Carntyne Primary School handed over
November 20 2018
BAM Construction have handed over a completed Carntyne Primary School, built on the playground of the existing school at Liberton Street, which remained in operation throughout.
The 231-capacity school includes its own multi-use games hall and has been designed by Holmes Miller Architects on behalf of Glasgow City Council.
Bruce Dickson, regional director at BAM Construction, said: “Working on a site where the existing school remains operational and in the middle of a residential area always requires careful consideration and planning.”
Iain Marley, chief executive, hub West Scotland added: “Carntyne Primary School is an inspiring and high quality learning environment with a fresh contemporary look and feel and high quality finishes throughout the school.”
A sister primary school at Blairdardie is scheduled for completion in spring 2019.
6 Comments
Seems to be set up to handle a small scale single stream student cohort -- 1 class x 33 pupils across the 7 primary grades.
Consequently not a very efficient way of providing primary education in an urban environment -- Chiefs vs Indians?
Multi purpose hall looks a bit small plus more low cost covered space would have been useful given our climate and a need to get the children moving about every day.
As noted above the design will be able to be dated to the tea break in a thousand years time.
Finally good to see that flat roofs are now the order of the day -- 50 years if a full cycle in architectural terms?
HM: you basically have a monopoly on hub schools. SO: Charge more fees. Spend more time on design. Create better schools. Do us all a favour.
FFS.
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FFS This is a primary School! You could just remove the sign and put up 'Carntyne Sheriff Court' instead.
At least it'd be a better fit.
This unthinking cliched sort of 'approach' completely pisses me off.