Bridge Over Airthrey Loch, Stirling University Campus

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Category C Date Added 15/05/2009 Local Authority Stirling Planning Authority Stirling Parish Logie (Stirling) NGR NS 80830 96628 Coordinates 280830, 696628 — Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners, 1970, (John Richards, partner-in-charge). Long straight high level open bridge spanning Airthrey Loch N to S set in picturesque campus parkland (planned by Ed Hillyard, landscape architect). U-section reinforced concrete with later timber deck. 2 large, narrow splayed supports. Large plain recessed panels with bevelled edges to exterior of parapet, similar smaller panels to inward face of parapet. — An axial bridge which cuts a bold straight line across the natural form of Airthrey Loch and an important component of planned campus layout, providing a key visual and physical link between the central area of the campus and the residences on the N bank. Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall and Partners, were among the leading architects' practices in Scotland dominating the architectural scene from the late 1950s onward. With Robert Matthew as their founder, and with later influential partners such as John Richards they produced some of the most highly regarded buildings of the post-war period in Scotland, the UK and abroad. They made a particular impact on institutional architecture and are responsible for important university schemes at Dundee, Edinburgh, York, Bath and Coleraine. Stirling University was the only 'New University' to be built in Scotland and was part of the wider government agenda to develop and expand tertiary education near small urban centres across the UK, leading up to and the following recommendations made by the seminal Robbins Report Higher Education of 1963. Stirling was chosen along with Sussex, Warwick, Kent, York, Essex, Lancaster, East Anglia, all

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.