New Steven Holl Building at GSA

The weather was stunning today. The day started with the Mackintosh Society AGM at the House for an Art Lover. After the business part of the day HAL laid on a beautiful buffet lunch for us. In the afternoon we headed over to the GSA for a special tour of the new Steven Holl building. We all had to wear protective gear, so after going through all the security we were all kitted out with hard hats, protective glasses, hi viz jacket, boots and gloves. You can imagine how hot it was. We had an excellent tour of the building by Douglas Anderson, the GSA Project Manager. The new GSA building should be finished by the end of the year.

Steven Holl is recognised for his ability to blend space and light with great contextual sensitivity and to utilise the unique qualities of each project to create a concept-driven design. He specialises in seamlessly integrating new projects into contexts with particular cultural and historic importance. This is a view looking into one of the light wells, that brings natural light into the lower spaces of the building. I love the shape and form of this view.

After the the tour of the new build we had an opportunity to spend an hour going round the Degree Show. After our visit to the GSA we walked down to The Willow Tea Room for a much needed cup of tea and scone in the Room de Luxe.

A few us met up again in the evening for an excellent dinner at Mother India.

It all starts again tomorrow, with visits to The Hill House and Windyhill.

I have been so busy over the last few days I did not realise it was my 365 blip. Sorry I have not managed to respond to your blips, but I will catch up. Thanks for all your lovely comments.