The Mackintosh Building will be rebuilt as a fully working art school says Tom Inns, director of the Glasgow School of Art.
The announcement from the Glasgow School of Art ends weeks of speculation over what will happen to the historic building, which was devastated by a fire last month.
"The Mackintosh Building will be rebuilt and will be a working art school," Inns told Dezeen.
"It is as vital a part of the Glasgow School of Art's future as it has been for the last 100 years. We will rebuild so that 'the Mack' can continue to provide creative inspiration to students, staff and visitors."
The Glasgow School of Art was largely destroyed in a fire on 15 June 2018. Photo by Jeff J Mitchell
The Glasgow School of Art is the best-known building designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scotland's most famous architect. Following a fire on Friday 15 June 2018 that largely destroyed the building, there has been a debate over the future of the structure. Restoring the building is estimated to cost £100 million ? almost three times as much as the £35 million cost of the last renovation, which was undertaken following the previous major fire in 2014, and which was almost complete.
Some Scottish architects and academics, including Alan Dunlop, have argued that the building should not be rebuilt, and that a new structure should be created instead.
However since the fire there has been growing momentum to rebuild the school of art in a manner that is faithfu...