Great Architect Scotland
November 9th, 2009
For Mackintosh this was his massive break, and over the following twenty five years he made his visions real. From the external magnificence of Scotland Street college - now a museum - to the interior ambiance of the Cranston Tea Rooms.
There you can still sip scented tea whilst taking in the grandeur of furniture, fixtures, and wall hangings.
The atmosphere that Charles Rennie Mackintosh made has made the Tea Rooms as stylish and fashionable today as they were in Edwardian times. A century on and it has just been voted the best Brit building of the last 175 years - thrashing other impressive structures such as London’s Crystal Palace and the festival Hall. The editor of the Royal Institute of British architects journal, Hugh Pearman, called it’A mysteriously stunning building that manages to be rugged and delicate at the same time.’
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