DoCoMoMo Key Scottish Monuments is a list of 60 notable post-war buildings in Scotland, compiled in 1993 by the international architectural conservation organisation DoCoMoMo.

The buildings date from the period 1945–1970, and were selected by a panel as being significant examples of architectural style, building materials and location. The purpose was in part to raise the profile of post-war architecture, and to "demonstrate that architecture, as an art, flourished during those years".Glendinning (ed.), p.153 The list was the basis for an exhibition at the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland, aimed at introducing some of these buildings as "heritage". The predominant view of post-war architecture, and of many modernist buildings in particular, was not favourable in the UK at the time, and the list was intended to inform the statutory listing of significant works. Some of the buildings, for example Notre Dame High School, had already been listed by Historic Scotland before the DoCoMoMo list was compiled, and several more have been designated since, including several at Category A, as "buildings of national or international importance".

The list includes a wide range of structures, from large industrial plants, to small private houses, and covers the diversity of building types that were constructed during the period. Not all the buildings have survived: two of the most prominent casualties have been Basil Spence's Hutchesontown C complex in Glasgow, demolished in 1993, and Gillespie, Kidd & Coia's St. Peter's Seminary in Cardross, which has been derelict since the late 1980s.

List

Building Location Date Architect Notes Anderston Centre Industrial Zone Glasgow 1969 Jack Holmes and Partners Andrew Melville Hall of Residence, University of St Andrews St Andrews 1967 James Stirling Category A listed Arts Tower and Faculty Building, University of Dundee Dundee 1961 Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners Category B listed Avisfield Cramond, Edinburgh 1957 Morris and Steedman Category B listed Bernat Klein House and Studio Scottish Borders 1957 (house) 1972 (studio) Peter Womersley Both buildings Category A listed Chessel's Court redevelopment Royal Mile, Edinburgh 1966 Robert Hurd Category A/B listed Crathie Drive Development Glasgow 1952 Ronald Bradbury Cruachan Power Station Loch Awe, Argyll and Bute 1965 J Williamson (engineer) Cumbernauld New Town original housing areas (Kildrum, Park, Carbrain, Ravenswood, Seafar, Muirhead) North Lanarkshire 1974 Cumbernauld Development Corporation and others Cumbernauld Town Centre Phase 1 Cumbernauld 1967 Geoffrey Copcutt Partly demolished Dollan Baths East Kilbride 1968 A Buchanan Campbell Category A listed Dounreay Experimental Research Establishment Highland 1958 R S Brocklesby Currently being decommissioned Dysart redevelopment (Phases 1–3) Fife 1971 Wheeler and Sproson Eaglais Mathair nan Dorainn (Church of Our Lady of Sorrows) Gearraidh na Monadh, South Uist 1965 Richard J McCarron Category B listed Falkirk and District Royal Infirmary, Ward Unit and Operating Theatre Suite Falkirk 1966 Keppie, Henderson and Partners Fishermen's Houses Dunbar, East Lothian 1952 Basil Spence Forth Road Bridge and Control Building Firth of Forth 1964 Sir Giles Scott, Son and Partners, with Mott, Hay and Anderson (engineers) Category A listed Gallowgate redevelopment Aberdeen 1966 G McI Keith, City Architect Glasgow Inner Ring Road, North and West Flanks Glasgow 1971 Scott Wilson Kilpatrick (engineers), W Holford Now part of the M8 motorway Glasgow University Library and Hunterian Art Gallery Glasgow 1965 William Whitfield Gray's School of Art Aberdeen 1968 D Michael A Shewan Heddell's Park and Annsbrae Housing Scheme Lerwick, Shetland 1959 Richard Moira and B L C Moira Heron House Glasgow 1971 Derek Stephenson and Partners Converted into The Pinnacle residential building in 2001 Hunterston A nuclear power station North Ayrshire 1964 General Electric