Glasgow Academy science & technology wing completes
May 18 2015
A new science and technology teaching wing for Glasgow Academy is nearing completion at the independent day school’s west end campus.The £10m Page\Park designed facility provides 37,000sq/ft of accommodation, framing the main Barclay Brothers campus building along Colebrooke Street on the site of a former tenement block which had been hit by subsidence.
Clad in polished white panels hung from a concrete frame the school faces an internal back court with a number of bay windowed break out spaces overlooking the main school.
Upon completion the new wing will play host to a ground floor 178 seat auditorium and food technology department with15 science labs above.
3 Comments
#1 Posted by James Tallent on 19 May 2015 at 13:42 PM
Beautiful. Tasteful without being bland; contemporary but discreet. A real addition for the Kelvinbridge area.
#2 Posted by Marc on 19 May 2015 at 16:03 PM
The guy sitting on the balcony sipping on an Irn Bru in the first image adds some fantastic realism.
#3 Posted by Big Chantelle on 20 May 2015 at 21:10 PM
Praise the Lord!
Well done Page\Park . J'adore this. beautiful classical proportions.
And I might have guessed the usual lllefty concrete modernists ***** would pipe in with their 'disneyland' adjectives but Page\Park , I give you my approval.
Well done Page\Park . J'adore this. beautiful classical proportions.
And I might have guessed the usual lllefty concrete modernists ***** would pipe in with their 'disneyland' adjectives but Page\Park , I give you my approval.
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