Buildings Archive 2006

A mews conversion with a layered street façade, although the initial proposal of a screen of glass blocks was modified after insistence on a substantial panel of stone at first floor level. Views out through the horizontal slot windows are...

The brief for this development was to design a purpose built facility for the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, which would act as there Regional Headquarters and Hearing Centre. The building is located in a prominent city centre...

Executed and opened to the public within 18 weeks with a £150k budget, our Research & Development Centre included completion of the building shell, heating, lighting, floor & wall finishes and exhibition fit-out. Our task was to...

Formed from a former Georgian stable block the key objective was to create a bright spacious working environment for staff combined with an interior design that was representative of the company identity.

The brief for Robin House was essentially another Rachel House adapted to suit the site, with facilities for the provision of respite care for eight families at any one time, also catering for teenagers and providing a hydrotherapy pool. The...

This project involved the fit out of part of the 2nd floor level at Rosebery House to form office and support accommodation for HBOS HR Department. Images taken by Keith Hunter.

Roucan Loch is set in 10 acres of countryside with the site itself bounded to the north by a mature Scots pine wood and to the south by the Loch itself. The background of this setting, was essential to the design of the building to emphasise the...

The Royal Bank of Scotland is Scotland's largest company and the fifth largest bank in the world. It had outgrown its central Edinburgh Headquarters and Michael Laird were commissioned in 2001 to find a new HQ site following the demise of a...

Situated at the heart of the city centre campus the Saltire Centre has been built to provide the University with a new learning centre that sits at the cutting edge of contemporary educational thinking. The building acts not only a library and...

The new Headquarters for the Scottish Agricultural Science Agency (SASA), an agency of the Scottish Executive, is located on an 8-hectare site within the Edinburgh Greenbelt. The 11,000sqm building comprises new state of the art laboratories with...

Headquarters building designed to demanding sustainability brief achieved highest ever bream rating in the UK.

Six houses with wheelchair accommodation at ground floor and sleepover office accommodation for care staff at mezzanine level. Houses are designed to maximise opportunity to give residents views out to sea and hills. The six houses link to turn...

This city-centre project sits within the heart of Edinburgh's New Town World Heritage site.  Reiach and Hall's masterplan for this significant gap site provides high quality residential & commercial units.  Reiach and Hall's new...

Build a new scientific research facility with top quality space and state of the art equipment to extend the universities existing biomedical research centre, the Welcome Trust Building. The building is to take advantage of the natural views while...

Pine Lodge is located within the conservation village of Dullatur, on the north east outskirts of Glasgow. Our client approached us, in the first instance, to design a new 2 storey extension that would double the existing accommodation and...