Buildings Archive 2016

The Forsinard Lookout Tower was commissioned by The Peatlands Partnership ­ which includes The RSPB, Scottish Natural Heritage, The Forestry Commission (Scotland) and Highland Council ­ to provide visitors to Sutherland elevated views...

Edinburgh based David Blaikie Architects release the first photographs of their recently completed remodelling of a small suburban house in the Blackhall area of Edinburgh.  The dramatic, angular, glazed extension doubles the size of the...

The second phase of the hugely successful Glasgow Fort retail development is located ten miles east of Glasgow city centre, within Easterhouse town centre and is accessed directly from Junction 10 of the M8 motorway. Although conceived as part...

Collective Architecture won a limited competition to redevelop a Category B' listed library in Bridgeton, Glasgow for The Glasgow Women’s Library. The library, built on 1903, is one of seven “Carnegie” libraries donated to the...

This late Victorian semi-detached family home has been extended in order to create a contemporary open plan kitchen-dining and living space for an ‘Artist’ client who specified warmth, light and functionality as the key elements of the...

Having identified the former Grandholm Mill as a potentially quirky site for a new office award winning agency AVC Media asked Tinto to work with them to help realise a vision set out by CEO Spencer Buchan. The former mill having been used a...

Re-modelling of existing Arts & Crafts terraced property including new dining area, kitchen and extension into rear garden. Frameless glazing with over-sailing white canopy create a light and elegant modernist internal space and external...

Austin-Smith:Lord were appointed in December 2009 to work with Argyll and Bute Council to deliver ambitious regeneration plans for Helensburgh Town Centre as part of their CHORD initiative (Campbeltown, Helensburgh, Oban, Rothesay, Dunoon) The...

The house is located on the edge of the shore at Nostie, Kyle of Lochalsh. The site slopped significantly from the access point down to the shore. The brief was to create a large holiday home that was on 3 different levels to suit the existing...

Our clients wished to re-configure the first floor layout of their New Town, Georgian town house to accommodate a new en-suite bathroom for their master bedroom. They have lived and traveled widely in the Middle East and presented us with a fuzzy...

The client is undergoing an expansion of his dental practice, incorporating a re-branding and new corporate identity. The main brief was to create a contemporary dental surgery, extending into the 2 adjacent shop units. The proposal creates a...

ICAS, the professional body of chartered accountants, appointed SASANBELL as architect to alter and refurbish its headquarters situated in the heart of Edinburgh's Haymarket, CA House is the global HQ of ICAS. The aim was to improve the...

This 6.8m2 ‘glass box’ extension and remodelling of the ground floor rear rooms allows the new kitchen and dining spaces of this Category B listed early Victorian townhouse to spill out into its small, enclosed, south facing garden....

James Gillespie’s High School was included in the Wave 3 of funding from Edinburgh City Council’s on-going programme of investment to create education facilities that are fit for purpose in the 21st Century. The “A” listed...

A small cottage in Jemimaville had to be extended and upgraded to meet the requirements of modern living. A difficult sloping site, require a stepped extension which created a new utility, kitchen and dining area which could open out onto the...