Buildings Archive 2008

The brief was to design and construct a facility with that would reflect the aspirations of the council in relation to attainment, achievement and, in particular, inclusion. This is reflected in the quality of both the design and the selection of...

A major residential redevelopment of a brownfield site east of Glasgow’s city centre and close to Glasgow Cathedral and the famous Necropolis. The urban design strategy provides contemporary buildings using a blend of materials, massing,...

1) Pinkerton Steadings, Crail comprises 50 Plots divided into 34 dwelling houses and 16 flats. The clients brief was to create a development which not only provided a marketable solution given its popular tourist location, but to allow...

Porcelanosa Grupo is a Spanish group which manufactures bathroom suites, bathroom furniture, kitchens, floor tiles and wall tiles. Quality and style define their product range, available worldwide. This purpose built project, located in...

The brief was to extend an existing semidetached single storey cottage with a contemporary lounge extension. The cottage sits in a mature, south facing garden. An area on the west boundary was identified as the most suitable position for the...

This project totally transformed a disjointed and unremarkable suburban 1970’s house in order for it to rejoice in its fantastic mature garden overlooking the river Tay. The extension is formed by an exposed timber frame, forming a grid...

Fife’s ancient burghs, occupies a challenging site. The two storey extension is cut into a rock face, and is grafted into the client’s existing garden. A relatively modest extension of only 50m2 provides a dramatic new living room,...

Background The Isle of Gigha is the most southern of the Hebridean Isles located a short distance off the western side of the Kintyre Peninsula.  A community based buy out of the island in 2003 provided the opportunity to address long...

LEEBOYD Architects were commissioned by PURE Spa in August 2007 to design the fit out of their third Beauty Salon and Day Spa in Scotland which is located in the new Silverburn Shopping Centre at Barrhead, Glasgow. Challenged by the angular...

Completed in June 2007, the Infrastructure and Public Realm works on the 16 acre site at Queens Quay in Clydebank is the implemented first phase of the 2004 Page\Park Master Plan for the redevelopment and regeneration of the 80 acre site in...

RE:Locate is a major new-build campus for Queen Margaret University. Designed around an extensive flagship building, it has been a key tool in the client gaining “Top 10 Modern University” status and is a strong visual statement of...

The brief here was to take an existing space within the college, previously stripped out for works that had never come to fruition, and fit a new Chemistry lab, providing perimeter and island benching with all associated services and fume cupboard...

This aim of this project was to create two multi functioning teaching rooms for use by the Electronic & Electrical Engineering department and the Central Pool Teaching department on Level 4 in the Royal College Building for Strathclyde...

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...

A lack of investment over the 30 year life span of the Renfrewshire Council HQ complex has resulted in significant deterioration of the building fabric and environmental services. This coupled with a failure of the cellular accommodation to easily...