On Wed, 27 Nov 2013 19:54:36 +0000 SteveW wrote :
I went to school in a building that won design awards in the 60s

1) Floor to ceiling glass, so freeze or bake depending upon the time of
year.
2) Flat roofs, so numerous leaks.
3) Internal drainpipes, so more leaks - especially into the classrooms
below the chemistry labs.
4) Design based upon a rectangular hall/dining hall, with a square
building at each corner, overlapping one side to allow a doorway at each
common wall section. The squares containing variously classrooms, labs,
gym and engineering/woodwork block. Hence whenever exams were on in the
hall, pupils had to move from block to block outside the building, no
matter what the weather - there weren't even any pathways to the
engineering block!

Hunstanton School? Horrendous building according to the teaching staff,
winner of architectural awards and Listed.

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Tony Bryer, Greentram: 'Software to build on',
Melbourne, Australia www.greentram.com