Music Practice And Teaching Rooms, Glenalmond College

Basil Spence and Partners, 1963 (Peter Ferguson, partner-in-charge and principal architect; Richard Cassidy; T Harley Haddow & Partners, engineers). Single-storey Modernist music department block consisting of tall roughly square-plan orchestral hall at N adjoined to 7-bay, rectangular-plan teaching room block running N-S; part of multi-period school campus. Black brick basecourse (stepped to E elevation), painted brick in stretcher bond with saw tooth brickwork panel between windows, rendered to orchestral hall. Oversailing flat roof with painted fascia and timber boarding to eaves. Full-height glazing separated by deep rectangular timber mullions to E elevation and central section of W elevation of orchestral hall block; predominantly flat arched openings with metal-framed windows; slate cills.

FURTHER DESCRIPTION: 2-leaf timber and glazed doors to N elevation, with wide full-height glazed sidelight to right. Glazed clearstorey to N and S elevations of orchestral hall with deep laminated redwood beams roof structure extended to exterior to create mullions. Brickwork taken above roofline to S elevation, with cut out at centre with roof oversailing to form square cantitlevered canopy above 2-leaf, timber and glazed doors entrance doors.

Predominantly original fixed-pane window with top-hung hopper.

INTERIOR (seen 2008): quarry tiled floor to entrance vestibule, full-height glazing with timber mullions separating entrance corridor from orchestral hall. Orchestral hall with deep laminated redwood beams, cedar boarding ceiling, projecting brick patterns to walls and timber floor. 10 practice rooms with non-parallel brick walls. Timber doors with original fixtures to orchestral hall.