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30 Aug 2019 - No comments
John Gilbert Architects have announced the retirement of practice founder and RIAS fellow John Gilbert, completing a succession plan first put into place in 2012.
Gilbert founded the practice...
30 Aug 2019 - No comments
City of Edinburgh planners has voted to wave through a design by Michael Laird Architects for a statement curved glass office block in Edinburgh’s Fountainbridge district.
Exchange Place 4...
30 Aug 2019 - No comments
Mosaic Architecture + Design have filed detailed plans for the conversion of a department store on Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street dating from 1929 to form a 112-bedroom budget hotel and...
30 Aug 2019 - No comments
Shettleston Housing Association has taken possession of Glasgow’s first and Scotland’s tallest Passivhaus homes as part of a redevelopment of Carntyne Old Parish Church on Shettleston Road....
29 Aug 2019 - No comments
An Edinburgh nursery is set to make way for three conjoined townhouses under planning proposals brought forward by Block9 Architects for the Plewlands Conservation Area.
The Headstart Nursery...
29 Aug 2019 - No comments
A B-listed International-style Borders school is to be repurposed as extra care apartments under proposals for the partial demolition and extension of the historic 1939 Reid and Forbes designed...
29 Aug 2019 - No comments
Renfrewshire Council has released the first images of the radical reimagining of Paisley Museum envisaged by AL_A ahead of its reopening in 2022.
Work is already underway to expand gallery...
29 Aug 2019 - No comments
A £140m office block designed by Cooper Cromar architects for Glasgow’s Argyle Street has been handed the all-clear from planners, enabling the project to begin construction.
Spearheaded...
28 Aug 2019 - No comments
A ruined C-listed church hall in Wishaw is to make way for six new-build flats in a new planning submission made to North Lanarkshire Council.
This will necessitate the demolition of the hall...
28 Aug 2019 - No comments
Work has begun to deliver enabling infrastructure for a new manufacturing district spearheaded by Renfrewshire Council on 52-hectares of land adjacent to Glasgow Airport.
The Advanced...
28 Aug 2019 - No comments
A delayed speculative office block in Glasgow city centre is set to finally rise above ground with the appointment of Bowmer & Kirkland to deliver the 10-storey build in a contract worth £23m....
27 Aug 2019 - No comments
Health secretary Jeane Freeman has looked ahead to the completion of the Golden Jubilee Eye Hospital on a site visit to mark a year to go until the facility opens to patients in the summer of...
27 Aug 2019 - No comments
North Ayrshire Council has brought forward plans to erect 71 harbourside homes on land formerly occupied by the Magnum Leisure Centre as part of the ‘ Great Harbour ’ masterplan.
Part of...
27 Aug 2019 - No comments
Gorbals Housing Association has moved into its new head office at 200 Crown Street following its official opening.
Occupying land formerly occupied by the Sandiefield Road tower blocks the...
26 Aug 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen’s B-listed Trinity Church is in line for a makeover at the hands of Wilson + Gunn Architects following the submission of plans for a new entrance vestibule and landscaped square to...
26 Aug 2019 - No comments
Borders Council has awarded planning consent to a 'gateway' mixed-use development near Tweedbank railway station comprising a 71-bed hotel, petrol station and drive-through coffee shop....
23 Aug 2019 - No comments
Scotland’s creative community have gathered at the 22nd Scottish Design Awards, to recognise the best new buildings of 2019 but in a surprise twist that unity extended to the awards themselves...
22 Aug 2019 - No comments
Pert-Bruce Construction and housebuilder the FM Group have broken ground on a 450-home development at the former Sunnyside Royal Hospital , Montrose.
The former psychiatric hospital is...
22 Aug 2019 - No comments
Newly formed Fraser / Livingstone Architects have revealed their first residential proposal within their home city with plans for a sensitive geometric addition to Edinburgh’s Southside....
22 Aug 2019 - No comments
The Scotland + Venice partnership is inviting creative teams to devise proposals for the 2020 Venice architecture exhibition via an open tender .
Biennale Architettura in 2020 is centred on...
22 Aug 2019 - No comments
The University of the West of Scotland have taken possession of new science labs providing laboratory space for researchers operating in the fields of sports science, biochemistry, physiotherapy...
21 Aug 2019 - No comments
Mast Architects have followed up their plans to build 186 affordable homes in Govanhill, Glasgow, with proposals to erect a children’s residential home .
