Hill House Box in Helensburgh, Scottish Architecture, Images, Building Restoration Scotland
Hill House Box
Protection for Charles Rennie Mackintosh Building in Argyll, Scotland
30 Nov 2018
Hill House Box in Helensburgh
Architects: Carmody Groarke
Location: Hill House, Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, western Scotland
Box the Hill House
WORK BEGINS ON PIONEERING ?BOX? AT CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH MASTERPIECE
Construction is officially underway on a pioneering project designed to save the Hill House ? regarded as Charles Rennie Mackintosh‘s domestic masterpiece.
Robertson has started building a unique ?Box? which will envelop the famous building in Helensburgh to protect it from the elements as part of the National Trust for Scotland?s ambitious restoration plans. CGI of the ‘Box’ at the Hill House:

A truly unique construction project, it will see an innovative chainmail structure erected around the building over the course of the next six months. Designed by architects Carmody Groarke, the mesh pavilion will help the Hill House dry out after more than a century of absorbing rain, allowing further conservation work to be carried out on the famous house.
Once work on the ?Box? is completed in spring next year, it will then open to visitors who will be able to use the raised walkways to see the Hill House from a new angle while offering views over the Clyde estuary.
The Hill House was built in 1904 for publisher Walter Blackie ? and to mark the start of the con...