The Mackintosh Interpretation Centre is a new gallery dedicated to the life and work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife, the designer Margaret MacDonald. Sited within Mackintosh's first building, the Glasgow Herald, now converted into The Lighthouse, Scotland's new Centre for Architecture and Design, the Centre consists of three distinct areas. The first is an information area giving the location of Mackintosh buildings and collections. This is followed by the tower with its new helical staircase rising up to the view over the city. The third area is the interpretive gallery, which examines Mackintosh and MacDonald's life and work together. The white gallery space is divided by a 16m curving etched glass wall directing visitors towards the stone enclosure of the tower. Clear slots in the wall contain models of Mackintosh's key buildings and allow glimpses of the gallery beyond.