Cracking up: Hill House

Article Abstract:

Repairs have had to be carried out to historic Hill House, Helensburgh, Scotland. Hill House, built in 1902-3 to a design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh, is owned by the National Trust for Scotland. The outside of the house is harled - a form of rendering made from a form of dense cement - designed to run up to the chimney heads, uninterrupted by skews or sills. Cracking and deterioration had allowed water into the underlying soft sandstone and caused dry rot inside the building. Following experiments, carbon fibre rods were used to secure the harling and masonry, and a mineral paint was applied over the harling.

Scotland, Buildings and facilities, Works, Maintenance and repair, Historic buildings, Rennie Mackintosh, Charles

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Naval architecture

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A student architect has won an award for his design to convert a former lightship into a residential training school. Neil Jennings, a student of architecture at Canterbury, England, has won one of the AJ/Bovis Awards for architecture at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Jennings had been asked by the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust to plan the conversion of a redundant lightship. The ship, steel-built in the 1950s, was in good structural condition but the interior had to be redesigned for residential use.

Achievements and awards, Naval architecture

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