Commissioned by the Link Group the...
21 Aug 2019 - No comments
North Ayrshire Council has progressed plans to position Irvine Harbourside and the Ardeer Peninsula as a tourism destination by partnering with landowner and harbour authority the NPL Group to...
21 Aug 2019 - No comments
The Highland Council has given the final go-ahead to a riverside art installation in Inverness comprising curving stone walls situated on opposing banks of the River Ness.
Work had stalled on...
21 Aug 2019 - No comments
Susan Stephen Architects have brought forward a revised bid to erect a 134-bed student accommodation block in the Edinburgh suburb of Slateford, superseding an earlier 105-bed consent by...
21 Aug 2019 - No comments
Block 9 Architects have come forward with plans to replace a former warehouse in Newcraighall, Edinburgh, with a four-storey apartment block to meet increased demand for housing.
GL Flooring...
20 Aug 2019 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has presented plans for an additional 850 homes Cowlairs, extending efforts to develop the Forth & Clyde Canal corrido r with a range of new park and wetlands.
The...
20 Aug 2019 - No comments
BSD Associates acting on behalf of EK Trend have indicated their intent to convert a disused Paisley office block into hotel accommodation under new plans filed with Renfrewshire Council.
The...
20 Aug 2019 - No comments
Acciona, the contractor behind energy from waste facility at East Tullos, Aberdeen, has further illuminated its plans with an updated lighting design statement.
The Spanish contractor proposes...
20 Aug 2019 - No comments
An ornate entrance point to Inverness Victorian Market has received £43k in funding from Inverness Townscape Heritage Project and the Inverness Common Good Fund to preserve the Academy Street...
19 Aug 2019 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council has granted planning consent for the conversion of a 1970s office block originally designed by Morris & Steedman to form a 157-bedroom hotel.
Proposals were...
19 Aug 2019 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has awarded planning consent to Craighead Properties for the erection of 388 homes on brownfield land bounded by Cathcart and Caledonia Roads.
Taking the form of five...
19 Aug 2019 - No comments
An unprepossessing Highland Council depot, originally built as an air defence command centre during the 1950s, has begun a new lease of life as a museum.
Officially opened on 9 July by Gairloch...
19 Aug 2019 - No comments
The future is looking brighter for the C-listed former Strathclyde Public School at Carstairs Street, Glasgow, after permission was granted for residential conversion – together with a...
16 Aug 2019 - No comments
A formal bid has been made to build a bespoke private home and artist’s studio within the Kilmacolm conservation area following the submission of plans to Inverclyde Council by the newly...
16 Aug 2019 - No comments
Proposals have been brought forward for the conversion of a former science and medical school building at Hamilton Business Park to form 266 student beds .
The building is currently owned by...
15 Aug 2019 - No comments
The Westhill Shopping Centre in Aberdeenshire is in line for a refresh with the submission of plans for a full refurbishment by St James’s Place Property Unit Trust.
Identified as a town...
15 Aug 2019 - No comments
A historic town centre in North Ayrshire is set for significant change with an application to part-demolish the Royal Hotel in proposals submitted for the Dalry Conservation Area.
McMillan &...
15 Aug 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has conducted its first tour of a new community campus in Tillydrone ahead of its official opening on 23 August.
This offered locals their first taste of the new...
15 Aug 2019 - No comments
Thomas Johnstone has begun a programme of refurbishment works at the former Hanover House to provide 35,000sq/ft of office accommodation.
Rebranded as The Ink Building the project will see...
14 Aug 2019 - No comments
South Lanarkshire Council has recommended detailed planning permission be granted to a multi-level golf driving range in Rutherglen on derelict land off junction 2 of the M74.
Topgolf...
14 Aug 2019 - No comments
NHS Grampian has progressed plans to modernise the delivery of primary and community care services in Aberdeen with the submission of plans by jmarchitects for The Denburn Health & Care Centre ....
14 Aug 2019 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has opened its newest school, a 356-pupil primary serving Dalmarnock’s Commonwealth Village .
Designed in-house by the council’s project management and design team...
13 Aug 2019 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland is seeking an architect-led design team for a £1.1m learning hub in the village of Balerno, Edinburgh.
Situated within the 35-acre estate of...
