Buildings Archive 2008

1073 Argyle Street sits on a triangular site fronting onto Argyle Street where the Finnieston Railway Line cuts through the urban block formed by the St Vincent Crescent and Napier Place tenements. The new building seeks to be compatible with...

110 St Vincent Street, a spectacular new office redevelopment, was completed in August, in the heart of Glasgow's commercial district by Holmes for Scarborough Development Group plc (SDG), almost exactly 80 years after the original building first...

The design of the development explores three traditional residential typologies on the site. The terrace was proposed to make the most efficient use of the complex geometry of the site. On the southern edge the site is bounded by a curving...

The project comprises twin blocks, housing predominantly old and ex-homeless persons, that infill a gap site in a long row of 4-storey red sandstone tenements on the south side of the main route between Glasgow and the west highlands. The opening...

220 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, a Grade B listed building, has been sensitively and excitingly redeveloped by Holmes for developers ING Real Estate. Reinvented as a sophisticated office development, 220 St Vincent Street can lay claim to being...

Space Solutions were commissioned to provide a turnkey service to redesign and refurbish the existing Aberdeen Solicitor’s Property Centre. The 3 storey city centre building directly off Union Street, Aberdeen was transformed into a state of...

The brief was to provide a modern Common Room Facility in lieu of the existing – a mostly barren, drab space sparsely populated by miscellaneous chairs and tables, anonymous lockers and several vending machines. The current space was...

The brief was to provide a modern Common Room Facility in lieu of the existing – again a mostly barren, drably decorated space sparsely populated by miscellaneous chairs and tables. Similar to Room 372 the current space was primarily...

For some time now, the practice has been working with Sapphire Primary Care Developments (PCD), a primary care developer, which offers GP surgeries and NHS Trusts tailored made premises which seek to meet all their requirements within their...

The new headquarters building for the Joint Carnegie Trusts provides office space for all three Carnegie Trusts (UK Trust, Universities Trust and combined Dunfermline and Hero Fund Trust), bringing them together into one building for the first...

This project altered and converted an existing single storey timber framed chalet near Stockbridge in Edinburgh into an artist’s studio. The existing roof was raised to the front to create a continuous high level glazed clerestorey to...

This project, for an independent urbanwear retailer, had the brief to create a flagship store from a series of components that could also be adapted for future expansion to other retail sites. The various sales areas of the shop - menswear,...

This project, for an independent urbanwear retailer, had the brief to create a flagship store from a series of components that could also be adapted for future expansion to other retail sites. The various sales areas of the shop; menswear,...

At a time when the national press deplores the closures of GPO services in towns and country, we were delighted to submit fee quotation for a new shop & post office, three bedroomed house and area for a pre-school playgroup on a new site in...

A purpose built veterinary practice designed to meet the latest and forthcoming standards of the BVS. With full surgical and medical facilities including laboratory, radiography, ultrasound and endoscope. Traditionally constructed under a...