St Aloysius College, Clavius Building, Glasgow, designed by Elder and Cannon Architects has won the RIAS Award for Architecture, Best Building in Scotland 2004. The award was presented today, Thursday 28 October, at Point Conference Centre, Edinburgh by Mrs Margaret Doolan, mother of the late Andrew Doolan who, with the RIAS, created the award in 2002.

St Aloysius College Clavius Building was completed in August 2002 as part of the College's progressive expansion and renewal plan. The "Clavius Building" forms the second phase of the College's masterplan, meeting the requirements for a new Maths, Science and Technology Block for the Upper School, providing 25 specialist cla! ssrooms and related facilities and giving the College flexibility to reorganise the existing accommodation.

According to the President of the RIAS, Gordon Murray, "This building is a bold contemporary insertion as an end terrace to tenements in a Conservation Area. The building respects this context but responds to it, creating a dialogue not only with the tenement form but also with the Glasgow School of Art by Mackintosh, its near neighbour. It is an unmistakeably-Glasgow building - big and tough, though full of humanity. It admirably demonstrates how traditional concerns about the integrity of the city can be married to modernist concerns about movement, gathering and an engagement with view and light. That this is done in an urban school is particularly welcome, the daily experience of learning in an environment enriched by the tableaux of a living city."