June 21 2012

The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has named 18 buildings as representing the best in contemporary Scottish architecture at an inaugural dinner for the RIAS Awards.

These ranged in scale from Icosis Architects £34k Loch Leven bird Hide, to a £47.5m revamp of the National Museum of Scotland by Gareth Hoskins Architects.

All winning projects will be eligible for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Award (save Hoskins’ National Museum of Scotland which won this accolade last year) and the RIBA Stirling Prize.

Each of the 18 winning projects were selected from a shortlist of 23 drawn from 71 submissions.

Adding to the confetti of titles five of these 18 projects were additionally honoured with a RIBA Award for Scotland; they are:

Bogbain Mill, Lochussie, by Maryburgh
Rural Design

Dundee House (£29.85million)        
Reiach and Hall Architects (Client: Dundee City Council)

Maggie's Gartnavel, Glasgow (contract value not for publication)
OMA (Client: Maggie Keswick Jencks Cancer Caring Centres Trust)

National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh (£47.4million)
Gareth Hoskins Architects (Client: National Museums Scotland)

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (£11.5million)      
Page\Park Architects (National Galleries of Scotland)


The 13 remaining sole winners were:

Cape Cove, Shore Road, Helensburgh (£450k)    
Cameron Webster Architects (Client: not for publication)

Corinthian Club, Glasgow (£4.5million)     
G1 Group (Client: G1 Group)

Fore Street, Glasgow (£1.5million)
Hypostyle Architects (Client: Whiteinch + Scotstoun Housing Association)

Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education, Alloa Campus (£12.3million)
Reiach and Hall Architects (Client: Forth Valley College of Further and Higher Education)

Grödians, Lerwick (£4.5million)      
Richard Gibson Architects (Client: Hjatland Housing Association)

Heathfield Primary School, Ayr (£3.7million)       
Holmes Miller (Client: South Ayrshire Council)

Heriot's Centre for Sport & Exercise, Edinburgh (contract value not for publication)
LDN Architects LLP (Client George Heriot’s Trust)

House at Borreraig, Skye (£470k)   
Dualchas Building Design (Client: not for publication)

Linlithgow Burgh Halls (£3.2million)
Malcolm Fraser Architects (Client: West Lothian Council)

Loch Leven Bird Hide, Fife (£34k including foundations)
Icosis Architects (Client: The Rural Access Committee for Kinross-shire)

Model 'D' House, Insch (£140k exclusive of siteworks)
Gokay Deveci Chartered Architect (Client: Sylvan Stuart Ltd. Timber Engineers and Log Construction)

Scotsman Steps, Edinburgh (£0.5million)
McGregor Bowes + Haworth Tompkins (Client: Fruitmarket Gallery, City of Edinburgh Council, Edinburgh World Heritage)

Wester Coates House, Edinburgh (contract value not for publication)
Zone Architects (Client: not for publication)

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