William Robertson Building (Block C), Arts Faculty, University Of Edinburgh, 42 George Square

Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners 1965-1970 (Blyth & Blyth, structural engineers; Crudens, contractors). 4-storey, 6-bay, L-plan, arts faculty building, forming part of university faculty group in Modernist style, set on stepped concrete podium with square-plan single storey lecture theatre inserted into re-entrant angle. Ground rising to N, the level of the podium level merges with that of street on ground rising to N, halfway along George Square to E. Reinforced concrete construction with brick infill. Clad in York stone slabs; boarded ceilings to surrounding portico. Recessed corners at ground floor level creating entrance porches to E (George Square) elevation. Horizontal bands of timber-framed windows wrapped around the building to upper floors. Lecture block has narrow band of glazing just below parapet and a pair of escape doors.

INTERIOR: stairs provide link to other arts faculty buildings at sub-podium level, but no basement of its own. Lecture theatre is sunken and top floor has pair of light wells that double as gardens. Timber joinery and plaster walls throughout.