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History St Andrew’s Metropolitan Cathedral is a beguiling and paradoxical building. Situated in bustling Clyde Street, its interior is tranquil and serene. Constructed on the edge of the River Clyde, the building now seems detached from...

A garden room extension to form a generous kitchen / eating / living space that connects the post war bungalow to the garden and collects the evening sunlight. The day to day functioning of the house was enhanced with a new laundry room and...

On the 7th of July 2011, Blochairn Place was officially opened as a brand new development of 95 flats, 6 houses and an office. This was Glasgow's largest housing regeneration project in 2010 and transforms a previously derelict corner of the East...

Marlaw is a new private house within Pollokshields Conservation Area, a ‘garden suburb’ with some of Glasgow’s finest Victorian villas.  The site was formerly the orchard of the Grade A listed building adjacent and remained...

This is a replacement hall facility which is in the garden grounds of the listed St Columbas Church. The proposal was to be subservient to the main church and to reflect its images having small gables and the large glazed entrance giving a...

a449 LTD were appointed to reconfigure the ground floor of a Victorian terrace in Joppa, Edinburgh. The radical approach was to completely remove the side and rear walls at ground floor level to allow the building to extend to the boundary and...

a449 LTD were appointed to reconfigure an existing farm cottage near Haddington, East Lothian to provide a more appropriate living space suitable for the client and his young family.The existing building comprised a single storey farmer’s...

Reverting the front elevation to a 'shopfront', adding a new pitched roof and utilising neglected space over a dropped ceiling, meant that natural light could once again be restored to a building which had remained in near darkness since its...

Cliffside site with panoramic views of the Firth of Clyde. House was to be designed to be energy efficient, low maintenance and contemporary with flexible inside / outside living spaces.

This house has been inspired by the blackhouse, but abstracted in to modern architecture. The client inherited the croft from his mother, and he wanted to build a home that connected with the landscape and the local heritage. It is a house...

The aspiration for the development was high quality flats for rent, with a high standard of energy efficiency; respectful of the scale and proximity of the existing neighbours, being careful to maintain their privacy in avoiding overlooking their...

Fore Street is a unique development, which adopts a novel approach towards the design of urban housing in Scotland. The site sits within an existing Victorian tenement perimeter block, which was previously occupied by two buildings which had...

The original club house was built in 1924 and further extended in the 60’s and early 70’s. The building, however has deteriorated over time and was in desperate need of repair and re-condition. The design incorporates 3 extensions...

The practice was appointed to design an innovative, low energy, eco house in the gorunds of an existing Victorian villa in Currie, Edinburgh. The house is super-insulated, air-tight, minimises cold-bridging and incorporates a sensible mix of...

Simpson & Brown were appointed to alter and extend the existing B-listed 1771 church building to provide new church hall facilities. The building was designed and constructed to sit lightly on the earth and is supported on pile foundations...