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Glasgow Live
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Lucinda Cameron & Jennifer Russell

Glasgow School of Art Mackintosh rebuild sees 5,500 tonnes of fire damaged material removed

The first phase of physical preparation works for rebuilding Glasgow School of Art's fire-damaged Mackintosh building has been completed, art school bosses have said.

The world-renowned building, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, was extensively damaged when a blaze broke out late on June 15 2018 as it neared the end of a £35 million restoration project following a previous fire in May 2014.

A Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS) investigation was unable to establish how the 2018 blaze started and recorded the origin and cause as "undetermined".

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