I stopped off en route to the Highlands to see what remains of St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, as grand a set of ruins as it’s possible to imagine:-
Designed by Isi Metzstein and Andy Macmillan of Gillespie Kidd and Coia in 1961 for 100 students, it was redundant almost from the beginning and closed in 1980.
Over the years, there have been plans to regenerate/restore it, but in its current state of nearly total dereliction, it is hard to imagine and on such a massive scale:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Who knows what could have been done with it. Isi Metzstein was my great friend. There are many fine buildings around which his hand passed over.
Dear Leslie, How fascinating that you knew him so well. I see he only died in 2012. Charles
I met him and his wife Dani in the mid-sixties. Isi was already a name to be conjured with. Dani and I are still friends and I will see her in a few weeks time.
It reminds me of abandoned late Soviet modern buildings I saw in Georgia, quietly crumbling away.