Music Practice And Teaching Rooms, Glenalmond College

The Music Practice and Teaching Rooms at Glenalmond College, designed by Basil Spence and Partners in 1963, is a single-storey Modernist building that serves as a music department. It features a tall, roughly square orchestral hall at the northern end, connected to a seven-bay, rectangular teaching room block that runs north to south. This building is part of a multi-period school campus.

The exterior includes a black brick basecourse that is stepped on the eastern elevation, with painted brick in stretcher bond and a saw tooth brickwork panel between the windows. The orchestral hall is rendered, and the building has an oversailing flat roof with a painted fascia and timber boarding at the eaves. The eastern elevation and the central section of the western elevation of the orchestral hall are characterized by full-height glazing separated by deep rectangular timber mullions. The windows are predominantly flat arched openings with metal frames and slate cills.

The northern elevation features two-leaf timber and glazed doors, accompanied by a wide full-height glazed sidelight to the right. There are glazed clearstoreys on the northern and southern elevations of the orchestral hall, with deep laminated redwood beams extending to the exterior to create mullions. The brickwork rises above the roofline on the southern elevation, with a cut-out at the center and a roof that oversails to form a square cantilevered canopy above the entrance doors.

Inside, as seen in 2008, the entrance vestibule has a quarry tiled floor and full-height glazing with timber mullions that separate the entrance corridor from the orchestral hall. The orchestral hall features deep laminated redwood beams, a ceiling of cedar boarding, projecting brick patterns on the walls, and a timber floor. There are ten practice rooms with non-parallel brick walls, and the orchestral hall has timber doors with original fixtures.