Disaster in Glasgow
May 23 2014
Picture: Apollo/@xdxxnx on Twitter
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh building at the Glasgow School of art is on fire, after a projector exploded in the basement. Awful, awful, awful. Latest here.
Update: The Scotsman, which has the photo below of the fire-ravaged interior, reports that the rebuilding will cost up to £20m. Much of the building and contents were saved, but the famous library has been destroyed. There's not much more on the cause, but it's said that the exploding projector set fire to some nearby foam. Final year art students were installing their art projects at the time, and if I had to guess what happened, it's that someone was using one of those old-fashioned projectors that are de rigeur for contemporary installations.
Update II - further photos from inside here.
