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16 Jan 2009 - No comments
Duddingston House Properties Director Bruce Hare has reacted with incredulity to press reports in the Evening Times stating that the Paramount Building is to be scrapped, telling Architecture...
16 Jan 2009 - No comments
A knight in shining armour has emerged to take on the former Templar Lodge Hotel on Gullane High Street after Ryden and Premier Property Group (PPG) rode into town. Both developers are setting...
16 Jan 2009 - No comments
A £900m framework to design and procure hospitals and healthcare facilities over the next four years has been announced by NHS Scotland. Amongst the successful practices to make it onto this...
19 Jan 2009 - No comments
The ABC Regal Picture House in Paisley is to be demolished in favour of landscaped parkland, part of a public realm initiative from Renfrewshire Council. The Regal structure had demonstrated...
19 Jan 2009 - No comments
Edinburgh based Ian Springford Architects have announced completion of their extension to the Apex City of London Hotel. The hotel expansion is accommodated across two new extensions. A...
19 Jan 2009 - No comments
Business leaders have called for the privatisation or mutualisation of Scottish Water to finance a projected £2bn bill for a new Forth road bridge. The option was raised by CBI Scotland...
19 Jan 2009 - No comments
The road to Inverness begins with single step The original schedule for completing the Highland Housing Fair – sorry, Scotland’s Housing Expo – may have been blown out of the water, but...
21 Jan 2009 - No comments
HLM Architects have decanted to new larger premises in Glasgow at Ailsa Court, 121 West Regent Street. The practice previously operated from premises at Riverside House on Clyde Street. The 25...
21 Jan 2009 - No comments
Communities Secretary Hazel Blears has called in a retail led regeneration package for Lancaster, on the advice of English Heritage (EH). The scheme was previously approved by Lancaster City...
21 Jan 2009 - No comments
Planning approval has been granted by North Lanarkshire Council for a Community Hub in Gowkthrapple. Collective Architecture, working closely with Garrion People’s Co-operative (GPC), have...
21 Jan 2009 - No comments
A flood tolerant house design has been unveiled by Cre8 Architecture, utilising the ingenuity of nature’s water lilies to solve the problems of man. The elaborate concepts were launched as...
22 Jan 2009 - No comments
The University of Strathclyde is to undertake “a thorough risk analysis” of all major capital projects which have not yet been committed to.   Strathclyde are taking stock of the...
23 Jan 2009 - No comments
Allan Murray Architects and Whiteburn Projects have waltzed past planning with their SoCo masterplan, winning unanimous spirited approval from councillors. The only qualms expressed by members...
23 Jan 2009 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council have approved plans to create a new town centre for Craigmillar from PARC, the organisation overseeing the areas regeneration. The proposals, put together by Broadway...
26 Jan 2009 - No comments
Plans for a £100m new town on the outskirts of Edinburgh have been thrown into disarray after the lead developer, Miller Group, exercised their “get out” clause. Miller feels that...
26 Jan 2009 - No comments
Gold Standard It’s been a few weeks since we last looked at Millennium Dome II - sorry the London Olympics – and the rich trove of political euphemisms it continues to generate over the...
26 Jan 2009 - No comments
West Lothian Civic Centre, taking shape in Livingstone town centre, has taken delivery of 400 bespoke doors in an open and shut case for architectural door specialist, McTavish Ramsay. BDP are...
27 Jan 2009 - No comments
Motherwell, Glenrothes and New Cummnock have emerged as the front-runners in this year’s Carbuncle Awards, the prize that identifies Scotland’s most dismal town. Members of the public are now...
27 Jan 2009 - No comments
Alan Dunlop of Murray & Dunlop has resigned from the Prospect editorial board in protest at Glasgow Harbour’s nomination in the worst planning category of this year’s Carbuncle Awards....
27 Jan 2009 - No comments
Clarion, a 10 storey, 75,000sq ft office development in Glasgow city centre has topped out in a special ceremony, offering prospective tenants a taste of the high life. The customary ritual is...
28 Jan 2009 - No comments
The North Face, in tandem with Tiso, a supplier of outdoor clothing and equipment,  are set to unveil a flagship “super shop” on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street this week.  The 2,500 sq ft outlet...
28 Jan 2009 - No comments
Buro Happold have published their “Ten year book”, a celebration of a decades work throughout Scotland and Northern Europe. The volume highlights 50 multi-disciplinary engineering projects...
29 Jan 2009 - No comments
Glenrothes has been named the most dismal place in Scotland in the 2009 Carbuncles Awards, beating off stiff competition from Motherwell in Lanarkshire and New Cumnock in Ayrshire. The...
29 Jan 2009 - No comments
The Carbuncle Awards 2009 climaxed today under appropriately leaden skies in the Kingdom of Fife’s newest town, Glenrothes. The Fife New Town has long languished under the shadow of its...