13 Aug 2019 - No comments
Keppie has followed up their education work on the Orkney Islands by bringing patient care ahead of the curve via the £64m Balfour Hospital .
Faced with an exposed location the hospital was...
13 Aug 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has instructed CHAP Group to build 369 homes at the former Summerhill Academy site on the Lang Stracht following a competitive tendering process.
Enabling works will...
12 Aug 2019 - No comments
Glasgow Housing Association has taken possession of 45 affordable homes on the site of a former primary school at Batson Street , Govanhill.
Victoria Primary School was demolished in 2017,...
12 Aug 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has marked the ceremonial commencement of works to transform Union Terrace Gardens ahead of work getting underway in earnest next month.
The £25.7m project seeks to...
9 Aug 2019 - No comments
Marina operator Yacht Havens Group is to expand into the hotel sector with plans to open a £1.2m hotel in Troon, South Ayrshire, by early next year.
The Salt House Hotel will overlook yacht...
9 Aug 2019 - No comments
Sanctuary Housing is to proceed with the second phase of their Donside Urban Village development in Aberdeen in the form of revised plans for a block of 23 affordable flats designed by Halliday...
9 Aug 2019 - No comments
The University of St Andrews is to progress with a plan b in its efforts to create a large student accommodation complex in the town after its preferred Sheppard Robson scheme was thrown out by...
8 Aug 2019 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council have formally unveiled The Event Complex Aberdeen (TECA), said to be the largest new entertainment complex in Europe.
With a main arena capacity of 12,500 the centre...
8 Aug 2019 - No comments
Developers behind Shawfair , near Danderhall, have sold off 6.5 acres of land to Stewart Milne Homes - the sixth housebuilder to sign-up for the project.
Assuming planning consent is...
8 Aug 2019 - No comments
Housebuilder CALA has begun work on a development of 203 homes on vacant ground at Pacific Quay after acquiring the development plot from Stewart Milne .
Comprising a mix of flats and...
7 Aug 2019 - No comments
The developer behind plans to build 19 flats in Glasgow’s west end has appealed after planners objected to the demolition of a ‘neutral’ unlisted building because it ‘would be detrimental...
7 Aug 2019 - No comments
HFD has released updated visualisations of a flagship 313,000sq/ft office block at 177 Bothwell Street , the second and final phase of Bothwell Exchange.
Designed by Sheppard Robson Architects...
6 Aug 2019 - No comments
Morrison Construction is set to break ground on a £27.7m additional support needs school next to Auchenharvie Academy in Stevenston, North Ayrshire, in the coming weeks.
Designed by Norr...
6 Aug 2019 - No comments
West Lothian Council has given its approval to a new primary school and early years nursery serving the community of Calderwood, East Calder, enabling a start to be made on-site as early as spring...
6 Aug 2019 - No comments
McKernan Homes have brought forward plans to build 24 flats on the site of a demolished 1920s Picture Hall in Dennistoun, Glasgow.
Stretching from Meadowpark Street through to Marne Street the...
5 Aug 2019 - No comments
Bancon Construction has been named preferred contractor to deliver the second phase of Wasps Studios conversion of the B-listed Midmills building to form a ‘creative industries’ wing at the...
2 Aug 2019 - No comments
The Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society has launched an open architectural competition for a pair of contemporary house designs based on Mackintosh’s own ‘ideal’ artists residences first...
2 Aug 2019 - No comments
Rural Design Architects have taken the lead on a proposed new office development at Portree on the Isle of Skye.
The 278sq/m premises have been commissioned by local accountancy firm Campbell...
2 Aug 2019 - No comments
Royal Dornoch Golf Club has lodged plans for a new twin-gabled clubhouse with Highland Council as a replacement for the 1909 original.
Taking its cue from the current clubhouse the plans...
1 Aug 2019 - No comments
Developer Lovell Homes has teamed up with Rural Stirling Housing Association to build 50 new social houses at Claish Farm in Callandar.
Situated within Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National...
1 Aug 2019 - No comments
CALA Homes have obtained partial planning consent from the City of Edinburgh Council to convert and extend the C-listed former Royal Blind School at Craigmillar Park for residential use after...
1 Aug 2019 - No comments
City of Edinburgh Council planners has waved through an application to redevelop the Royal Botanic Garden, including the creation of a new signature glasshouse, as part of efforts to revitalise...
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