King's College Sports Pavilion, University Road, Old Aberdeen, Aberdeen

The King's College Sports Pavilion, located on University Road in Old Aberdeen, was designed by Alexander George Robertson Mackenzie of A Marshall Mackenzie & Son and built between 1939 and 1941. This two-storey, seven-bay sports pavilion features a roughly square plan and a symmetrical Modern design, facing the playing fields to the east. The building has a three-bay center that breaks the wallhead, with paired, dog-leg concrete stairs leading to a shared landing and a continuous cantilevered balcony that wraps around to the side elevations.

Constructed with a steel frame and brick infill, the pavilion is finished with cement render, squared and snecked granite on the south and west elevations with tooled dressings, and coursed and squared granite on the north elevation, which houses the squash courts. A cill course is present at the ground floor, and the bays are separated by plain square pilasters. The ground floor features multi-pane horizontal windows, while the first floor has full-height glazing above a plain stallriser. The principal elevation includes a coved cantilevered cornice that is wider over the center bays. The staircase is flanked by entrances.

The interior, as seen in 2012, retains a largely unaltered plan, with a swimming pool at the ground floor surrounded by enclosed changing rooms. The first floor includes a former café overlooking the pool to the east, former squash courts to the north, and a private dwelling to the south. The swimming pool area features glazed square tiling to the dado, an opaque glazed brick strip, plastered walls above, and curved openings to the changing rooms, along with a concrete balcony on the first floor. Some original timber cubicles remain in the changing rooms, as well as glazed and timber doors with original door furniture.

The pavilion has non-original glazing and a flat felt roof, but it retains predominantly original painted metal rainwater goods, including dated hoppers.