DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments

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DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments is a list compiled in 1993 by the international architectural conservation organisation DoCoMoMo.

The buildings date from the period 1945-1970, and were selected by a panel as being significant examples of architectural style, building materials and location.

The purpose was in part to raise the profile of post-war architecture and introduce some of these buildings as 'heritage'. The predominant view of many modernist buildings in particular was not favourable in the UK at the time. An exhibition accompanied the list. Not all the buildings have survived: two of the most prominent casualties have been Basil Spence's Hutchesontown C complex in Glasgow, demolished in 1993, and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St. Peter's Seminary in Cardross, currently derelict.

Anderston Cross Industrial Zone, Glasgow Andrew Melville Hall of Residence, St. Andrew's University Arts Tower and Faculty Building, University of Dundee Avisfield, Edinburgh Bernat Klein House, Scottish Borders Chessels Court redevelopment, Edinburgh Crathie Drive Development, Glasgow Cumbernauld New Town original housing areas Cumbernauld Town Centre Phase 1[1] Dollan Baths, East Kilbride Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment, Highland Dysart redevelopment (Phases 1-3), Fife Eaglais Mathair nan Dorainn, Gearraidh na Monadh, Uibhist a' Deas Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, Ward Unit and Operating Theatre Suite, Falkirk Fishermen's Houses, Dunbar, East Lothian Forth Road Bridge and Control Building Gallowgate redevelopment, Aberdeen Glasgow Inner Ring Road, North and West Flanks Glasgow University Library and Hunterian Art Gallery Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen Heddell's Park and Annsbrae Housing Scheme, Lerwick, Shetland Heron House, Glasgow Hunterston 'A' Nuclear Power Station, North Ayrshire Hutchesontown Area 'C', Glasgow[2] Kildrum Primary School, Cumbernauld Kincardine Power Station, Fife Kirkcaldy Town House, Fife Lanark County Buildings, Hamilton Leith Fort development, Edinburgh

Loch Awe Hydro-Electric Project (Cruachan Section) Lourdes Secondary School, Glasgow Meadowside Granary Extension, Glasgow Monktonhall Colliery[3] Moredun temporary housing area, Edinburgh Mortonhall Crematorium, Edinburgh National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh New Club, Edinburgh Notre Dame High School, Glasgow Paisley Civic Centre Pathfoot Building, Stirling University Plant Houses, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh Pollock Halls of Residence, Edinburgh Ravenscraig Steelworks, Motherwell[4] Red Road development, Glasgow[5] Robert the Bruce statue and rotunda, Bannockburn, Stirling Royal Commonwealth Pool, Edinburgh St. Bride's Church, East Kilbride St. Lawrence's Church, Greenock St. Paul's Church, Glenrothes, Fife St. Peter's College, Cardross, Argyll and Bute[6] St. Peter's Street redevelopment, Peterhead St. Teresa's Church, Glasgow Scottish Provident Institution, Edinburgh Sighthill Health Centre, Edinburgh Smithycroft Road Secondary School, Glasgow Stow College, Glasgow Turnhouse Airport Terminal, Edinburgh Airport University of Edinburgh redevelopment Transplantation Surgery Unit, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Vale of Leven Hospital, Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire

[edit] Current Status

1. ^ Partly demolished
2. ^ Demolished
3. ^ Demolished
4. ^ Demolished
5. ^ Partly demolished
6. ^ Derelict

[edit] Further Reading

• Rebuilding Scotland (1997) edited by Miles Glendinning, Tuckwell Press.

[edit] See also=

• Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings