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.
Three postcards by Sue Anderson: M.V. Clansman passing the Lismore lighthouse; five views of Tiree at the pierhead including An Turas; cows at the Glebe with yachts in Gott Bay in the background.
Video recording BB2 programme about Tiree houses broadcast in November 2003.
BBC2 programme in Gaelic with English subtitles about buildings in Tiree – An Turas, thatched and felt roofed houses, the old steading at the Glebe, nissen huts and the Scarinish lighthouse – featuring Mabel MacArthur of Sandaig, Flora MacPhail in Balevullin, Wilie MacLean of Balinoe, Cathy MacNeill and John George Maclean of Scarinish and John Fletcher of Balemartine.
Colour photograph of the Stirling Prize judges at An Turas in 2003.
The Stirling Prize judges at An Turas in August 2003. L-R: Brian Milne, Scarinish; judge; judge; judge; Brian Findlater, Scarinish; Michael Holliday, Baugh; Justine Fleischman.
Invitation to the official opening of An Turas on 10/7/2003.
Postcard style invitation to the official opening of An Turas at the pierhead on 10/7/2003 with a full-size colour photograph of the interior of the tunnel.
Three CD-ROMs of photographs taken by Tiree schoolchildren in February 2003.
Three CD-ROMs of photographs taken by Tiree schoolchildren in February 2003 as part of the Lighthouse Project and subsequently shown in the Lighthouse Gallery in Glasgow. (Disk Nos. 945663, 94664 & 94665)
Paperback book `Common-Place` featuring `Turas` at Gott Bay pierhead.
Book about an exhibition in Glasgow at the Lighthouse, Scotland`s Centre for Architecture, Design and the City, which features `Turas`, Tiree Art Enterprise`s project at the pierhead.
