Music School, George Watson's College, Edinburgh is a Grade B listed building in the City of Edinburgh local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 30 March 1993. Music school.
Music School, George Watson's College, Edinburgh
- WRENN ID
- lone-cornice-sedge
- Grade
- B
- Local Planning Authority
- City of Edinburgh
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1993
- Type
- Music school
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
Michael Laird, 1962. Single storey music school with taller auditorium with hyperbolic paraboloid roof. Cream ashlar, some rear walls rendered.
E ELEVATION: entrance block with narrow single and bipartite windows to right, glazed portico abutting to outer right. Single storey link with main auditorium to centre with 6 large full-height glazed openings. Diamond-shaped auditorium to outer left with saddle-shaped hyperbolic paraboloid roof with glazed clerestorey area.
W ELEVATION: library-teaching room to outer left rising to fully glazed 2 storeys. Single storey link with auditorium to centre as above. Auditorium as above to outer right. Fixed windows with hardwood frames. Aluminium patent glazing to link section, auditorium roof of timber covered with aluminium.
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