THE ABANDONED ST PETER'S SEMINARY | CARDROSS SCOTLAND

Drone Photograph: Alamy

Tried to get tickets for Hinterland last weekend but it was sold out, the last two days of a run that marked the start of Scotland's Festival Of Architecture 2016. The show was hailed a huge success with lots of great reviews, hence the rush on tickets. 
       
Hinterland was taking place at the abandoned St Peter's Seminary in Cardross, a disused Roman Catholic seminary near Cardross, Argyll & Bute in Scotland. Designed by the firm of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia, it has been described by the international architecture conservation organisation DOCOMOMO as a modern "building of world significance"

 I popped up to Cardross at 6am (my gran lives nearby) & had a wander around the site, or at least what was accessible.

Got in via this bridge...

 

 St Peter's Seminary is due for refurbishment and a rebuild, hopefully starting later this year...

**BONUS GLASGOW BRUTALIST PHOTOS**

Later in the day I went up to Glasgow to spot a few more Modernist / Brutalist architecture examples...

 

CHARLES RENNIE MACKINTOSH | THE HILL HOUSE 1902 - 1904 | ARGYLE & BUTE SCOTLAND

Visited Charles Rennie Mackintosh's 'The Hill House' on a damp March Saturday...

[ via NTS website ] 

High on a hill in Helensburgh, overlooking the River Clyde, sits what is universally regarded as Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s finest domestic creation. The Hill House is a visually arresting mix of Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau, Scottish Baronial and Japonisme architecture and design.

Mackintosh designed nearly everything inside the Hill House too, from the decorative schemes and the furniture to the fittings and contents. His wife, Margaret Macdonald, designed and made many of the textiles as well as a beautiful fireplace panel. Much of the house has been restored so it looks almost exactly as it did in 1904 when its first residents, Glasgow publisher Walter Blackie and his family, moved in.

[ more info here ] 

 

 

 

 

SILVERDALE TO CARNFORTH VIA MORECOMBE BAY | MARCH 2016

Got train to Silverdale then got a bit lost so walked around Morecombe Bay & ended up in Carnforth...