Buildings Archive 2014

The project was to extend a small 1st floor flat into the loft and create a new bedroom with dormer. A simple brief complicated only by the lack of headroom in the loft, the client’s design ambition and conservative planning rules in this...

This Zinc clad house in the township of Rhue near Ullapool, sits on a wonderful site with south west views to Loch Broom and the Summer Isles. The house design takes inspiration from the low pitch agricultural sheds that pepper the landscape....

Riverford Road is a public realm and gardens enhancement project bringing together artists, architects, landscape designers, local school children and the community.   Collective Architecture were commissioned to design a lighting...

In the autumn of 2012, Bergmark Architects, leading a multi-disciplinary team, won a competitive bid to design and deliver two extensions to student housing complexes in the centre of Edinburgh; at Sciennes and Robertson's Close. This building,...

This late Victorian terraced cottage was altered to open up three existing rooms, a kitchen, bedroom and bathroom to form one large open plan kitchen / living / dining space. This allowed a clean and direct connection to the West facing garden...

Ruffians Barber Shop & Store, an innovative high quality gentlemen’s grooming destination designed by brand experts Graven, has arrived in London’s Covent Garden. The masculine yet refined design has similarities to the...

In 2012 Scottish Canals commissioned rankinfraser to design the on-land facilities for their pilot Living on Water site at Leamington Wharf, Edinburgh. Following the success of that initiative Scottish Canals progressed with developing a series of...

The brief for 25,000sqm net Scottish Crime Campus was therefore very complex in terms of adjacencies, security levels and non-contamination of evidence, but also aimed to encourage common purpose. As a consequence, a functional analysis of the...

The William Quarrier Scottish Epilepsy centre provides the only residential assessment and treatment centre in Scotland for adults with epilepsy. It has 12 in-patient beds, family accommodation and common areas as well as consulting rooms, meeting...

The complex and sensitive ‘SoCo’ development site lies within the heart of the Edinburgh World Heritage Site and the Old Town Conservation Area. Following a devastating fire in 2002 the site in this vital part of Edinburgh’s Old...

This project was delivered in a very short timescale to meet the opening date for Glasgow’s new SSE Hydro venue and required close-working with other design team who were delivering the base-build and other fit-out packages. The approach...

The Purpose-built Storage and Office Accommodation is within the St Andrews Links Trust estate situated on the outskirts of St Andrews, on the East Coast of Fife. The building was completed in March 2013. The brief from the client was to...

Situated at the quayside in the very heart of the town of Svolvær, a 6,200 m² combined residential and business complex will reach completion in 2010. The residential part comprises 2,800 m² of housing distributed between two...

This house is sited in a rectangular natural hillside plot accessed off the main road into Kippford on the Solway Coast. Principal views range between the south-west and north-east enjoying a spectacular landscape setting of the River Urr valley...

Located in Inchinnan and forming part of Strathclyde University’s extended campus, the AFRC is a beacon for engineering and manufacturing excellence. This high quality, purpose built facility is designed to meet the client’s...