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Tuesday 7 September 2010
Albyn Submits Plans For New Building Developments
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010 at 7:20 pm
Last week Albyn School submitted plans to Aberdeen City Council for changes across its campus. The proposed plans designed by Archial Architects Ltd, will involve improving the frontage onto Queen’s Road by enhancing the links between the buildings and improving the existing front entrance with a structural glass screen. The non-traditional links and entrance way, will be replaced by contemporary glass linkages that preserve the classic granite buildings which give both character and heritage to the School.
Behind the Queen’s Road buildings, and in an effort to meet the needs of the youngest members of the Albyn community, the School’s two nurseries will be brought together onto one site. This serves to free up more playground space for the youngest children. For the senior pupils, three additional laboratories and a classroom block are being created to allow the teaching of a greater range of science, technological and arts subjects. The School achieved the best Higher results in the city of Aberdeen in 2009 and is keen to ensure that in the years to come, its facilities match its academic performance
The Headmaster, Dr Long commented. ‘I have been keen to preserve that sense of the city’s heritage that is inherent in the Queen’s Road buildings and I am really pleased that the west end of Aberdeen still has room for schools as well as offices. We want to deliver science, technology and the arts to our pupils in an appropriate environment but recognise that as the School changes we have to be sensitive to the life and work of our residential and commercial neighbours. I am very keen that we do not make their lives more difficult and are soon to launch schemes to take some of our school-run traffic off the local roads.”
