Buildings Archive 2024

This four bedroom, low energy house takes great care to accommodate the client’s programme on the site in such a way that the house sits comfortably within the context of the surrounding buildings and also the wider string of settlements...

Timber clad balcony extension and internal renovation to A Listed apartment at Moray Place, Edinburgh New Town located within UNESCO World Heritage Site. This demanding project included the demolition and rebuilding of a first floor...

Built on a narrow space of only 1.7m, the small addition designed by Rizzo Architecture radically transforms the fruition of the ground floor layout and injects new energy to a traditional townhouse in Glasgow. Despite the fine architecture, the...

This 1930s bungalow had hardly been changed at all over the years. Whereas the front rooms were of good proportions and size the rear of the property was not suitable for the needs of a young family of today. The solution was to rebuild the rear...

A former Salvation Army Citadel has been radically transformed into new office space in the East End of Glasgow. Now known as New Olympia House, the space will support in the region of 30 full time jobs. The £1.7m development has been...

Create an open plan living/cooking/eating space that connects to the private, south facing, courtyard garden.

Voigt Architects were commissioned to design a shelter that would complement the Award Winning Leaf Room building (completed in 2016) and Ninewells Community Garden The building is primarily for staff/patients at Ninewells hospital providing a...

Located in the small Shetland village of North Roe, North Roe Kirk operated as a Methodist community church for over century. In 2019, it was sold by Church of Scotland due to financial pressures and a declining congregation. To bring this...

Aitken Turnbull were appointed to redevelop the former Almstrongs Department Store site in Hawick to create a contemporary landmark building consisting of three stories of office accommodation. The 433m2 office space is designed to provide...

In light of the UK's aim to achieve Net Zero by 2050, businesses are taking greater steps to run their operations in an environmentally conscious manner. This can range from using electric or hybrid business vehicles to altering business...

The brief for Paisley Central Library was to create a dynamic, community focussed, new Central Library set within a challenging historic building at 22 High Street, Paisley. Collective Architecture began working on this exciting project in 2018....

Following in the footsteps of our acclaimed renovation of the New York Public Library, Mecanoo undertook the challenging task of revitalizing Perth's former City Hall—a structure that epitomizes the grandeur of the Edwardian Period, dating...

A Broxburn-based distiller has opened a £4.5m headquarters in the West Lothian town, adjacent to their existing bottling facility. Ian MacLeod Distillers has relocated to a 21,000sq/ft steel framed building on East Mains Industrial Estate,...

The Port of Leith Distillery (PoLD), is Scotland’s first vertical distillery. A true mixed-use waterfront destination that sets a new standard of experience and accessibility in the design of distilleries. The building embodies the ambition...

The original Kelso High School was established in 1878. A new building with increased capacity, designed in an Art Deco style by Reid and Forbes Architects, was opened in 1939. This building remains today and is listed as Grade B. The school...