Buildings Archive 2021

Cairndow Community Childcare Ltd. is a local childcare provider established by a group of parents and carers in 2004, as a community business to provide vital support to families in the rural community of Cairndow, in Argyll. Having outgrown...

International design studio Graven, has designed new, award-winning offices for Chivas Brothers, the Scotch whisky business of Pernod Ricard, on Blythswood Square in Glasgow’s city centre. Relocating Chivas Brothers’ Scotland...

Clockwise offers serviced office accommodation to both small startup and established businesses. Form Design was Lead Consultant for their space in the Savoy Building and Tower on Renfrew Street, central Glasgow. Clockwise's Glasgow...

Johnnie Walker has opened the doors to its stunning new Highland Home visitor experience at Clynelish Distillery in the latest step towards the recovery of Scottish tourism. Located in the Sutherland town of Brora on the famous NC500 scenic...

Situated on Commercial Street in Leith, these Category ‘A’ listed former bonded warehouses create an impressive street frontage to the south-west and the quayside to the north- east. Our client’s brief was to convert them into...

This project was to convert a church hall, which had been a much loved nursery, into a compact accessible living space. As an existing church hall, the building already had a presence on the wide street, with its variety of scales of townhouses....

Converted container craned onto upper of 2 new terraces created on steep slope behind house, with views out over the Firth of Forth towards Fife

The house was in generally good condition and had an original, stone and slate roof extension at the rear. That extension contained a modest kitchen and scullery, storage and bathroom but the layout was convoluted and the floor levels varied from...

The brief was to create a home for a growing young family — recently returned to the UK after several years working abroad — who fell in love with the site and surrounding woodland on their very first visit. Our approach was to...

The population of Craigmillar fell with the decline of the economy during the 1960s and 1970s, social problems began to grow and the area became stigmatised. In response the Craigmillar Urban Design Framework was established. The 194 homes now...

Hoskins Architects and ERZ have completed a £9.1m renovation of the David Livingstone Birthplace Museum in Blantyre following a three-year restoration programme. Undertaken by Clark Contracts the work entailed a full refurbishment of the...

The construction of Grandhome to the north of the River Dee sees a new community gradually begin to settle upon an ancient land. A land that has been cultivated for many generations. It is a fertile, cultured place. Davidson Square is a...

The design sought to optimise the available space on what was an extremely constrained and technically demanding site by building 2 mews style dwellings over 3 storeys including a basement storey below Dublin Street Lane ground level. The...

Will Rudd Davidson (Edinburgh), consulting engineers, have completed complex engineering works at Dumbarton Harbour, to provide waterfront access for the first time in 150 years. The site at the old quay on the River Leven has been brought back...

Dunoon Primary School (DPS) is a fusion of old and new; a pathfinder project which involved refurbishment, partial demolition and extension of an existing Victorian B listed school. The school, which now serves 300 pupils and includes 30 early...