Continuing the drone experience.

[Allen McL]

As some will know, I've been flying my drone about recently in hot pursuit of the Azamara cruise liners as they arrive in Glasgow for storage. Yesterday I took a spin up to Cardross to have a flight round the infamous former St Peter's Seminary building, lying in an increasingly ruinous state since it's closure in the early 80's. After almost forty years of neglect, arson, vandalism, failed restoration projects and the effects of mother nature, it now looks ready to be put out of its misery.

A once spectacular 'Brutalist' design based on the principles of Le Corbusier and designed by a pair of celebrated Glasgow based architects, Andy Macmillan and Izi Metstein. If anyone remembers an architecture based STV television series back in the 90's called 'Six Scottish Burghs, Andy was the writer/presenter and by that time also a professor of architecture within Glasgow School of Art.

The building shares visual similarities with Basil Spence's GLA terminal of the same era. I couldn't help but wonder as I flew overhead if one day GLA's terminal might meet with a similar circumstance and be left trapped in a limbo of delapidation and pointless life support ? Buy hey, that's a long time away... yeah ?

Please also enjoy this short film I found on You Tube showing the seminary operating in it's all but brief heyday. It's an interesting comparison.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jV4LqzDcE-I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5K8d2n1j-ak