Architecture Notes

Event ID 722643

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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Iona, The Macleod Centre.

NMRS:

Plans, elevations, sections and perspectives of winning and premiated designs.

Insc: 'The Macleod Centre, Iona'.

Young, R., 1985.

Copy held in Moira and Moira Collection.

ARCHITECT: Feilden Clegg Design 1984

(Undated) information in NMRS.

Designed to accomodate visitors to the Iona Community, replacing the Youth Camp, a group of huts built for the workforce who restored the abbey. Named after the community's founder, Lord George MacLeod. Scheme won an international competition organised by RIAS, 1984. Opened August 1988. Cost: £700,000, met by fund-raising campaign. Provides 65 beds, community/dining room, craft room, study areas, and residential staff area.

RIAS 1990