Another transfer of public assets to private business.

hardly if it's leasehold. Maintenance costs turn assets into liabilities.

You think the public money that created the lighthouse was actually intended to support the creation of an office facility?

I would like to see the detail on this. There have always been a number of tenants in the Lighthouse eg A+DS and a few other small practices. Does this mean that exhibition space will be converted and therefore lost. Will we lose both temporary and permanent exhibits (ie the Mackintosh interpretation room). Will we lose the wonderful signage by Javier Mariscal - something that gave the place a real indentity?
I must say that I disagree with the good councillor's assertion of an, 'architectural treasure in search of a purpose'. The purpose was abundantly clear - it was SCOTLAND's , not just Glasgow's centre for architecture and design. What it lacked in the end was 2-fold; proper investment and, possibly more importantly, curation and promotion. Both these were evident at the start but at the end both were missing. It always seemed a bit stuffy and up itself and was always empty. The only time I ever saw it vibrant was when it hosted clubs - waaay back in the noughties or held design markets. These are the kind of things that needed to happen alongside the more high-brow stuff.
If you look at the kind of exhibition and outreach of the Farrell centre in Newcastle, it puts the Lighthouse to shame and that is just meant to be a regional design centre. It is embarrassing for a city like Glasgow that has set much stall in its design credentials that we have been without The Lighthouse for so long. But having said that , as a national centre, it needs national funding just as Glasgow's other civic treasures - Kelvingrove and Burrell.
When I said 'curation' earlier on - this comes with the obvious need for a permanent staff that will curate and promote the centre. I think A+DS need to have a role here too. Leaving it up to some tech renewable guys and gals sounds like a recipe for disaster.

We are living a fantasy -- Glesga and its supposed design vibe ...

It is not there -- what do we make that needs a design input and what can we offer to make our mark in the world?

We have a global asset in CRM but what efforts do we make to carry on even his furniture design legacy.

Big Art School that struggles to move beyond jewelry in the local economy -- not good.

You’ve got so many so called ‘green’ entities chewing up public funds already that it seems really odd to co-opt a publicly funded design centre into that already overcrowded melee.