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7 Aug 2014
Graffiti art has come of age in our urban centres in recent times with the rise of Banksy et al elevating the medium to...
7 Aug 2014
It seems a long time ago now but way back in 2009 I reviewed an exhibition on contemporary Norwegian design at Aberdeen...
7 Aug 2014
The 2014 Scottish Design Awards commenced on a melancholy note, with attendees paying their respects to the emergency...
7 Aug 2014
GREEN 2014, an evolving series of exhibitions and events undertaken before, during and after the Commonwealth Games, is...
18 Aug 2009
It may be the ultimate seal of approval. Certainly, it is quite a feather in the cap for the apprentice to have the master...
29 Oct 2014
Talk of independence may finally have been put to rest in Scotland but where Alex Salmond failed AHR has succeeded....
29 Oct 2014
The urge to stoop and sneak a peek through the keyhole of a locked door or to press a face to a window and squint at the...
29 Oct 2014
Here we quiz six leading engineers for their take on the year so far and ask how the profession can better cater for a...
29 Oct 2014
The Fountainbridge project represents an opportunity to deliver a long term civic investment in placemaking in Edinburgh,...
29 Oct 2014
Gray’s School of Art is an Aberdeen institution. There aren’t any other buildings like it in the city,...
29 Oct 2014
With the debate over Scottish independence now settled for ‘a generation’ (probably) discussion is now turning...
29 Oct 2014
Maggie’s Centres have come a long way since the first unit designed by Richard Murphy opened in Edinburgh in 1996....
29 Oct 2014
In the early nineties, I was commissioned by the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University to...
29 Oct 2014
As the first tenants take stock of their £90m surroundings at the heart of the Laurieston Transformational...
29 Oct 2014
The representation of the sublime in art is the attempt to express the unknowable. Scotland specifically has had a special...
15 Jan 2015
If the arts are a spectrum of creativity then where precisely upon this landscape should art and architecture lie?...
15 Jan 2015
Of all the nominations for this year’s Carbuncle Awards few had the resonance of Scotland’s third city,...
15 Jan 2015
With six finalists now shortlisted for the Finnish capital’s museum of art and design some of the hundreds who...
15 Jan 2015
Glasgow’s architecture may be hidden in plain sight for those who pound its streets with heads down but its interior...
15 Jan 2015
As the clocks go back and nights draw in it becomes starkly apparent that architecture in a northern climate exists as...
15 Jan 2015
We are future oriented: we care most about where we are going. Yet part of us still takes an interest in where we came...
15 Jan 2015
News thatwork to transform Dunoon Burgh Hall into a new cultural hub is set to proceed in January came as an early...
15 Jan 2015
Nevis Ski Range is one of Scotland’s major destinations for both mountain sports and general tourism. Located...
15 Jan 2015
There may be a mere 45 miles separating Glasgow from Edinburgh but in terms of architecture, social issues and even sport...
15 Jan 2015
Edinburgh University is at the forefront of a construction bonanza across the city, seemingly determined to...
19 Jan 2015
2014 has been a momentous year on playing fields and debating halls across the land but it is in our construction sites...
15 Apr 2015
Technoheads have long dreamed of an elusive future full of jet packs and interplanetary travel but today’s...
15 Apr 2015
Many of us dream of building our own home but few have the skills or the opportunity to do so, for Richard Murphy however...
15 Apr 2015
As a building type, granaries lie at the root of Modern architecture. Ever since Reyner Banham published A Concrete...
15 Apr 2015
A spate of controversial planning decisions in recent months; from Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries to Aberdeen’s...
15 Apr 2015
Aberdeen’s #DesignPopUp, third in a series of temporary product showcases around the country, has brought together a...
15 Apr 2015
Flushed with the success of their their Advocates Close development, a surprise Doolan winner, the Chris Stewart Group is...
15 Apr 2015
Edinburgh may be no stranger to rambunctious planning battles but proposals to transform the much admired Royal High...
15 Apr 2015
Sauchiehall Street may be one of Glasgow’s most famous streets but it hasn’t been spared the ravages of a...
15 Apr 2015
Continued reorganization of health services has brought with it a bonanza for architects as GPs migrate from single...
15 Apr 2015
Avid theatre-goers will avow that Glasgow’s Theatre Royal was never the city’s grandest institution, from the...
15 Apr 2015
Edinburgh College of Art’s move to launch a digital archive of British tower blocks, curated by Miles Glendinning...
23 Apr 2015
9 Jul 2015
The story begins many years ago in Linwood when a new mother, Lesley Compston, decided to set up a mother and toddler...
9 Jul 2015
The internationally renowned St Peter’s Seminary, Kilmahew, has become a byword for decay since its closure in the...
9 Jul 2015
The impending arrival of consumer virtual reality (VR) is reinvigorating the visualisation business as designers get their...
15 Jul 2015
Whilst many traditionalists are aghast at the usurping of pencil and paper by stylus and graphics tablet the digital tools...
15 Jul 2015
The Byker Wall is a kilometre long and one flat deep. At the time it was built, the redevelopment was one of the...
15 Jul 2015
A global arms race for recognition is seeing many architects choosing to disregard the subtle charms of background...
15 Jul 2015
The worlds of regeneration and education exist in different political and professional bubbles and rarely overlap....
15 Jul 2015
The planning system may be caught between a rock and a hard place as it seeks to bridge the competing interests of...
17 Sep 2015
Birmingham City Library is now the largest public library in the UK, and also “the largest public cultural space in...
19 Oct 2015
There is one undeniable, universal fact – we are all getting older! There is nothing new in that but, due to the...
19 Oct 2015
The looming arrival of Scotland Build 2015 comes at an auspicious time for the construction industry, which is presently...
19 Oct 2015
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV’s) are currently flying high as mass production brings a technology which seemed far...
