PAISLEY: “AN EXAMPLE OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE"



The first prize of £1,500 in the competition for new buildings for the Paisley Technical College, for which over 500 [corrected as 135 in 9th May 1957 issue, p. 700] architects entered, has been awarded to Alison and Hutchison and Partners, Edinburgh. The second and third prizes, totalling £1,500, will be shared by three competitors: G. P. Hutchinson, K. H. Murta and J. B. Hall, Sunderland; James Cubitt and Partners, London; Claus Seligmann, London, in association with J. Warren Chalk and Ronald Herron, students. The assessor was Professor R. Gardner-Medwin, assisted by T. A. Jeffryes, Chief Architect and Chief Technical Planner to the Department of Health for Scotland, and Robert Morton, Deputy Chief Architect and Technical Planner. In his report the assessor said of the first prize-winning project: “The design of this project is quite outstanding. If the building and landscaping can be carried out in the spirit of this design, Paisley will have an example of modern architecture and town planning which visitors may travel many miles to see.” The recommendations for the award of the second and third prizes was, the assessor said, much more difficult: there were, however, “three designs, very different in their approach but each equally skilful and imaginative in their own way,” which he considered were worthy of sharing equally the second and third prizes. The assessor will later make a fuller report, in which he will refer to several other schemes which he found worthy of mention. The Governors of the college have decided to proceed with the winning design.



Architects' Journal, 2nd May 1957, p. 652, pp. 659-665