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William Curtis contributed an inspiring reinterpretation of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's Glasgow School of Art building to the celebration of its 100th birthday last December, bringing new insights to a familiar, much-loved work. He has the measure of Mackintosh and his achievement, but perhaps not yet of Steven Holl and his new building for the school that will stand immediately opposite (AJ 04.11.10). Holl's empathy for Mackintosh's masterly manipulation of light was at the heart of his winning proposal, but it was not a singular concern, more the binder for other strands of architectural invention. From the outset was the desire to take a route up through the building as a hybrid between architectural promenade and atrium that promises an extraordinary spatial richness.