Burrell Collection reopening: a great Glasgow one-off becomes just a little less extraordinary

Pollok Country Park, Glasgow
After a five-year, £68m renovation, this prized 1970s building housing a great art collection is now more spacious and visitor-friendly – but at what cost to its original design?The Burrell Collection is majestic and abundant, a rich man’s hoard of 9,000 objects, industrial wealth transmogrified into Chinese porcelain and medieval stained glass, paintings by French impressionists and Scottish colourists, Persian carpets, suits of armour, Roman and E