Glasgow school with designs to inspire the world

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2004 / October 24

A bespoke facility for disabled children is set to put two Scots architects on the map. The buildings of Gordon Murray and Alan Dunlop are revered and reviled in equal measure. They have dramatic set-pieces: sweeping overarching roofs, dazzling metallic finishings and over-sized external screens. Yet one of their most understated designs, for a school for the disabled in Dumbreck on the edge of Glasgow's Bellahouston Park, seems set to push them onto the world stage. GM+AD, Scotland's most controversial practice, has been best known — and occasionally dismissed — as a skilled proponent of sexy commercial architecture expressed with a theatrical flourish: the multi-award-winning SAS Radisson hotel; the redevelopment of Glasgow's Central Station; Bewleys hotel; and the refashioning of a decrepit 1960s office block into the magnificently luminescent aluminium-clad Spectrum House.

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