Architect raps 'ill-designed' new schools - Scottish Architecture News

The Scotsman

New schools in Scotland are badly designed and need to be dramatically improved, an award-winning architect has warned. Paul Stallan, who last month was named a "schools champion" by the Scottish Government, is due to tell Holyrood's education committee today that many of the new schools built since 1999 are poor or mediocre. The committee is taking evidence on the school estate in Scotland to look at how it can be improved. Mr Stallan is representing Architecture + Design Scotland (A+DS), an organisation which seeks to promote good design in new buildings. He will quote an A+DS study of 26 planned school projects between 2005 and 2007 and 28 secondary schools completed between January 1999 and October 2003. Although the study found some excellent new schools, including Hazelwood Special School in Glasgow, it concluded that most were below par.

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