Steven Holl Architects Selected to Design New Building for Glasgow School of Art

The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) announced that Steven Holl Architects (New York) working with Scottish based JM Architects has been selected, as the result of an international competition, to lead the team to design a new building on the site opposite the world famous Mackintosh Building in Garnethill, Glasgow.

Steven Holl Architects is a leading New York based practice which has been recognized internationally with some of architecture's most prestigious awards and prizes.

These include recent awards from the American Institute of Architects and the Royal Incorporation of British Architects for the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City and the School of Art at Iowa University.

Awards have also recognised their commitment to sustainable design.

Recent work includes the Herning Centre for the Arts in Denmark and a major development in Beijing where they also have an office.

They will work with Henry McKeown and Ian Alexander, award winning directors from the Glasgow office of JM Architects.

The brief for Steven Holl's team is to work with GSA to refine the Masterplan for GSA's Garnethill estate redevelopment and to design and deliver Phase 1, a new building to significantly enhance the teaching, learning and research facilities available to GSA students and staff and the access which the public can have to their work.