Buildings Archive 2019

These three townhouses capture the essecnce of rural living whilst only 15 minutes from Edinburgh’s city centre. The concept behind the development was driven by the three-bay existing steel frame, timber clad and crinkly tin roof...

The University of Edinburgh is to be congratulated on this significant and successful regeneration project. An attitude to reuse, reimagine and re-purpose an existing structure, rather than demolish and re-build is really the truly responsible...

Lochside House is a highly successful creation by the team of architect-client-builder. The scale, material choices, use of the setting and integration into the landscape were all excellent. A sustainable building making good use of wood was a...

The conversion of the disused old Mill building provided many challenges. Predominantly those relating to the constraints provided by the existing structural layout. The introduction of three new stair cores and two new lift shafts were necessary...

Simpson & Brown worked with the Willow Tea Rooms Trust to help restore the 1903 Charles Rennie Mackintosh designed Willow Tea Rooms and create a world class exhibition and education centre in the adjacent building. Appointed as project...

Conversion of an existing office building to form a new 82 bedroom hotel. The first Mode Aparthotel in the UK.  

The project at Monachyle Beag was to create a new sporting estate within a 1000-acre upland holding in the Trossachs. The centrepiece is a new hunting lodge which is perched on the edge of a mountainside looking over Loch Doine and to the upper...

Working within Edinburgh’s Georgian New Town World Heritage Site on a Category A listed town house present’s its own challenges! We were tasked with creating a new cooking/eating space that forms a link between the basement storey...

Collective Architecture was commissioned by Home Group Scotland to design 32 new houses and a children’s home on Glasgow’s south side. The site is located on Muirskeith Road, adjacent to Newlands Conservation area: a leafy...

The primary aim of the design was to bring purpose and life back into the Anchor Line Building, a fine Grade A listed building in Glasgow’s Central Conservation Area, which had fallen into a state of disrepair to the extent it has been...

The New Waverley Office Building was constructed as part of the 2nd phase of projects within the 2006 masterplan for the New Waverley Development. It is situated just North of the Royal Mile, within the Edinburgh Unesco World Heritage site and...

North East Campus is a three stream, 800 pupil primary school with integrated assisted learning departments and 150 early years nursery places. The building plan form is that of a simple square. A monolithic, protective brick envelope wraps...

Page\Park have just completed a new home for the Architecture and Built Environment Department at Northumbria University. Located within the Grade II listed Sutherland Building, the project provides much needed studio and teaching space over two...

The Oban North Pier Harbour Building is located on a prominent site, on Oban’s North Pier and forms part of the Argyll & Bute Council’s wider public realm regeneration of Oban’s High Street and Waterfront. The building...

SPT’s Redevelopment of Partick Bus Station creates an attractive “forecourt” to the existing Rail/Subway station completing a transport hub that integrates bus, rail, subway with national cycle and local footpath networks...