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18 Dec 2008 - No comments
A proposed redesign and refurbishment programme at Dumfries Infirmary have advanced with the appointment of bam as business partner.
The £120m redevelopment plans constitute a logistical...
18 Dec 2008 - No comments
A planning application has been submitted to Gateshead Borough Council by Red Box Design for a £13m design facility, Design Centre North.
The artistic hub is expected to drive growth in...
18 Dec 2008 - No comments
Princes Street could become a no go area for traffic in the New Year to allow tram tracks to be laid.
The city’s premier retail destination could be connected to the tram network by November...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
Glasgow City Mission are in process of relocating from their current premises to an under construction facility on Brown Street.
The flit is being financed courtesy of the god of capitalism,...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
Fresh office accommodation in the form of Westport is now taking shape at the hands of Kenmore Property Group and Michael Laird Architects.
The property occupies a prominent position at the...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
Hotel du Vin have opened a bistro and hotel within that most inauspicious of abodes, a former lunatic asylum.
Present thinking on care for the insane is to provide treatment in a more...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
The highest honour that the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) can bestow, an Honourary Fellowship, has been awarded to Sunand Prasad, President of the Royal Institute of British...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
Jurys Inn are to proceed with a second Glasgow hotel, despite a damning verdict on their first venture by architecture pundits.
Occupying a waterfront spot at Lancefield Quay, within sight of...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
The AJ are reporting that Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop Architects (gm+ad) have been hit by their second major blow in as many weeks with news that Glasgow City Council have pulled the plug on the...
19 Dec 2008 - No comments
Gareth Hoskins has spoken out in the AJ over his decision to pick up the commission to design Trump’s notorious golf resort, regarded as toxic by environmental campaigners.
A widely...
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
A unique lifestyle boutique in the south side of Glasgow has metamorphosed from the cocoon of a traditional ground floor tenement unit and spread its wings at 8 Skirving Street, Glasgow....
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
The Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen has approved a revised estates masterplan from Building Design Partnership, signaling the start of a period of development which will transform the Garthdee...
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
Crackers or what?
The holiday season is upon us, so hopefully this week’s Wrap will help fill those dull moments between the office party and the familial bonhomie of Xmas day. Of course, the...
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
A competition launched by Norwich Union, with the support of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), has been inundated by a flood of entries.
With land scarcity forcing continual...
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
Irreverent Glaswegian comedian Frankie Boyle has got in on the Carbuncles act with his latest stand up show.
In Frankie Boyle Live at the Apollo, the ginger impresario lampoons last years...
22 Dec 2008 - No comments
Aurora Hotels are set to bring some northern light to Larbert thanks to the enterprise of managing director Steven McLeod. The Stirling based hotelier has lodged plans with Falkirk council for a...
23 Dec 2008 - No comments
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust… old mobile phones to bricks and mortar… a new church in the village of Bankfoot, Perthshire is attempting to call god by ringing in the changes as a green...
23 Dec 2008 - No comments
It’s a big, bad world out there, and particularly at Christmas. Can it be a coincidence that Santa dresses in red and is an anagram of Satan?
According to the Royal Society for the...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
Esk Properties and Blackrock are seeking backers for Glasgow’s latest boutique hotel development, The Queen Margaret.
Occupying former Beeb premises in the heart of the west end the 85 bed...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
Glasgow’s hotel bonanza shows no sign of abating with Northern Ireland keen to grab a slice of the action in the form of Benmore Developments. The developer is seeking to rehabilitate an...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
Glasgow Housing Association are bringing in the New Year in explosive fashion with a slew of further demolitions, maintaining the bumper harvest of 2008.
First in the firing line will be...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
An abandoned Leeds music hall has hit the right note after a partnership between Building Design Partnership (BDP) and Opera North restored the Victorian venue to full sonic splendour.
The...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
Scotland’s SNP administration is resuming attempts to bridge a funding gap between Westminster and Holyrood for a new Forth crossing.
An earlier request for a cash advance has already...
5 Jan 2009 - No comments
Get thee behind me Santa
So, the holiday’s over, you’ve e-bayed the dud gifts and have been consuming Beecham’s powders in industrial quantities in the forlorn hope that you could...
6 Jan 2009 - No comments
Hazelwood School’s innovative learning environment is garnering international recognition for Glaswegian architectural practice, Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop.
The school has been recognised...
6 Jan 2009 - No comments
Ferry operator Stena Line are seeking permission to carry out preparatory work on a £70m port facility at Old House Point in the south of Scotland, near Cairnryan. This facility would allow the...
