
High School of Dundee Centre for Performing and Visual Arts
Key Facts
Client
High School of Dundee
Location
Euclid Crescent, Dundee, DD1 1HU
Value
£12,000,000
Internal Floor Area
6,800m2
A vertical playground for learning
Project Info
The site for the new Centre for Performing and Visual Arts is the former General Post Office plus the dramatic new entrance extension, providing approx. 7500m2 of floor area across six different levels. This houses new accommodation for the creative and culinary arts (Art, Drama, Music and Home Economics departments) along with new dining and social facilities, plus the associated ancillary spaces. This ambitious development provides the High School with the opportunity to provide internal social spaces otherwise lacking across the campus, along with improved staff facilities.
At the heart of the design is the new performance hall, providing a facility for the wider community, and supporting an elevated dining facility. Lost interiors of the listed building are sympathetically recreated, and the external fabric of the listed building sensitively repaired and restored.
The new entrance to this facility faces the original High School building across Euclid Crescent and appropriately houses a central stair that playfully climbs up the various levels of the building and leading to the unexpected rooftop courtyard.





