The Herald

Lottery funding worth almost £350,000 is to be spent preserving the heritage of two of Scotland's most controversial architects. Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan blazed a trail for modernist design in Scotland, creating futuristic churches, schools, and hospitals for a hopeful post-war generation. But since the heyday of the ground-breaking duo, who led the practice of Gillespie, Kidd & Coia from the mid-1950s, many of their designs have been publicly derided and their greatest building, St Peter's College at Cardross, has fallen into ruin. Now the legacy is to be celebrated and preserved in a new exhibition, film, book, and archive restoration, funded by a grant of more than £340,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund. The organisers of the scheme said yesterday that the celebration of perhaps Scotland's greatest post-war architects was long overdue.