Pavilion

Clearly influenced by Mendelsohn and Chermayeff’s De La Warr Pavilion at Bexhill, this competition-winning design by James Carrick is the best of its kind in Scotland. A rectangular auditorium, clad in stone, forms the main bulk of the building with a massive glazed semi-circular cafe projecting forward of the first floor like the bow of an ocean liner. Above is a roof terrace with a sweeping canopy. Within, there is a grand staircase. Such advanced architecture offered the pre-war Glasgow holidaymaker an experience at the forefront of the moderne style. Regrettably, the building was, for some time, unappreciated. In 2015 repair work began to stabilise the stonework ahead of redevelopment in 2016.