Buildings Archive 2006

Won through competitive interview, Reiach and Hall’s new Centre for Creative Industries at Adam Smith College is a £2.4 million, 2-phase project incorporating refurbishment and new build embodying the College’s ambitions. As one...

The brief was to create a high quality location and develop Clydebank as a distinctive and creative regional centre within the Glasgow Metropolitan area. The multidisciplinary team developed a houstic design approach that creates a new regime for...

New Public Library & Learning Centre for the Community in the Aberdeen suburb of Cove Bay. It had to provide opportunities for community involvement, access to Library, lifelong learning and information services.

Dance City asked the design team to create an environment in the new building that would allow for ‘creative communication’ between its diverse users. Their existing building on Peel Lane lacked a central unifying focus, and appeared...

Replacing a former industrial site with a block of 11 apartments. A mix through aspect flats between the lower level and first floor flats. The penthouse is accessed by a small spiral staircase suspended from the roof.

The Category A Listed Domestic Finishing Mill was built c.1886. Although the Domestic Finishing Mill remained intact, it has suffered as result of variety of rather crude alterations over the course of time and was identified in 1995 as being in a...

As part of the East End redevelopment of Glasgow Airport, BAA asked Parr Architects to prepare proposals for the refurbishment of the forecourt area between the existing Main Terminal building (T1) and the newly refurbished and extended St Andrews...

Following a fire which destroyed the public face of the building NORD were approached to design a temporary single storey showroom and service space. Constructed entirely from timber sourced within the adjacent warehouse and standard roof trusses...

To create a piece of contemporary design housing with better than minimum insulation which use the site to its best ecological potential such as the reuse of rainwater, use of sustainable timber, minimising of block work and maximising solar gain.

Cottage flats in a rural location designed to benefit from a passive solar scheme layout. Public consultations with the Community Trust & Local Focus Groups helped develop the physical link into the local Community Woodland Walk. The houses...

In 1993 Page\Park became involved in the conversion of the grade 1 listed St Francis Church and Friary into a community centre and sheltered housing. In 1997 when the Crown St Regeneration Project were deciding on development teams for phases of...

Single storey green oak garden-room extension within established mature garden ground linked to Victorian villa or private client. Alterations and extension provides new kitchen, dining and living spaces.

The complex provides two separate, but linked, buildings offset from each other in parallel to make best use of an awkward shaped site and provide a new public thoroughfare between University Place & University Avenue. The entrances to the...

The Glasgow Harbour project is situated on the site of the Granary building on the Clyde. The project is part of a phased masterplan to regenerate the area from the SECC to Yoker. The first site for development was spilt into 3 parts and one of...

Masterplan the entire barracks to segregate clearly defined living and working zones, creating a balanced environment within the existing built fabric, whilst maximising the strength of existing key features by retaining and complementing them.