Robert Gordon’s College Aberdeen, Northeast Scotland School Building, Schoolhill Architecture Photos, Date, Architect
Robert Gordons Aberdeen : Architecture
College Building on Schoolhill, Northeast Scotland – Scottish Private Education
post updated 24 June 2023
Dates built: 1731; 1833
Architect: John Smith
Location: north side of city centre, immeditaely east of the art gallery building.
Main frontage to school: photo from 2006 © Adrian Welch
Robert Gordon’s Hospital Building
Robert Gordon’s College is a private co-educational day school in the heart of Aberdeen, Scotland. The school caters for pupils from Nursery through to S6.
Entry to Robert Gordon’s – photo from 2006:
photograph © Adrian Welch
It originally opened in 1750 as the result of a bequest by Robert Gordon, an Aberdeen merchant who made his fortune from trading with Baltic ports, and was known at foundation as Robert Gordon’s Hospital. This was 19 years after Gordon had died and left his estate in a ‘Deed of Mortification’ to fund the foundation of the Hospital.
The fine William Adam-designed building was in fact completed in 1732, but lay empty until 1745 until Gordon’s foundation had sufficient funds to complete the interior. During the Jacobite rising, in 1746 the buildings were commandeered by Hanoverian troops and named Fort Cumberland.
Art Gallery building next door – photo from 2006:
photo © Adrian Welch
Aberdeen Art Gallery Redevelopment Study
Award-winning architects Gareth Hoskins Architects of Glasgow have been chosen to create a design study to ensure Aberdeen Art Gallery is fit for purpose for the 21st century.
Location: Robert Gordon’s, Schoolhill, Aberdeen, northeast Scotland, United Kingdom
Architecture in Aberdeenshire
Aberdeenshire Architecture Designs – chronological list
Buildings close by to Robert Gordon’s Aberdeen:
Bon Accord Centre
Date built: 1989
Design: Jenkins & Marr Architects
photo © Adrian Welch
Bon Accord Centre
Aberdeen City Centre Masterplan
Bon Accord Centre + St Nicholas Centre + St Nicholas House
Masterplan for £200m development aimed at regenerating Aberdeen city centre
Dates: 2004/05-
image from architect
Aberdeen Regeneration: images from HOK Architects
Aberdeen Masterplan
Robert Gordon University – New Buildings
Shortlist of 9 architects for £80m relocation to the Garthdee campus, 2007
Aberdeen Buildings News
Aberdeen City Centre Regeneration
Robert Gordon University Aberdeen : Scott Sutherland School of Architecture
image from architect
Aberdeenshire Building Designs
Aberdeen Architectural Designs
Contemporary Aberdeen Architectural Designs – recent selection from e-architect:
ONE BioHub, Foresterhill Health Campus
Design: BDP
image courtesy of architects practice
ONE BioHub Aberdeen life sciences building
The Event Complex TECA
image courtesy of article provider
The Event Complex Aberdeen, TECA
Union Square by BDP
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