Buildings Archive 2024

Craigend Resource Centre (CRC) is a registered charity providing social, recreational, educational and health services and facilities for the residents of Greenock East. Research has identified that this is a community living with multiple...

Perched on the south bank of the River Tay, this contemporary villa provides a new family home for a growing family and commands dramatic views across the Tay Estuary, Invergowrie Bay and onwards over the Sidlaw Hills. The warm yet minimal design...

A dwelling house, located within and around a stone and brick ruin in the Ayrshire landscape. The project was conceived as a ‘building within a ruin’, and consists of a quiet, honest, and restrained intervention, extension, and...

In the trees, and of the trees. Dundreggan Rewilding Centre is the first of its kind in the world. Designed by Threesixty Architecture, the building celebrates nature and stands as a place of hope that connects visitors with Scotland’s...

The open space strategy aims to retain the green, leafy character of the existing development whilst increasing the overall provision of good quality, public green spaces. This has been achieved whilst balancing the planning requirement to...

The transformation of a ground and basement flat overlooking the Dean Valley. An open plan remodelling of the basement to allow light to flow from front to back and connect with the private rear garden and a remodelling of the remaining...

Fairburn Tower was built in around 1545 and is a typical example of a four-storey Scottish tower house. Adaptations in the early 17th century saw the addition of a fine stair turret. Aside of these adaptations, the building is a rare survival...

The site is located on a traditional farmhouse in Fife, at the end of a long private driveway in an enclosed ‘walled garden’ setting within the main farm grounds. The main farmhouse building has had a number of extensions over the...

Moxon Architects has completed the Gairnshiel Jubilee Bridge in rural Aberdeenshire in the eastern part of the Cairngorms National Park in collaboration with civil and structural engineers Arcadis. Named in honor of Queen Elizabeth II’s...

The Gala Fairydean Rovers Spectators Stand in the small Scottish Borders town of Galashiels is one of the most exciting pieces of modern architecture in the UK. It opened in 1964 during a period of architectural optimism in Europe in general, at...

This B-listed Georgian house in the Portobello Conservation Area in Edinburgh had been used for commercial purposes (latterly a dental surgery) for almost a century when the owners purchased it in 2012. Unsympathetic extensions to the rear and...

This house had been altered, extended and reconfigured a large number of times over the last 40 or so years. It had resulted in a very convoluted floor plan, with winding corridors and poor daylighting. Our refurbishment resolved a number of...

Lune Valley Community Land Trust (CLT) and South Lakes Housing are delighted to complete a new development of 20 Passivhaus-standard homes in Halton, Lancaster. The £3.7m project consists of 16 two-storey terrace houses and four cottage...

The Harmeny Learning Hub is a new vocational learning centre designed by Loader Monteith with Studio SJM for the Harmeny Education Trust. Designed on the concept of an embrace, the new woodland school provides a safe and uplifting learning...

Izat Arundell have sensitively transformed a Category A listed mews building in Edinburgh’s New Town into a contemporary two-bedroom home. The brief was to retain the essence of the historic building, introduce a new breathable insulated...