PETER WILLIAMS was a distinguished and well-known Glasgow architect. Educated at Glasgow Academy, he then studied at the Glasgow School of Architecture, where he had a glittering academic career.

After military service during the war, he practised in Glasgow and for most of his professional life was a partner in the firm of Wylie Shanks.

Petermade a major impact on the Glasgow architectural scene with his early 1960s design for the College of Building and Printing and the College of Commerce, buildings which stand on the opposite sides of Cathedral Street and were derived from the archetypal high-rise buildings of Le Corbusier. Each Modernist slab rose to a dramatic roofscape of sculptural concrete shapes.

Architectural opinion is that the brilliantly executed perspective drawings of each design which Peter prepared were something of a graphic tour de force. He received Civic Trust Awards for both these buildings and, also, for anothermajor achievement - the Motherwell and Wishaw Civic Centre.

Other buildings in the commercial centre of Glasgow designed by Peter include Dale House in West George Street, now occupied by the Royal Bank of Scotland, and Fountain House at Charing Cross.

Peter lived most of his life in the west end of Glasgow, but, eventually, after retiring, moved to live in Millport, where he had owned a holiday home formany years. He enjoyed excellent health until the last year of his life and even then, when his health became a matter of concern to his family and friends, Peter regarded any problems he had with something approaching insouciance, not a matter to be discussed and certainly not at length!

An essentially private man, but with an element of flamboyance, Peterwas an excellent raconteurwith a lively, if somewhat dark, sense of humour and was a most genial host. Most of his time was devoted to his professional work and to his family life with his four children and wife Heather.