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MSA Stage 4

Mackintosh School of Architecture / 15 students / Bourdon Building

This programme offers an intensive training in the factors which impact building, and the specific skills of being an architect. Student projects centre on contemporary issues of urban building, with work ranging from live projects and sponsored research to competitions and theoretical studies. Stage 4 students turn their attention onto the city of Glasgow, with works which looks at different parts of the city, thinking about our communities and their needs. The projects address social housing, buildings at risk and underutilised spaces, and the social and environmental needs of people in communities across Glasgow.

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Ailsa Hutton

Anjian Huang

The approach to the building balances civic prominence with contextual sensitivity, ensuring it is clearly identifiable within the cityscape while remaining empathetic to the existing fabric of Broomielaw. This relationship is articulated through a visually permeable threshold formed by a double-skin polycarbonate façade, which allows glimpses of internal activity before physical entry and establishes a gradual transition between city and institution. Acting as a luminous veil, the polycarbonate mediates transparency and light, producing a softened civic presence that glows from within while maintaining visual permeability to the public realm. In doing so, the building achieves civic stature without the heaviness of traditional stone, instead fostering a lighter material expression that engages in a respectful dialogue with neighbouring structures, including the Clydeport Building. This layered threshold extends into the interior, dissolving the boundary between inside and outside and encouraging curiosity, openness, and accessibility within the civic space.

Charlotte Bell

Eilidh Duffy

Emma Kane

Hanan Hussain

Hannah Serena Krause

Irma Douglas

Isobel Hill

Jamie Harrison

Joshua Davey

A photograph of a man with a orange shirt, short brown hair, and a moustache standing in the foreground. In the background, is the North Christian Church by Eero Saarinen, a pentagram-shaped building with a tall spire in the center.

Maxwell Raymond Berner

Megan Miller

Olivia Dallas

Samuel Justice