{"id":19328,"date":"2018-06-19T17:40:42","date_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=19328"},"modified":"2018-06-19T17:40:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-19T16:40:42","slug":"glasgow-fire-art-schools-mackintosh-building-extensively-damaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=19328","title":{"rendered":"Glasgow fire: Art school&#8217;s Mackintosh building extensively damaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BBC_website190618.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-19329\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BBC_website190618.png\" alt=\"website\" width=\"300\" height=\"364\" \/><\/a>Glasgow&#8217;s world-renowned School of Art has been gutted by another huge blaze, four years after part of the building was destroyed by fire.<\/h3>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>BBC writes:<\/p>\n<p>Flames ripped through the celebrated Mackintosh building after it caught fire at about 23:20 on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The blaze spread to nearby buildings, including the Campus nightclub and O2 ABC music venue, which suffered &#8220;extensive damage&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The renovated Mackintosh library had been due to reopen next year.<\/p>\n<p>It was destroyed in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-27556659\">the blaze that ripped through the building in May 2014<\/a>. It was being restored in a project estimated to cost up to \u00a335m.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service&#8217;s Deputy Assistant Chief Officer Peter Heath said the fire damage was &#8220;exceptionally significant&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He said it was likely that all the restoration work carried out since the last fire had been destroyed&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-44504659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more background see the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IHBC NewsBlogs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow&#8217;s world-renowned School of Art has been gutted by another huge blaze, four years after part of the building was destroyed by fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19330,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19328\/revisions\/19330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}