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Jul 24, 2020 · Last year, the church described St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, near Helensburgh, as an "albatross around our neck" which it could not give away. The "modernist masterpiece" closed in the...
- St Peter's Seminary: A new life for Scotland's greatest ... - BBC
Illuminated interior of NVA's Hinterland, formerly known as...
- St Peter's Seminary: A new life for Scotland's greatest ... - BBC
St. Peter's Seminary is a former Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll and Bute, Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation Docomomo International as a modern "building of world significance". [1]
Jul 24, 2020 · Last year, the church described St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, near Helensburgh, as an "albatross around our neck" which it could not give away. The "modernist masterpiece" closed in the...
St Peter's Cardross was built to serve as a Roman Catholic Seminary capable of training up to 100 novice priests at any given time. What emerged was built in a modernist, brutalist style that, at best, always sharply divided opinion.
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Diane Watters is an Architectural Historian at Historic Environment Scotland and teaches at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in 19th and 20th century architecture and conservation in Scotl...Angus Farquhar has been Creative Director of Glasgow based NVA – one of the UK’s most noted independent public arts organisations – since its inception in 1992.NVA's mission is to make powerful public art that reaffirms people’s connection to their built and natural heritage. The company has produced many unusual and dynamic interventions in extraordinary landscapes over the last 20 years – light, sound and collective movement have been incorporated into the mountains of Skye, city lighting festivals and ...
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Mar 23, 2016 · Illuminated interior of NVA's Hinterland, formerly known as St Peter's Seminary. Photo by Alaisdair Smith. For 30 years, one of the world’s most architecturally important buildings has...
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Jul 20, 2009 · Discover The Ruins of St. Peter's Seminary in Cardross, Scotland: One of Scotland's most important modern structures, it just made the '100 Most Endangered Sites' list.
