Luigi De Marchi, Author at CulturalHeritageOnline - CHO

The Lighthouse (Glasgow Herald Building)

A young draughtsman hid his name inside a newspaper office. The tower he raised over Mitchell Lane gave him away.

Two towers of glass on a baronial frame. Mackintosh argued for every one of their panes.

Mackintosh drew it for a German magazine in 1901. It took eighty-eight years and an engineer’s obsession to build.

Horta did not hide the steel here. He hung the facade from it, then lit the rooms behind through a glass dome.

A house that advertises itself. Cauchie painted his living, in plaster, across his own front wall.

Four metres of street, four storeys of invention. Strauven spent every centimetre.

An engineer who photographed light asked a friend to build him a house full of it. Brunfaut did it once, and only once.

Horta built a temple to fabric. A century later it became a temple to Tintin, and the iron still holds the light.

A young baron’s Art Deco palace, built around a pool and clad in granite, now restored as a centre for art and dialogue.

One of Europe’s first high-rise towers, an Art Deco landmark that defined the Antwerp skyline for the rest of the century.