The Hill House is one of the masterpieces of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland’s most celebrated architect. “Here is the house,” Mackintosh proclaimed upon its completion in 1904. “It is not an Italian Villa, an English Mansion House, a Swiss Chalet, or a Scotch Castle. It is a Dwelling House.”The building has deteriorated over the years and it has been enveloped in a vast steel shelter to protect the house during the necessary restoration. The Hill House Box — a sort of architectural intensive-care unit — is itself an atypical project, though very different to the structure it encloses.
Via Things Magazine
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