30 Jan 2009 - No comments
Reports suggest that MCM architects have gone into interim liquidation, this follows the departure of at least one leading member of staff. The Edinburgh Gazette , a forum for public legal...
30 Jan 2009 - No comments
StudioLR have undertaken a wayfinding project in environmental graphic design to provide signage, information panels, public art, and donor recognition boards to contribute to an understanding of...
30 Jan 2009 - No comments
Cooper Cromar have scored an A rating, Scotland’s first ever, in the new Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating system. Solail House, Strathclyde Business Park and the Altum Building,...
2 Feb 2009 - No comments
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese in Scotland have commenced fundraising for a full refurbishment and extension of St Andrew’s cathedral. St Andrew's Cathedral will be recipient to a phased...
2 Feb 2009 - No comments
Former Clyde shipyard chief executive, Vic Emery, has been appointed Chair of the New Glasgow Campus project. Mr Emery takes the lead role in the £300 + million project to create a...
2 Feb 2009 - No comments
Funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund has secured the future of Maryhill Burgh Halls.   A grant of £1m will restore the Halls and adjacent former police station, transforming both into a...
3 Feb 2009 - No comments
Does ‘partnership’ mean risk is equally shared? It’s a funny old world. Our world-saving Prime Minister has not been slow to berate the banks for over-involving themselves in complex...
3 Feb 2009 - No comments
Surface ID have transformed a former pawnbrokers into a brand new Italian tapas-style restaurant in the heart of Glasgow’s West End, La Vita Spuntini, offering a new style of dining for the...
4 Feb 2009 - No comments
Smith Scott Mullan Associates have completed their restoration of the Grade A listed City Chambers in Edinburgh.   Notable refurbishment has been carried out upon the main Council chamber...
4 Feb 2009 - No comments
Rugby legend and renowned architect David Leslie has returned to work for the first time - two years after an accident that doctors feared would leave him paralysed. The father-of-three fell...
4 Feb 2009 - No comments
Lee Boyd Architects extension to an existing visitor facility at the Wallace Monument is nearing completion.  The reception pavilion will house the Legends Coffee house, sporting dramatic vistas...
5 Feb 2009 - No comments
Places for People have received planning permission for 34 new affordable homes in Craigmillar, following an extensive process of community consultation. The site borders the Thistle...
5 Feb 2009 - No comments
Govan is to rake in the millions from multiple new housing projects, taking the residential investment pipeline for the burgh to a respectable £66m. This tally was achieved after numerous...
5 Feb 2009 - No comments
A project to replace high performance, single glazed timber windows with double glazed products has been Highly Commended by the judges of the BWF’s inaugural Project of the Year Award 2008....
6 Feb 2009 - No comments
The curtain has been raised on Scotland’s oldest purpose built cinema, The Hippodrome, as it reopens to the public following a £2.15m restoration programme.   The unique A-listed round...
6 Feb 2009 - No comments
New Campus Glasgow Ltd has finalised the shortlist of five architect-led design teams who will develop a £300 million integrated campus over two sites for the 50,000 students and 2,000 staff of...
9 Feb 2009 - No comments
RMJM and Frasers Property, the development arm of Singapore conglomerate Fraser & Neave, have submitted a recession busting plan for 327 flats for a site bounded by Carrick and Brown Streets on the...
9 Feb 2009 - No comments
A planning application has been submitted for a new hotel at St Enoch Square, Glasgow, by North Ltd and Farrell & Clark. The development will require the demolition of a semi derelict...
9 Feb 2009 - No comments
Groundhog retention As far as I can see, this time of year is notable for only two things – Groundhog Day and the Architects Registration Board’s annual plunder of £86 from my bank...
9 Feb 2009 - No comments
Paul Mugnaioni, a former chief of Glasgow District Council’s housing department turned property developer, has died suddenly at the age of 58. From 1981 Mugnaioni was at the helm of...
9 Feb 2009 - No comments
The director of the British Museum, Neil McGregor, has called upon the Scottish Government to pull the purse strings to support Glasgow’s art galleries. Presently Glasgow is responsible for...
10 Feb 2009 - No comments
3DReid have been appointed to the first hybrid PPP procurement project in Scotland by Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (Western Isles Council) and private sector partner, Faithful and Gould. This...
10 Feb 2009 - No comments
It’s third time lucky for Bothwell Plaza as the tallest planned commercial building in Glasgow successfully secured planning permission at the third time of asking. The 60,000 square...
11 Feb 2009 - No comments
Seven members of Make’s former Edinburgh studio formed their own practice, 7N Architects, at the beginning of January. Led by Ewan Anderson the practice has already secured several long term...
12 Feb 2009 - No comments
Newly formed 7N Architects didn't have long to wait for their first major success, unanimous planning committee support for Westfield. Westfield sports193 new affordable homes for Dunedin...
13 Feb 2009 - No comments
A conference is to be held in Glasgow to explore opportunities for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.   In attendance will be Tom Bain, director of operations for Glasgow 2014; Ian Hooper, director...

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