Kilmahew/St Peters

ERZ Limited

The project represents a fresh response to the longstanding challenge of securing a viable future for the derelict modernist masterpiece of St Peter’s Seminary, set within the 133 acre Kilmahew Estate landscape in Cardross, registered as one of the World Monument Fund’s most endangered cultural landmarks. Instead of focusing exclusively on the building, it considers this remarkable building and its landscape setting together, creating a public landscape that becomes a locus for an ongoing creative process, with the ongoing creative and educational programme realised through the ‘Invisible College’. In this way the landscape leads the regeneraton. The aim is, in every possible respect, to shift people’s relationship to the landscape from one of being a passive observer or detached consumer to having an active physical or intellectual engagement.

Overview

Location

Location 

Cardross

Category

Strategic landscape planning

Landscape Architect

ERZ Limited

Client

NVA

Brief

To develop a masterplan for the site of an ambitious project to transform St Peters Seminary in Cardross, 25 miles of Glasgow, and the surrounding Kilmahew Woodlands into the Invisible College, a place for learning, public art and sharing new knowledge.

Awards

Cardross

Details

Project Team

Landscape architect: erz. |Architect for regeneration of buildings: Avanti Architects. |Overall project cost plan: Armour Construction Consultants. | Advice on transportation and site infrastructure: Mayer Brown. | Planning advice: Knight Frank.

Local planning authority or government body

Year Completed

2011 (masterplan complete)

Project Size

54 Ha

Technical's

Planting

Materials

Contractors 

ERZ Limited

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Location

Cardross

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