Castlebrae Business Park

Here’s the Castlebrae Business Park in Craigmiller, Edinburgh, blipped this morning.

Built as Niddrie Marischal Intermediate School in 1936, the competition-winning design by architects Reid & Forbes used Art-Deco detailing on the tower. The design is said to have been influenced by American Indian motifs used by renowned architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

The Category B listed, H-plan school, was built to ‘open air’ principles. It had north and south facing classroom blocks to aid air flow, and massive horizontal windows maximising daylight.
Following the school closing in the 1980’s, the building was turned into a business centre, being refurbished around 2016.
It’s great to see a number Art Deco gems being saved, sympathetically.

Have a good Sunday all.