The Scotsman

A five-storey city centre school building carried off the award for the best building in Scotland yesterday - beating the work of one of the world's best-known architects. The 26-classroom science block, built from pre-cast concrete for a private Jesuit school in the heart of Glasgow, won the £25,000 prize from the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS). It is the most valuable architecture award in the UK. Described by the judges as "big, tough, but full of humanity", the Clavius building at St Aloysius Academy was designed by Dick Cannon and John Docherty of the Glasgow firm Elder & Cannon. They saw off a challenge from the Maggie's Cancer Care Centre in Dundee, with its striking white tower that overlooks the Firth of Tay. It is the only British work by the US architect Frank Gehry, famous worldwide as the designer of the Guggenheim Bilbao and of Disney Hall in Los Angeles.