A new building created for one of Glasgow's most prestigious schools has won the Best Building Award for 2016.

The Saunders Centre, designed by Page\Park Architects, has been awarded the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland prize.

The award, the RIAS Andrew Doolan award, was chosen from a short list of eleven projects.

The Saunders Centre, in Glasgow's west end, was a "clear winner".

The award was presented at a ceremony at the National Museum of Scotland by Fiona Hyslop, culture secretary, alongside Margaret Doolan, the late Andrew Doolan’s mother.

The winner receives a gold medal cast and a cheque for £25,000, making it the richest architectural prize in the UK.

The judges for this year’s award were David Dunbar, Iain Dickson and Eleanor McAllister.

The judges’ citation for the winning project reads: "This splendid new addition to Glasgow Academy’s campus is an elegant and subtle addition to the streetscape.

"The reinforced concrete structural frame is clad in a pattern of precast polished and honed finishes.

"This modular assembly rises from the podium for the raised ground floor, through a sequence of bay windows to a reinterpretation of the Glasgow dormer at roof level."

The RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award was founded in 2002 by the architect and entrepreneur Andrew Doolan, who died in 2004.

Mr Doolan determined that this award would be the richest in the UK and that it should go to the best building in Scotland each year.

The award is now jointly funded by the Scottish Government and the Doolan Family.

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) was founded in 1916 and is the professional body for chartered architects in Scotland.

In its centenary year, the Festival of Architecture 2016 has staged more than 460 events throughout Scotland and attracted an audience of over 850,000 people, RIAS said.