New Buildings

This is a picture of the secondary school my kid's went to - Belmont Academy built in 1960



and this is a picture of the replacement school currently being built in the playing fields and due for completion in summer 2008.



It's probably just me, but does anyone else think that schools are deliberately being built with a very limited shelf life?

My old school building is over 100 years old and still going strong without too many internal adaptations.

Old building - new use

This conversion is in St Leonards Road in Ayr. It was a school (still trying to find out when built, name, etc....), then Council Offices and then redeveloped.

Luckily rather than tearing it down and building modern, undistinguished buildings, they left the shell of the building intact and rebuilt internally.

I think the end result gives private housing which has character.