Buildings Archive 2015

Carson & Partners have just completed new student housing for Alumno Developments, working with Kier Construction on the corner of Mansfield Park in Dumbarton Road, Glasgow. The £8.0m building is C&P’s first purpose-built...

The design is based on the idea of ‘placing’ a new house inside the existing historic bothy. This idea preserves the history of the place, keeping the bothy visible from the road and at the forefront of the proposal whilst creating a...

Graven has completed the rebranding of Enterprise North East Trust and design of a £1 million state-of-the-art facility for the Aberdeen-based organisation that delivers Business Gateway services in Grampian and Tayside. Graven created...

The Empire Cafe was an exploration of Scotland's relationship with the North Atlantic slave trade through coffee, sugar, tea, cotton, music, visual art, academic lectures, poetry, debate, workshops, historical walks, film and literature. The...

A contemporary porch and sunroom extension to a traditional granite Aberdeenshire farmhouse. The porch extension is constructed from a series of larch post and timber framed painted glazing, with an anthracite coloured profiled metal roof. The...

The basic design parameters were dictated by Scottish Power’s exemplar scheme which sets out length, width, height and mass of the building. In addition to this the base scheme defines ventilation and access requirements which had to be...

Atkins have completed a number of significant interventions within the Category A listed Glasgow Central Station. Main entrances from Union Street and the low level station have been transformed in advance of Glasgow's Commonwealth Games along...

're-conversion' of a really poorly converted steading building with extensions to provide improved circulation, additional bedroom/ living accommodation and to make the most of the incredible views previously unavailable from the small window...

This small contemporary extension creates a kitchen/dining/lounge space onto the south/west corner of an existing semi-detached property. The existing kitchen was small and the Client expressed a desire to extend to create an open plan space to...

This competition winning scheme to accommodate 250 post graduate students arranges 45 flats around a central, sociable, split level courtyard. Study bedrooms all face out onto the street, characterised by triangular bay windows which are...

Alteration and extension to the Institute of Genetics and Molecular medicine complex (IGMM) for The University of Edinburgh at the Western General Hospital, Edinburgh Oberlanders have recently completed this circa £10m research laboratory...

The project comprises the relocation of jmarchitects Glasgow Studio to an empty shop front in Glasgow’s Merchant City. Uppermost is the idea of making the activity of doing architecture more explicit and evident in the context of the...

Kelvingrove Bandstand and Amphitheatre is a unique outdoor performance venue within Kelvingrove Park in Glasgow. The Category B listed venue opened in 1924 and by the mid 1990's the venue had become disused. Page \ Park were appointed by Glasgow...

The new Kirkmichael Primary School promotes a locally distinctive and contemporary design inspired by South Ayrshire’s rural character. The building form is an interpretation of disaggregated farm-steadings, linked and clustered in a...

A flagship visitor Centre at Galloway Forest Park for the Forestry Commission Scotland forming part of a roll out programme of 5 centres around Scotland offering improved facilities for visitors The Centre is situated in Galloway Forest Park...