield Lane, which once housed the Daily Record printworks, and the former Scottish Temperance League building in Hope Street – a neighbouring grade-A listed property built by Glasgow firm Salmon, Son & Gillespie – will be renovated and turned into offices, shops, cafe, restaurant and a pub. An official from Glasgow City Council said there were still a large number of features worthy of preservation in the building, arguably the most neglected example of Mackintosh's work on the heritage trail.

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