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The new headquarters building for Scottish Ballet replaces a derelict section of the Tramway arts centre on the southside of Glasgow. The brief for the building comprises three distinct areas — large technical workshops at ground floor, administration, wardrobe and music departments on the first floor, with three large rehearsal studios situated at the very top of the building. A large concrete stair connects Tramway's existing foyer up to a new wood lined social space at the heart of Scottish Ballet's building.

 

 

All the rehearsal studios have been designed as naturally ventilated spaces, reducing running costs and carbon emissions. Studio one is located at the centre of the plan with nine truncated pyramid skylights, designed to maximize levels of natural light. Studios two and three offer views onto Pollokshaws Road. Externally, the building will use a textured, pigmented concrete cladding panel at ground level to cope with the robustness of the day-to-day life of the street. Above this, the building will be clad in a profiled anodised aluminium sheet, which will have varying profiles and colour, intended to achieve subtle layering
that will give proportion and scale to the building.