6 Jan 2009 - No comments
Politicians keen to push energy efficiency have been left as red faced as their offices heat signatures after missing energy efficiency targets.
Newly launched Energy Performance...
6 Jan 2009 - No comments
The fortieth anniversary of the closure of passenger rail services between Edinburgh and the Borders is being acknowledged today.
Locals have much to celebrate with a timetable now...
7 Jan 2009 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council have awarded planning consent for the granite city’s latest hotel.
The 100 bed hotel occupies the former Esslemont and Macintosh department store buildings which are...
7 Jan 2009 - No comments
Architecture + Design Scotland (ADS) have unveiled their Library of Urban Design Online (LUDO).
LUDO is not that familiar game of humble chance but rather an online repository that...
7 Jan 2009 - No comments
Peter Ramsay-Dawber, construction management expert at Nottingham Trent University, has been invited to become a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
Ramsay-Dawber...
7 Jan 2009 - No comments
The Scottish Design Awards 2009 are building up a head of steam as organisers launch a new category of Architect/Architect Team of the Year.
This award will be much coveted by the profession...
8 Jan 2009 - No comments
Britain’s ravaged retail sector looks set to send a slew of towns down as spend thrift shoppers guard their pennies.
Clydebank, Cumbernauld, Kilmarnock, Kirkintilloch and Rutherglen have...
8 Jan 2009 - No comments
Striking visions of a surreal juxtaposition of present, future and the outlandish have been published by artist Will Beeslaar.
Commissioned by Nord for the Six Cities Design Festival, the...
8 Jan 2009 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council are looking to build up their land bank by snaffling up land on the cheap from hard hit developers.
Councillors are scrabbling to take advantage of falling land values...
8 Jan 2009 - No comments
Demolition experts JCJ Group are engaged in the systematic dismantling of Lynedoch Court, an 18 storey tower block in Greenock.
The block is being comprehensively soft stripped with the...
8 Jan 2009 - No comments
Culture Secretary Andy Burnham has announced that cities across the Britain will be eligible to bid for the title of UK capital of culture in a new competition, envisioned to run every four years...
8 Jan 2009 - No comments
Aedas’s Bothwell Plaza has been given a drubbing by design watchdog Architecture + Design Scotland (ADS), following the latest planning application from European Development Company (Hotels) Ltd....
9 Jan 2009 - No comments
The legacy of Glasgow 1999 has been called into question by a Newsnight investigation commemorating the tenth anniversary of the architectural extravaganza.
The Newsnight team quoted an...
9 Jan 2009 - No comments
A development of affordable housing in Garnethill, Glasgow, has painted a sorry picture for local artists.
What was once tawdry scrub has sprouted a steel frame of eight floors in height,...
9 Jan 2009 - No comments
Multicolours, an interactive light installation in condemned multi storeys at Red Road, has been shelved due to time restraints and financial problems.
Funding from The Scottish Arts Council...
9 Jan 2009 - No comments
Deramore have gone back to basics with the design of their £40m hotel on Princes Street, in response to vociferous opprobrium leveled against them by heritage and design groups.
This angst...
12 Jan 2009 - No comments
Edinburgh Royal Infirmary is to welcome new neighbours in the form of a self contained village of sheltered apartments, health centre and care home from developer Boskabelle.
The development...
13 Jan 2009 - No comments
Insulated from reality part II
Last week I happened to mention the UK government’s double standards on energy consumption, and the fact that while the report I’d been reading applied only...
13 Jan 2009 - No comments
The Selfridges will they, won't they, saga rumbles on with the retail brand publicly admitting what many considered blindingly obvious - there are no immediate plans to develop the fabled store in...
14 Jan 2009 - No comments
Plans to transform the former Odeon Cinema into an office and leisure complex, dubbed the Paramount building, have fallen by the wayside with news that developer Duddingston House Properties has...
14 Jan 2009 - No comments
Fettes College, an independent boarding and day school, has opened a new Preparatory School and Rifle Range.
These facilities were designed by Page/Park architects with Thomas and Adamson...
15 Jan 2009 - No comments
Arup, the global design and engineering group, is to shed nearly one in ten of its British workforce. The firm is the latest company to fall foul of the worldwide financial meltdown.
In...
16 Jan 2009 - No comments
The world famous Bauhaus design school is launching an international design project using Cumbernauld as their subject.
The notorious new town will play host to an expedition from the school...
16 Jan 2009 - No comments
A planned new town at Tornagrain near Inverness could welcome some 5,000 new homes, five schools and parkland to cater for the expansion of Europe's fastest growing city.
Located on the A96...
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