The future of the architecturally illustrious centerpiece of the Glasgow School of Art—designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh and completed in stages between 1899 and 1909—is uncertain after the school said planned renovation work following two fires is too expensive to undertake on its own.

After a fire in 2014, actors Brad Pitt and Peter Capaldi led a fundraising drive to restore the building. But another blaze in 2018 did further damage that was deemed “exceptionally significant,” according to a BBC report tracing the timeline of what Stuart Robertson, the director of the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society, described as “like déjà vu.”