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GLASGOW City Council's Development & Regeneration Services have commissioned the first accurate 3D Urban City Model...
Holmes architects has submitted a full planning application, on behalf of Valad Property Group, for a major commercial...
THE pursuit of architecture in Britain in the 21st century is often enervating, and sometimes almost shockingly...
A-S:Ls Glasgow office has won the competition to design a new £5m Library for the University of Edinburgh...
The £140 million Estates masterplan for the Robert Gordon University's Garthdee campus will have to be redesigned...
DCM's new offices sits above the Argyll Arcade, over looking Buchanan Street. As one of the contenders for the...
A consortium put together by Progress Property Developments is among one of several groups bidding for the lucrative...
East Strathclyde Police has denied reports that it is planning to relocate its headquarters into the east end of...
What are the main challenges facing Glasgow?
The first challenge is how we actually achieve a...
Val Clugston had only three months to design the interior of Glasgow Caledonian University's landmark Saltire Centre...
This essay was stimulated by two seminars I attended last month. The first, an Urban Renaissance Conference on the...
Reading Prospect's Edinburgh issue was a strange experience. I see some very different "challenges" to those...
Union Street Properties, the developer that has been hoping to redevelop Alexander Greek Thomson's Eygptian Halls in...
Leading architect Malcolm Fraser has spoken out about the rising influence of planners in the design process -...
Scotland's economy, we are routinely informed by politicians, is in future to be knowledge-based, a condition within...
Rem Koolhaas, director of OMA, was in Glasgow recently to visit Gartnavel Hospital to identify a site for his proposed...
Last month Prospect looked at the urban design challenges facing Edinburgh. This issue looks at a broader level at the...
Glasgow City Council has confirmed that its architects will be moved from its Land and Environment department into the...
Fifteen years ago I had a studio on London Road smack bang in the middle of the Barras Market and five minutes from...
Following recent speculation, it has now been reported that solar lily pads are likely to become a fixture on Glasgow's...
THE landscape of the city of Glasgow may be changing in ways less obvious Ð but equally as profound Ð than the...
Glasgow's famous 'squinty bridge' is set to reopen after six months of repairs, the city council has announced.
...The Glasgow School of Art Campus - with iconic Rennie Mackintosh school at its centrepiece - is to...
Edinburgh revisited This is an extended version of the article byTrevor Davies that appeared in Prospect 131
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How good governance leads to better place making In 2004 we, in association with the Carnyx Group, organisers of the...
City of Edinburgh Council design and planning team have their work cut out for them, both in their day to day planning...
My tenure has witnessed a period of considerable change in governance both at local and national levels, as well as...
Sir Terry Farrell was appointed to the honorary position of the City of Edinburgh Council’s first “City...
The Energy Performance of Buildings Directive states that by January 2009 all countries within the European Union has...
Despite the plethora of guidance and policy, it is clear that there continues to be misconceptions regarding the...
I like what Bill Gates said about predicting the future. We overestimate what we think we will achieve in the...
Architecture has always had something of an identity crisis – being in part science, part art; a mix of abstract...
It’s sensible to expect theoretical ideas to face harsh and unforgiving trials before they become a reality. Many...
The 19 acre Quartermile is the most impressive construction site in Edinburgh at present. Due for completion in 2012 by...
Edinburgh’s historic environment – its buildings, and monuments, its places and spaces – is...
Today we appreciate Cockburn Street both as an integral part of Edinburgh’s Old Town and a distinctive aesthetic...
Many people’s reaction to the news that BDP is opening a new Edinburgh office is not “why?” but...
This is Edinburgh’s unluckiest building. It was once home to Scotland’s largest PLC: the mighty Distillers...
“Good evening, my name is Riccardo Marini, I am an alcoholic” – If I was, and wanted to get better,...
Over the last few years the Design Champion initiative has contributed to the debate on connecting up Glasgow and...
Throughout the world the post industrial landscapes of docks and dockyards has changed beyond recognition, presenting...
Princes Street is one of the most spectacular streets in Europe. Its great drama lies in its setting facing the castle...
YOU either have it or you don’t. Work in China that is, and depending upon which side of that line an architect...
In the old, pre-Thatcher days of trade union power, the mention of a ‘work to rule’ was a well recognised...
The visitor’s image of Edinburgh is of a great historical city with an astonishing array of urban design set...
The last quarter of 2007 saw the impact of the so called credit crunch bite directly where it was most visible, in the...
Waverley is a remarkable piece of town planning. The notion of building a railway line along the bottom of Princes...
We feel there’s quite a bit of unfinished business on Lothian Road. The Exchange project has almost been...
Picardy Place is a depressingly triumphant example of the erosion of place through increase in traffic movement.
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There is no doubt that the tram and its integration into modern Edinburgh is going to be of the most challenging urban...
Though the Haymarket has always been central Edinburgh’s westernmost station, it has until recently been almost a...
There are many examples of excellent initiatives across Europe (and indeed the world) of cities that have an urban...
This is an excellent example of how the Design Champion initiative successfully promoted the involvement of urban...
I still have all my pantone pens, airbrush, .25 & .5 Rotring pens and even an AO drawing...
It has been over four years since the Urban Design Group, of which I was a member, recommended the appointment of a...
Jim MacKinnon heads up the new Directorate for the Built Environment, which now embraces planning, building standards...
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