Architecture

Most buildings are designed by architects including the new homes, offices and public buildings that are springing up along the Clyde.

The main Clyde Waterfront website provides details of recent, current and proposed buildings on the waterfront and many of the project detail pages will include information about the architects involved.

Links to architecture websites including most of the architects working in the area have been included as resources. There is also some information on architects who designed waterfront buildings in the past including links to listed building records.

Lesson/project ideas (search all lesson/project ideas)

Title	Short description	Related curricular areas	Age group
Building design	Design a two point perspective building for an exhibition influenced by architecture along the Clyde waterfront such as ship building, Glasgow Science Centre, SECC land fill, listed buildings, etc.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Clyde-inspired jewellery design and manufacture	Develop knowledge and understanding of 3-dimensional designs by making jewellery based on structures on the Clyde waterfront.	Expressive Arts, Technologies	Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary
Create a Clyde development plan	Design an original facility/building in teams, to create, as a class, a new Clyde development project to participate in a presentation to a panel of experts.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Create a new Clyde skyline	In teams, pupils will create a new Clyde waterfront skyline by each designing a tall building as part of the project which will be presented to developer and planner.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Design a Clyde waterfront building	Design a new building structure, or extend or improve an existing one, as part of the regeneration of the Clyde and which fits in with the existing architecture.	Expressive Arts, Technologies	Upper Primary
Design a crash safety suit	Competition to design and make a protective crash suit for a freefalling egg using k/u of ‘structures and materials’.	Mathematics, Science, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Design a house	Applying knowledge and understanding of subject topic of Geometry and Finance in a project to design a house.	Expressive Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Design the new Transport Museum	Pupils work in groups and with ambassadors to create their own design for the new Transport Museum to be built on the Clyde as part of the regeneration process.	Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Technologies	Upper Primary, Lower Secondary
Exhibition of buildings for the 21st century	Pupils will critically evaluate new Clyde building designs and compare and contrast with buildings in their local community to produce a display/exhibition of their work on River Clyde buildings.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies	Upper Primary
Finnieston Crane maze puzzles	Problem solving by designing maze puzzles replicating structure of Finnieston Crane, whilst reaffirming knowledge of adding whole numbers, decimals, negative numbers and algebraic terms.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Graphic communication	Use one point perspective and colour theory to design the frontage of a new museum or venue based on a culture theme and set up an exhibition of work for art college and architect students and teachers to review and feedback.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Graphic design inspired by the architecture of Glasgow	Pupils will work to a design brief, developing knowledge and understanding of the graphic design process, by designing an invitation for The Lighthouse, based on architecture on the Clyde waterfront.	Expressive Arts, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Making connections - structures	Making a media rack to meet a design brief from a manufacturer, transferring knowledge and understanding from architecture and nature into a design idea and presenting back to business.	Expressive Arts, Mathematics, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Models of structures	Research, design and make models of the ‘Clydebank Titan’ giant cantilever crane to present K’nex models to an audience of peers, community and business in this industry.	Expressive Arts, Mathematics, Science, Social Studies, Technologies	Upper Primary
Regeneration and education	Investigating what makes an ideal school; pupils will go through the planning process for this and be assessed through a presentation to peers.	Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Tall structures	Young people will compete in teams as architect companies, to win a contract to design a new tower within a given timescale and restrained by budget and available materials.	Expressive Arts, Technologies	Lower Secondary
Waterfall design	Project to design and create a waterfall with accompanying information sheet based on learning about structures on a river. Present to a group of experts (landscape designers) for feedback on design.	Expressive Arts, Science, Social Studies, Technologies	Lower Secondary