Company / Simon-Carves Ltd (design consortium) / Howard V Lobb and Partners (consulting architects) Hutchesontown Area 'C' Gorbals, Glasgow 1966 Basil Spence Demolished 12 September 1993 Kildrum Primary School Cumbernauld 1962 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia fire-damaged and subsequently demolished Kincardine Power Station Kincardine-on-Forth, Fife 1963 Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners Demolished Kirkcaldy Town House Kirkcaldy, Fife 1956 David Carr Category B listed, designed in the 1930s but not built until after WW2 Lanark County Buildings (now South Lanarkshire Council Headquarters) Hamilton 1964 D G Bannerman Category A listed Leith Fort development Leith, Edinburgh 1966 Shaw-Stewart, Baikie and Perry Demolished 2012–2013 Lourdes Secondary School Glasgow 1957 Thomas Cordiner Meadowside Granary Extension Glasgow 1967 Clyde Navigation Trust / L G Mouchel and Partners Demolished Monktonhall Colliery Newcraighall, East Lothian 1965 Egon Riss Demolished Moredun temporary housing area Moredun, Edinburgh 1949 J A W Grant / City Architect / Sam Bunton Mortonhall Crematorium Mortonhall, Edinburgh 1967 Basil Spence Category A listed National Library of Scotland Edinburgh 1955 Reginald Fairlie Category A listed, construction began in the 1930s, but not completed until after WW2 New Club Princes Street, Edinburgh 1969 Alan Reiach Category A listed Notre Dame High School Glasgow 1953 Thomas Cordiner Category A listed, designed before the war Paisley Civic Centre Paisley, Renfrewshire 1971 Hutchison Locke and Monck Pathfoot Building, University of Stirling Stirling 1967 Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners Category A listed Plant Houses, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 1967 George Pearce Category A listed Pollock Halls of Residence Edinburgh 1959 Rowand Anderson, Kininmonth and Paul Category A listed Ravenscraig steelworks Motherwell 1957 Colvilles/British Steel Corporation Demolished 1993 Red Road development Glasgow 1969 Sam Bunton and Associates Demolished 2015 Robert the Bruce statue and rotunda Bannockburn, Stirling 1964 Charles d'Orville Pilkington Jackson (sculptor) Category A listed Royal Commonwealth Pool Edinburgh 1970 Robert Matthew, Johnson-Marshall and Partners Category A listed St. Bride's Church East Kilbride 1964 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia Category A listed, campanile demolished 1987 St. Lawrence's Church Greenock 1954 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia Category A listed St. Paul's Church Glenrothes, Fife 1957 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia Category A listed St. Peter's College Cardross, Argyll and Bute 1966 Gillespie, Kidd & Coia Category A listed, currently derelict St. Peter's Street redevelopment Peterhead, Aberdeenshire 1971 Baxter, Clark and Paul Demolished St. Teresa's Church Glasgow 1960 Alexander McAnally and Partners Category B listed Scottish Provident Institution St Andrew Square, Edinburgh 1969 Rowand Anderson, Kininmonth and Paul Demolished in July 2014 Sighthill Health Centre Sighthill, Edinburgh 1953 Robert Gardner-Medwin Smithycroft Road Secondary School Glasgow 1967 A G Jury Demolished Stow College of Building and Printing and Stow College of Distributive Trades Glasgow 1964 Wylie, Shanks and Underwood Both Category B listed Turnhouse Airport Terminal Edinburgh Airport 1956 Robert Matthew Demolished in 1995 University of Edinburgh redevelopment George Square, Edinburgh 1967 Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall, Basil Spence, Glover and Ferguson, and Reiach, Hall and Partners Transplantation Surgery Unit, Western General Hospital Edinburgh 1963 Peter Womersley Vale of Leven Hospital Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire 1955 Keppie, Henderson and Partners

References

See also Prospect 100 best modern Scottish buildings

External links – Map of DoCoMoMo 60 Scottish Key Monuments (on Google Maps)