Project Updates: St Peter's Seminary

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Just a couple from my first time at the place, It is such a shame to see it in the state it is now. This place still
could have so many uses for it but also nice to see it as it is..











More to come at some point.

[train driver]

I remember visiting the old college in 1985/6, when most of the building was still intact except for all the windows being smashed, all the rooms/cells still had their doors on & the alter was intact. its a real shame that the building is now in this sorry state.

also sorry to hear about kilmahew house being burned down, it was a grand old house,
i stayed there when a family member was getting drug treatment.



on a side note.

Balloch, its one of the lines that i still work & to tell you the truth, it is full of jakies, junkys & neds, & when the suns shining, most of the jakies, junkys & neds from drumchapel, clydebank, dalmuir, dumbarton & renton skip the train en mass with their bottles of bucky & go doon to the water.

[Mori]

Herald

1960s landmark to be preserved as ruin in arts group’s new plan

8 Nov 2010



A Glasgow arts company has unveiled plans to preserve one of Scotland’s most important architectural landmarks as a “living ruin”.
The A-listed building, St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, was named as one of the world’s most endangered sites by the World Monument Fund. It was completed in 1966 but closed in 1980, and has lain abandoned and vandalised for 25 years.
NVA – an organisation which has been involved in a string of outdoors arts projects – wants to scrap plans for it to be revamped as a hotel or apartments.
Instead it will remain largely ruined for a new role. NVA says it will “accept the building in its current” state, before adding functions and facilities to the building in an intensive design process over two or three years, while re-vitalising its extensive grounds.
The organisation will this month represent Scotland at the world’s leading architectural festival in Venice, La Biennale di Venezia’s International Architecture Exhibition, where it will focus on plans for St Peter’s...continues

[Josef]

The altar.

[Dexter St. Clair]

Slideshow

[scaryman2u]

Demolish it!

[Lucky Poet]

No, I won't. It'd take me ages.

[Bankie Boy]

Demolish it!

I agree. It is beyond restoration and is now just a dangerous eye sore. Its time to pull it down.

[Josef]

Demolish it!

I agree. It is beyond restoration and is now just a dangerous eye sore. Its time to pull it down.

Given that, in order to see it, you'd have to have set out specifically to see it in the first place, I don't think 'eyesore' is appropriate.

It always makes me think of King Louis's ruined temple in the Jungle Book film.

NWA have the right idea. Stabilise it as a ruin. As most people who have been there will probably be aware, people come from all over the world to visit, and photograph the place.

[mrsam]

Demolish it!

I agree. It is beyond restoration and is now just a dangerous eye sore. Its time to pull it down.

Given that, in order to see it, you'd have to have set out specifically to see it in the first place, I don't think 'eyesore' is appropriate.

It always makes me think of King Louis's ruined temple in the Jungle Book film.

NWA have the right idea. Stabilise it as a ruin. As most people who have been there will probably be aware, people come from all over the world to visit, and photograph the place.

#Now don't try to kid me man cub,
Come on clue me what to do...#

Don't demolish it, stabilise it as a ruin and charge ubex-ers £5.00 to wander round and take happy snaps

Mr Sam (Yeah Man)

[Mori]

Am Gone man,Solid Gone !

[Late to the Party]

Was out there this evening and it was in a much worse state of decreptitude (ok, so I made that word up) than all the photos I'd seen of it. I was with a friend that was there a few years ago and she said it had gone downhill a long way in the last couple of years. There is indeed a notice on the gate with a demolition label on it.... Seems a shame, even though I find it hard to imagine anyone restoring it now.

[Vinegar Tom]

The demolition notice has been oversprayed with graffiti. I think it might proceed incrementally anyway, as that would require no change from what is happening now.


St Peter's by vinegartom40, on Flickr


St Peter's by vinegartom40, on Flickr


St Peter's by vinegartom40, on Flickr

Anyway

[kirstymaclaren]

http://m.stv.tv/news/scotland/west-cent ... alisation/

[HollowHorn]

"A new form of generative public art that develops work from a long term creative dialogue with the users and radically accepts the value of the building in its current form expanding an ’unfinished’ narrative that will change over time."

Ah, I get it now .............Emdy care to elaborate on what the fuck this statement actualy means?