{"id":33835,"date":"2022-07-19T16:18:04","date_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:18:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsblogsnew.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33835"},"modified":"2022-07-19T16:18:04","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T15:18:04","slug":"ihbcs-imho-the-burrell-collection-renovation-for-better-or-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=33835","title":{"rendered":"IHBC\u2019s IMHO: The Burrell Collection renovation &#8211; For better or worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=22764473\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-33836\" src=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Burrell_collection_Glasgow_Helen_Simonsson_Wikipedia.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>Some controversial decisions attended John McAslan and Partners\u2019 renovation of Glasgow\u2019s Burrell Collection, as the <em>RIBA Journal<\/em> asks if the improvements outweigh the perceived drawbacks?<\/h3>\n<h6><em>image: By Helen Simonsson &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=22764473<\/em><\/h6>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">\u2026immediately upon being eligible, the Burrell Collection was Category A-listed\u2026<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<p>The <em>RIBA journal<\/em> writes:<\/p>\n<p>The Burrell Collection in Glasgow has reopened to the public following a five year renovation led by John McAslan and Partners. The building had been suffering from myriad issues that required attention, but the scheme has been called into question due to its reconfiguration, which threatened the fundamental qualities that made it one of the best modern buildings in Scotland.<\/p>\n<p>An open RIBA competition was held in 1972 to design a new home for the art collection of wealthy shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and his wife Constance. Won by young Cambridge architects Barry Gasson, John Meunier and Brit Andresen, the new gallery would go on to house 9,000 objects considered by many to be the best private collection of its type in the world\u2026<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, immediately upon being eligible, the Burrell Collection was Category A-listed\u2026<\/p>\n<p>John McAslan and Partners was appointed in 2016 to lead the \u2018re-invention\u2019 of the museum as part of a five year, \u00a368 million undertaking to refurbish and improve the Burrell.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ribaj.com\/buildings\/the-burrell-collection-gallery-glasgow-john-mcaslan-and-partners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more&#8230;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some controversial decisions attended John McAslan and Partners\u2019 renovation of Glasgow\u2019s Burrell Collection, as the RIBA Journal asks if the improvements outweigh the perceived drawbacks? image: By Helen Simonsson &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=22764473<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ihbc-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33837,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33835\/revisions\/33837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}