Trades Hall

I suppose this is part of my series on challenging modern buildings. This is the new Trades Hall on Holburn Street, Aberdeen, seen from the waiting room of my dentist.

The outside is uncompromising, if interesting in concrete. The inside is a set of beautiful top lit spaces. They reused the original stained glass windows.

It occurs to me you can design a building starting from what you want inside and express that on the outside, or design the outside and then fit things into it. I assume it is generally a case of compromising the two.