try glasgow more

he was evacuated early and quickly and his phone and bag were left behind which is why he hadn't replied. So thankful this morning!

https://i.imgur.com/iogjReG.jpg

Everyone using the word ‘heartbreaking’ and I’d say that’s accurate.

Holy fuck, how could it happen for a second time. Isn’t the degree show on just now.

Renovations and roofing work seem to cause a lot of fires, but how exactly = ?

this is so fuckin sad

Rotten news to wake up to. Second big fire in the city centre within a matter of months :-(

oh shit that's very sad, rip iconic CRM building :(

"Renovations and roofing work seem to cause a lot of fires, but how exactly = ?"

Was just listening to a report that the builders renovating the roof had to relearn 100 year old roofing techniques, but I'd presume this wouldn't include forsaking all modern fire safety regs as well.

Glad to hear that he was safe, boxedjoy.

Does anyone know how things are this morning? There's a few photos from earlier today in this Guardian 'In Pictures' piece, but it's hard to really tell: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/gallery/2018/jun/16/flames-spread-through-glasgow-school-of-art-in-scotland-in-pictures

OK, here's my answer, from police helicopter... awful.

16.06.18 Assisted @GreaterGlasgPol @fire_scot by providing images of the damage to Glasgow School of Art and surrounding buildings. Road closures will be in place throughout the day. pic.twitter.com/3AIpi9xRdf

— PoliceScotlandAir (@polscotair) June 16, 2018

aye looks done

This is crazy + wtf. It's like Glasgow's gone back to the 70s, when the whole place was constantly catching fire.

jesus christ that picture

This is crazy + wtf. It's like Glasgow's gone back to the 70s, when the whole place was constantly catching fire.

There's a very well established theory that links all these together with planning permission denial and the plan to bulldoze all of central Glasgow and build it all again. Interestingly the School of Art was one of the properties to be demolished in the Bruce Report.

Part of Sauchiehall St is already closed off because of the previous fire, and for the last few months they've been digging parts of it up, so the whole area is going to be in a right old state for months and months.

Got a text from a friend who teaches at the Art School -

"It's unbelievable! Thankfully no-one hurt and no student work destroyed, just 20 to 30 million wasted on refurb over the next few years".

refurb??

If it's even possible I'd imagine the sum would be considerably larger.

Alan Dunlop, the school’s professor of architecture, said: “I can’t see any restoration possible for the building itself. It looks totally destroyed.”

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/jun/16/glasgow-school-of-art-may-be-beyond-repair-after-fire

This theory about building new housing ties in nicely with the absurd closure of The Arches

refurb??

I think my friend is talking about the work done on the building after the 2014 fire. And yes, the papers today are talking about £100m to rebuild this time round - so it's a goner :-(

what happens to all the students who were at various points of their particular courses at GSoA? That would seem like an additionally expensive clusterfuck to sort out.

I imagine lots of their work has been reduced to ash and while that may stretch some ppl's sense of "oh the humanity" :p, but still it's an absolute fucker.

not to mention all the staff whose working lives are in chaos right now

Were any staff/students actually working out of the Mackintosh building? I thought they'd all been relocated while the refurbishment took place.

ah right, I thought they might have still been using part of the building. I was talking to an Auntie about this last night, and she had a booze/phet assisted nervous breakdown during her fine art degree. And she was saying if her work had been destroyed it would have tipped her over the edge.

Makes me sick to the pit of my stomach just thinking about it.

Also, RIP giant glitterball in the ABC. Fair fucks to the Garage for managing to put Saturday night's Belly gig on at very short notice. The ABC, while not as much of a touchstone as the Mackintosh building, is one of the best gig venues in Glasgow, and I have fond memories of it as a cinema where I went on some terrible dates when I first moved down here. There's a great piece on Facebook by the Lost Glasgow guy about its history as a circus and general house of awesome entertainment back in the day.

i hope the whole of glasgow doesn't go on fire tomorrow. 32 degrees!

I'm going up there at the weekend, at least my mum can't moan about the terrible weather for a change - or can she?

i literally cannae remember it being in the 30s in glasgow ever - though i understand we had similar weather in 1995 - this seems to have slipped my mind - and 1975. the latter summer was the first summer my dad arrived in glasgow from chile. he thought "this weather is no bad, quite like home" and then has complained about shitey summers for 40 plus years hence

though i understand we had similar weather in 1995 - this seems to have slipped my mind

mine too.

at least my mum can't moan about the terrible weather for a change - or can she?

Yes, she can (and will if she's anything like mine)

actually, that summer in the 90s is coming back to me now. everyone was telling me how tanned i was. i don't get that tanned any more, why is that?

actually, i remember my mum telling me (apologies in advance) that i was "like a wee d****e"

they were different times.

the current regime of buskers needs to change. Its ruining the Buchanan area.

buchanan street is murder for buskers but it's always been and it can be mainly avoided.

where always is since the early 90s

need not apply

https://i.imgur.com/ySe3i23.jpg

omg

Amazing.

Just boarded a bus at Buchanan bus station and overheard a 20 year old and a 40 year old connecting over Belle and Sebastian in a lovely honest chat.

Glasgow is funny in that despite never living here I still miss it - the two gigs a month make me feel like I know it better than some places I’ve lived for years.

I'm doing my annual pilgrimage home next month, cannae wait

Jim, Nae Pasaran is on at the gft on the 12th

https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/nae-pasaran-qanda-ctbc

Is that a Harry Potter shop on big bus street?

I don’t know. Union street?

Yes, I barely know the names of any streets.

Should be renamed to big bus street.

it's such a tip.

Jim, Nae Pasaran is on at the gft on the 12th

https://glasgowfilm.org/shows/nae-pasaran-qanda-ctbc

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shiter, a week too early for me! thanks for letting me know

damn.

that's what you get for trying to avoid the balmy weather, i suppose.