Hope for CCA repairs - but centre will not open until next month
THE CCA art centre in Glasgow will not be re-opened to the public until at least early October.
However, after a meeting between the Glasgow School of Art (GSA), the Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA) and Glasgow City Council yesterday, it was decided that workmen could enter the beleaguered arts centre to fix a leak which has led to a ceiling collapse in its exhibition space.
A GSA statement last night said the eight week programme for dismantling parts of the gutted Mackintosh Building was now “virtually complete” and its contractors will now work “flat out” to complete the works needed so that the CCA can re-open.
Scotland’s arts funding body, Creative Scotland, has backed a three-step proposal by the director of Glasgow’s CCA to re-open the beleaguered centre which has been shut since the GSA fire, endangering its future.
The CCA is a key national arts venue and home to more than a dozen businesses in the city’s Sauchiehall Street.
Its site includes a fire exit on Scott Street, which city officials have believe is still a dangerous area. The towering and damaged west wing of the gutted Mackintosh Building stands on the same street.
Francis McKee, its director, has suggested steps to allow a re-opening, including the construction of a new safety canopy over the exit.
Creative Scotland, which owns the building, has said it should re-open “as quickly as possible” and
The GSA said that it was now agreed that access to the building could be arranged to fix the water ingress.