An Turas
Photograph of An Turas, Scotland’s Building of the Year 2003.
Courtesy of Mrs Claudia Ferguson-Smyth
Commissioned by Tiree Art Enterprises, An Turas (The Journey) was the result of a collaborative project involving artists and architects. The building won the Royal Institute of Architects of Scotland’s Building of the Year award in 2003 and was short-listed for the RIBA Stirling Award later that year.
The building is long and narrow and in three distinct sections. The first and longest is two parallel white walls open to the sky, which echo with the sound of footsteps. The second is a bridging black box with a wooden floor and low open slatted sides which reveal the rock and sand beneath.
The final section is a glass box framed in steel and floored with upright stacked slate. Protruding through a stone dyke, the box gives an unobstructed three-dimensional view of the surrounding landscape while sheltering the viewer from the elements.
Colour photograph of An Turas taken in the summer of 2006.
An Turas photographed in the summer of 2006 by Claudia Ferguson-Smyth.
CD with fourteen images of Tiree.
CD with six views of Tiree taken from the plane, one of a basking shark and seven of a well at Balephetrish.
CD with eighty-one images of the heavy horse event at 6 Kenovay on 21 July 2007.
Eighty-one photographs of the heavy horse event at 6 Kenovay on 21 July 2007 taken by Peter Knapman of Kenovay.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 398, 25/8/2007.
Local news and events including the new term at Argyll College, the `retirement` of Alasdair Sinclair from An Iodhlann and news from the RSPB.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 399, 8/9/2007.
Local news and events including the walking group, an update on the airport runway upgrade, the results of lamb and cattle sales on 31st August and news from the RSPB.
First of three audio CDs recording a ceilidh at the BBC`s Queen Margaret Drive studios in Glasgow on 29/6/2007.
BBC recording of a ceilidh at their Queen Margaret Drive studios in Glasgow. First of 3 recordings, (Master CDs in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 1)
Second of three audio CDs recording a ceilidh at the BBC`s Queen Margaret Drive studios in Glasgow on 29/6/2007.
BBC recording of a ceilidh at their Queen Margaret Drive studios in Glasgow. Second of three recordings (Master CDs in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 1)
Third of three audio CDs recording a ceilidh at the BBC`s Queen Margaret Drive studios in Glasgow on 29/6/2007.
BBC recording of a ceilidh at their Queen Margaret Drive studios in Glasgow. Third of three recordings. (Master CDs in Filing Cabinet 8 drawer 1)
Minidisk recording of Tom MacMillan of Rothesay talking to Maggie Campbell on 22/7/2007.
Tom MacMillan of Eskchraggan Farm in Rothesay talks to Maggie Campbell in July 2007 about his visit to the Agricultural Show with his Clydesdale horses Jock and Jeannie, the ploughing demonstration he gave at 6 Kenovay, and the breeding and welfare of Clydesdale horses.
Newsletter `An Tirisdeach`, No. 397, 11/8/2007.
Local news and events including Rona Campbell skippering the `Clansman`, Gaidhlig air a` Bhata, Council concerns over foot and mouth outbreak and July`s regatta.
