High Sunderland Galashiels, Scottish Borders Modern Home, 20th Century Luxury House Scotland, Architect
High Sunderland, Galashiels by Loader Monteith
23 June 2022
RIBA Awards 2022 Winning Buildings and Architects
High Sunderland is one of the 29 winners of the 2022 RIBA National Awards for architecture. There were three winners in Scotland.

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RIBA Awards 2022
High Sunderland Wins an RIAS Award in 2022
6 June 2022
High Sunderland, Galashiels by Loader Monteith
This Modern Scottish property wins an RIAS Award in 2022
It is one of the eight exceptional buildings as winners of Scotland?s national architecture awards.

High Sunderland is a 1957 Category A-listed modernist icon designed by Peter Womersley. Its future was in jeopardy following a fire in 2017 until new owners Juliet Kinchin and Paul Stirton appointed architects Loader Monteith to undertake an extraordinarily careful and skilful restoration.

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High Sunderland in Galashiels
Our visit to Bernat Klein?s Peter Womersley designed High Sunderland began with a wrong turn.

Generally viewed as pejorative, sometimes going the wrong way leads to good conclusions and that was the case on our visit as came across the Klein studio before reaching High Sunderland and such is the quality and surprise over stumbling across a concrete and glass concoction in the Scottish borders that our entire party, including the driver, gasped as one.
We knew we were in for a treat.

But herein lies the dif...