{"id":45578,"date":"2014-07-24T12:11:36","date_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:11:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=9f23f6642b3bfe43077f290b392a20e5"},"modified":"2014-07-24T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T12:11:36","slug":"news-story-culture-secretary-visits-glasgow-school-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=45578","title":{"rendered":"News story: Culture Secretary visits Glasgow School of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The fire at the school on 23 May damaged the 1907-1909 section of the internationally significant Mackintosh Building and the Culture Secretary today visited the school.<\/p>\n

The UK Government has committed an additional \u00a35 million to go toward the costs of creating the school\u2019s Graduate and Research Centre, which was announced by the Chancellor on Tuesday 22nd July. This is on top of the \u00a35 million the UK Government announced last month for the school\u2019s Mackintosh Appeal, which aims to raise \u00a320 million to help with repairs.<\/p>\n

The fire has meant the school\u2019s plans to create a revolutionary Graduate and Research Centre has lost momentum and the \u00a310m Government investment, will help the school achieve its ambitious future.<\/p>\n

Sajid Javid said:<\/p>\n

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The damage done by the fire to the magnificent Mackintosh Building is terrible but what really hits is the loss of students\u2019 work and the many hours of creativity and dedication they poured into it.<\/p>\n

The resilience shown by the staff and students since the terrible fire is a real inspiration.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased the Government has been able to help secure the future of the Glasgow School of Art and I look forward to returning to see the Mackintosh Building when it has been restored to its former glory.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Glasgow School of Art was founded in 1845 as one of the first government schools of design. It is widely recognised as one of Europe\u2019s foremost university-level institutions for creative education and research in fine art, design and architecture. <\/p>\n

It has produced many of the UK\u2019s leading contemporary artists such as Douglas Gordon and David Shrigley and three recent Turner Prize winners: Simon Starling in 2005, Richard Wright in 2009 and Martin Boyce in 2011. Other former students include Harry Potter\/Cracker star Robbie Coltrane, the new Doctor Who Peter Capaldi and artist Peter Howson OBE.<\/p>\n

The building was designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the School\u2019s most distinguished alumni, in the late 19th century. It\u2019s one of Glasgow \u2013 and Scotland\u2019s and the UK\u2019s \u2013 most iconic and best known buildings and was judged to be best building of the past 175 years in a nationwide poll run by the Royal Institute of British Architects.<\/p>\n

On 18 June the school formally launched the Mackintosh Appeal, with Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi amongst its trustees, and aims to raise around \u00a320 million to support the institution in the work that needs to be undertaken following the fire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sajid Javid sees how \u00a35 million of UK Government funding will help restore the fire-damaged Glasgow School of Art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}