One concern is the aggressiveness alluded to above, and the strong negativity of the location. My gut feeling is that the warm wooden womb-like interiors of Richard Murphy, Frank Gehry and Page/Park might be more conducive to the users than this very assertive building. But the immediate context is more of an issue: the building sits on the edge of a dull tarmac car park with the crumbling hospital slab block towering over it. The building has a curious relationship with the steep valley immediately to the south: it hovers over the edge but is partly tucked into the slope. It therefore neither floats nor is embedded. There is nothing wrong with this, it’s just that with the trees and steepness of the slope it is hard to read and thus the building in a way has a Janus-like nature in that it reads as a different beast when viewed from north or south. Views up to the building from the valley are strong and redolent of the similar situation at Dundee where Gehry’s ‘Broch’ looks seductive from the south but becomes a cowering timorous beastie from the north.