Publication Account

Date 1997

Event ID 1019526

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Publication Account

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019526

A demonstration of the persistence of the tradition of rationalistic, geometrical design within the Glasgow municipal architectural estabilishment: a secondary school planned with all teaching and assembly accomodation set in a concentric pattern of two circles. The outer circle contains a ing of wedge-shaped classrooms; at the centre, with open areas around, is a 13-sided, 71-seat hall. Typically of the matter-of-fact approach of Glasgow Corporation's architecture department, the elevations are sober reinforced concrete grids. In a smaller-scale echo of this design, a series of standardised circular primary schools was subsequenly built by Lanark County Council across the whole of Lanarkshire in the early 1970s. (Fig. 4.60).

Information from 'Rebuilding Scotland: The Postwar Vision, 1945-75', (1997).