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24 Apr 2012
With Urban Realm’s Carbuncle award newly ensconced upon Linwood’s mantelpiece we decided to pay a return visit...
24 Apr 2012
That is certainly the message I’ve been getting speaking to those in the industry who’ve already lived through...
24 Apr 2012
Kericho , south west Kenya, is approximately 250 km from Nairobi along the busy Nakuru - Kisumu highway and accessed via...
24 Apr 2012
It has been four years since Sheppard Robson opened their Glasgow base, four of the toughest years for the architectural...
24 Apr 2012
We have seen with Kericho Cathedral (pg 64) that organised religion is thriving in Africa. In Britain however it is a...
13 Jul 2012
Urban Realm, in association with Woodhouse, is proud to reveal the top ten practices named in our recent poll of the...
19 Jul 2012
Fore Street, is more than the sum of its parts. Modest in scale, slight of budget and almost completely hidden from view,...
30 Jul 2012
More on the discussion later. As for the pavilion itself, in a pluralistic society one might expect the more successful...
2 Aug 2012
George Clarke’s passion for the inherent quality of Britain’s historic building stock is infectious - and it...
4 Aug 2012
Govan’s boldest and brashest new housing development, an £11.9m gateway build distinguished by a sequence of...
4 Aug 2012
Having a critical understanding of the dynamics of form combined with an ability to challenge the meaning of things is...
4 Aug 2012
Visualisation is perhaps the most powerful of these techniques, as ably demonstrated by graduate Sam Wilson via his...
4 Aug 2012
If planning and architecture are two sides of the same coin, then you might say that placemaking is the coin itself. The...
21 Aug 2012
Historic Scotland’s recent decision to list four examples of Glenrothes’ extensive collection of 140...
21 Aug 2012
When primary industry dies, the urban fabric surrounding it atrophies. We know this from the iron and steelworks which...
21 Aug 2012
Architects and developers are becoming increasingly aware of the watery threats hanging above our heads but how can they...
11 Oct 2012
So it came about that in Edinburgh August 2012 ten thousand people travelled to Arthur’s Seat to watch a light show...
11 Oct 2012
Of all the construction industry professions it is the role of the engineer which is perhaps the most fundamental. It is...
24 Oct 2012
Development can be a fraught affair at the best of times, but in a city like Edinburgh the odds stacked against...
24 Oct 2012
With Linwood town centre, recipient of last year’s Carbuncle award, now firmly in the throes of long-delayed...
24 Oct 2012
The story of the post-industrial city is a well-worn one, from Glasgow to Detroit the tale of cities challenged by...
25 Oct 2012
If you draw a line on a map of the USA that connects Miami to Seattle and then another from Boston to San Diego they would...
25 Oct 2012
I firmly believe that a new appreciation of historic art and architecture would do much to inspire new thinking in...
25 Oct 2012
Backcourts, alleys and secondary spaces often exist as a sort of parallel universe straddling the primary...
30 Oct 2012
We begin the tale close at hand with a look at two towns which have drawn the short straw from globalisation; Newmilns and...
30 Oct 2012
Russia’s announcement of the winners of an international design competition to masterplan a new urban expansion of...
30 Oct 2012
Comprehensive redevelopment is back in fashion as a quick fix to seemingly intractable social and economic problems in...
30 Oct 2012
Despite the growing appeal of cheap supermarket drinks most of us are still too familiar with the inside of a pub. A...
30 Oct 2012
Improvements to Glasgow City Centre
Sheppard Robson Glasgow suggests what...
Sheppard Robson Glasgow suggests what...
16 Jan 2013
The results make interesting reading, not least for design supremo Wayne Hemingway, who commented that the results show...
16 Jan 2013
Glasgow City Council’s decision to mount a design competition to revive the historic George Square hasn’t been...
16 Jan 2013
Enoch Powell was a hellfire and brimstone orator, a politician of a different stripe to those who reach Parliament...
16 Jan 2013
Gartloch Hospital’s crumbling towers have been an evocative feature of the eastern outskirts of Glasgow for over 100...
30 Jan 2013
We’ve all watched Grand Designs from the comfort of the sofa but what’s it like at the sharp end? Urban Realm...
30 Jan 2013
Two Ibrox tower blocks have been on the receiving end of the UK’s tallest demolition crane, a 67m long mechanical...
30 Jan 2013
It’s taken a full year but finally the Queen has gotten round to opening Aberdeen’s Sir Duncan Rice Library,...
30 Jan 2013
The Olympic spirit may have swept the east end of London this summer but in the east end of Glasgow the Commonwealth Games...
30 Jan 2013
If libraries are traditionally places of quiet and solitude then the University of Edinburgh’s Noreen & Kenneth...
30 Jan 2013
Of all the issues raised in this year’s Carbuncles campaign perhaps the most divisive has been that of wind...
18 Apr 2013
Edinburgh’s Old Town is defined by the narrow vennels which wind their way between towering tenements off the Royal...
18 Apr 2013
North Glasgow has long been the poor relation of the city, losing out to the more fashionable suburbs to the west and...
18 Apr 2013
The recent stooshie in George Square attests to the fact that architects are increasingly finding themselves playing the...
18 Apr 2013
With previous Carbuncle winners Denny and Linwood benefitting from some much needed cosmetic surgery the Carbuncles team...
18 Apr 2013
St Albert’s Catholic Chaplaincy, Edinburgh branch of The Order of Preachers, has been providing an independent...
18 Apr 2013
Andrés Duany, the celebrity urbanist, visiting Edinburgh, exposed the poverty at the heart of the...
18 Apr 2013
The Commonwealth Games Village in Glasgow’s East End is a project that both Alistair and I architecturally led with...
18 Apr 2013
The first rule about SEDA Green Drinks is to tell everybody about Green Drinks and the word will be spread on the last...
18 Apr 2013
The question of “Do amimals have souls?” seems to have regularly arisen as a theological debate from the early...
