Wonders & blunders

By Euan McEwan and Euan McEwan Euan McEwan 2005-10-21T00:00:00

Glasgow style Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a junior draughtsman at the firm of Honeyman and Keppie, designed the Glasgow School of Art in 1896 as a design competition entry. It was built between 1897 and1909, and is a destination for 20,000 tourists a year.

Euan McEwan applauds the contextual subtlety of the Glasgow School of Art and decries a brutal misfit in rural Bedfordshire

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