Adam Ferguson (Block D), Arts Faculty, University Of Edinburgh, 36 George Square

Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners 1965-1967 (Blyth & Blyth, structural engineers; Crudens, contractors). 4-storey and basement, rectangular-plan, linear arts faculty building, forming part of university faculty group in Modernist style, set on stepped concrete podium; 2 projecting wings to S at sub-podium level. Reinforced concrete construction with brick infill. York stone slab cladding, roughcast render to sub-podium frontages onto Buccleuch Place. Boarded ceilings to shallow loggia surrounding the building.

N (GEORGE SQUARE) ELEVATION: 9 structural bays; pilotis supporting overhanging upper floors. Ground floor wall mostly blind but for narrow strip of glazing above head height; porches at each end. Recessed main entrance, off-centre left elevation with storey-high fixed windows and glazed doors in timber frame. Horizontal bands of timber-framed windows wrapped around the building to upper floors. S ELEVATION: large ground floor windows in horizontal timber frame and 2 ashlar base courses. Basement level windows opening onto garden court; sub-podium wings contain doors onto Buccleuch Place.

INTERIOR: ground floor circulation through centre of building with door at each end; classrooms to S; lavatories to N. Pair of linked corridors running the length of the building to upper floors with staff offices off corridors. Demountable storage walls, intended to facilitate flexible office arrangement; departments arranged vertically. Painted timber joinery and plaster walls throughout. Internal ramp to sub-podium level gives access to refectory and other faculty buildings. Part of the basement is given over to underground car park.