Comments on: Notre Dame College of Education – Gillespie Kidd & Coia, Bearsden

By: Josie

Josie — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 12:33:02 +0000

I was unfortunate enough to be a resident in one of these buildings in the mid 90’s. They were horrible, dark, damp, cold and depressing buildings. Still the despite that, I’m still sad to see them all boarded up.
The weird design did have it’s plus points, if you were on the fourth floor like me, you could use the roof of the room below you as your own private sunbathing spot in the summer, but you had to stay close into the window or the warden would catch you..

By: Lucretia Mott

Lucretia Mott — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 21:27:42 +0000

Why is Habitat 67 in Montreal preserved when this is binned? I can’t entirely hate the thing, in spite of myself; it’s mad enough to be charming. Check out the Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo, too. Uuuurggghh…..sometimes you think, “Just paint the f*cker”, at others, “Give the evil c*nt who demolished our heritage a taste of its own medecine…”

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:07:27 +0000

Yep, the buildings above are still there as of yesterday.

By: Corvus

Corvus — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 11:43:51 +0000

I don't know how they looked on the inside, but the outside view reminds me a lot of a holocaust memorial site if you know what I mean. They built something similar here

By: Fr. Dougal Maguire, Craggy Island

Fr. Dougal Maguire, Craggy Island — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 18:06:15 +0000

Ted! You should see this mad priest housing they’ve built in Glasgow. Do you think that’s where they send priests who’ve done something reeeally bad? Ted? I’m frightened! Ted! Down with this sort of thing!(Well, can I at least take the old rollerblades then?)

By: alex splode

alex splode — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:13:17 +0000

Sorry Mr McMillan. Excellent facilities with maple flooring and oregon pine finishes are just not enough.

By: Capability Bowes

Capability Bowes — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:27:15 +0000

Oh purleas! did the architect not realise that rainwater doesnt run off a flat roof? And that all flat roofs eventually leak? and that it rains a heck of a lot in Scotland????? This building deserves to die!

By: Tommy T

Tommy T — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 13:06:39 +0000

Those buildings shown in the pic are STILL there, so WHAT IS THE FUSS ABOUT???
I think, correct me if I am wrong, you are talking about the main college building and not the hall of residence per the pic. Get your facts correct.
I like the GKC style but have to admit they have been built with uttermost lack of understanding of the Scottish climate: wafer thin single leaf concrete walls, steel frame windows, cheap DPM (or lack of it), fragile flat roof with no falls and “inventive” external materials that does not even last for a single winter season before 10 times more of its capital cost need to be poured in to maintain them. And they are all GREY!! How apt for the grey Scottish winter! Long live the ideaology of GKC – but better in sunny south of France and not in baltic Scotland!

By: Levenax

Levenax — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 11:19:41 +0000

Notre Dame in Bearsden was a truly grotesque pile of concrete blocks. No imagination or sense of form were apparent in its childishly boxy appearance and it should have been demolished years ago. Its architects are responsible for many other abominations in Scotland that are either falling down of their own accord or deserve speedy deomolition.

By: David Rosemont

David Rosemont — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 10:59:22 +0000

Not so much Burnham Woods as Cumbernauld Town Centre is on the march! I admit to doing a project not disimilar at the AA in ‘63. Long live Corb!