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13 Feb 2009 - No comments
RMJM have taken local inspiration for North Glasgow College, an educational facility spearheading the ongoing regeneration of the North Glasgow community.   Paul Stallan, European Design...
13 Feb 2009 - No comments
Stirling Management Centre have announced that Gillian Boyd, a final year textiles student at Edinburgh College of Art, has won a competition to design an interior look for the Centre. The...
16 Feb 2009 - No comments
Holmes Architects have flitted to new premises on Infirmary Street, Edinburgh, designed by Malcolm Fraser Architects.  The rooftop suite occupies a former Baths building which is now home to a mix...
16 Feb 2009 - No comments
Another day, another architecture minister So farewell then Linda Fabiani. Having survived two years in the job, you were the longest lasting of Scotland’s architecture ministers. You took to...
16 Feb 2009 - No comments
The Scottish Government’s announcement that £60m is to be allocated to a Town Centre Regeneration Fund has ignited hope across Scotland that concrete change can be effected across a raft of...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
Home improvement retailer Wickes is embarking on a nationwide hunt to root out buildings across the country which are deserving of a “Building with Pride” accolade. Celebrity builder Tommy...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
easyHotel, a new low cost hotel concept from the ubiquitous orange Stelios Haji-Ioannou, looks set to debut on one Hill St, Glasgow. The franchise offers budget accommodation in city centre...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
Glasgow’s pre-eminent public space, George Square, has long been saddled with questionable design decisions, notably paving with low quality red asphalt and an abortive “Café in the Square”...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
Ministers have approved plans for a hydro-electric power scheme at Inverar in North Perthshire. The plant, operated by Inverar Hydro Ltd, is projected to provide 1.2 megawatts of power, enough...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
Scottish Borders Council have invited tenders for a two storey, two classroom extension of precast concrete to the grade B listed Kelso High School.  The rooftop space will be faced in...
17 Feb 2009 - No comments
Big Digital have gift wrapped a tenement gable in Linthouse in a late Christmas present to the area, this follows a recent storm in which the previous canvas caught the gale like a giant sail,...
18 Feb 2009 - No comments
Mike Russell, Scotland’s newly anointed Minister for Culture, settled into the ministerial hot seat today as host of an open forum which gave Scotland’s artistic and cultural community the...
18 Feb 2009 - No comments
JM Architects have secured planning approval for the new Hillhead Primary School on Gibson Street, Glasgow. Located within the heart of the west end conservation area, the school will...
19 Feb 2009 - No comments
Dunning Primary School has recently been refurbished and extended by Perth & Kinross Council (PKC), delivering a new-build school extension in conjunction with retention of an existing Victorian...
19 Feb 2009 - No comments
Pollokshields Conservation Area in Glasgow is well regarded as a particularly fine example of the “garden suburb” vision, sporting numerous bespoke villas.  Lawlor House, the newest addition...
20 Feb 2009 - No comments
Reid Jubb Brown Architecture have received planning permission for a multi-million pound 60 room hotel, retail and residential complex in the Sunniside area of Sunderland for Vision Developments....
20 Feb 2009 - No comments
Signarama have risen to a challenge set by East Dunbartonshire Council and designed, manufactured and installed a sign to mark the start of Scotland’s most famous walk, “The West Highland...
20 Feb 2009 - No comments
Pioneering work to bring renewable energy installations to listed, multi occupancy buildings begins this week with the installation of solar panels on the roofs of seven B listed Georgian social...
20 Feb 2009 - No comments
Against a backdrop of dwindling flocks and a secularising society one congregation is daring to buck the trend. St Paul’s & St George’s Episcopal Church in Edinburgh has an expanding and...
20 Feb 2009 - No comments
Edinburgh's Princes Street tram works are on indefinate hiatus a day before work was due to start on the new line.  Despite the eleventh hour blow the famous arterial will still close from 0500 on...
23 Feb 2009 - No comments
Robinson Low Francis have been appointed by six of Scotland’s public sector organisations to provide a range of construction and property-related services including project management of the new...
23 Feb 2009 - No comments
A famous 150 year old stable complex in the North of Glasgow, which housed the horses used for pulling barges along the Forth and Clyde canal, is to undergo a major transformation into a community...
23 Feb 2009 - No comments
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) are to invest £3bn developing its renewable energy portfolio and improving distribution networks. The recession busting sum will ensure the creation of...
23 Feb 2009 - No comments
You and me and rain on the roof I made brief reference to the Burrell Museum last week, the context being the City of Glasgow Council’s regular complaint that National Galleries in...
26 Feb 2009 - No comments
The St James Shopping Centre, long reviled as Edinburgh’s most maladjusted building, is to be demolished in favour of an £850m city quarter. City councillors voted to banish the concrete...
26 Feb 2009 - No comments
Tinto Primary School is to be rebuilt by Anderson Bell + Christie for Glasgow City Council Education Services as a community hub for the Pollokshaws district of Glasgow. The beefed up school...
26 Feb 2009 - No comments
Glum news is being transmitted from FM Developments Edinburgh HQ, communicating news that administrators have been called in to oversee subsidiaries at the trouble hit developer. Failure of...
26 Feb 2009 - No comments
Anger has been expressed over Glasgow City Council’s plan to relocate travellers and show people from a site in Glasgow’s east end to a former school in Dalton, Cambuslang. The...
26 Feb 2009 - No comments
V&A director Mark Jones has promulgated the notion of a northern outpost for the venerable South Kensington institution, which has designs on broadening the scope of its collections across Britain....
27 Feb 2009 - No comments
Thomas and Adamson have been appointed as project managers for a £37m refurbishment of the Royal Commonwealth Pool by Edinburgh City Council.  A job of particular import to the film as Frank...
27 Feb 2009 - No comments
Strathclyde Police are investing £5m in a new police station to serve the expanding communities of Renfrew, Braehead, Erskine, Inchinnan, Bishopton, and Glasgow Airport.   Officers aim to...
27 Feb 2009 - No comments
Progress Property Development (PPD) are in negotiations with Glasgow City Council to construct an athletes village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games on Springfield Road, Glasgow. PPD have formed...
2 Mar 2009 - No comments
Europe’s largest data centre moved a step nearer today with news that Lockerbie Data Centres Ltd have organised a second exhibition of their plans for an £800m international centre in I.T....
2 Mar 2009 - No comments
Shed Productions have been announced as the latest tenant for The Hub at Pacific Quay.  Developed by Downtown Space the property was designed by Cooper Cromar.   The production company are...
2 Mar 2009 - No comments
Who dares wins It’s maybe a sign of the times, but too many architects seem to have too much time on their hands. I’m referring to the letters page in this week’s BD in which almost all...
2 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Roslin Institute are to build a new research centre at their Easter Bush campus in a collocation project involving the Scottish Agricultural College and the Royal Veterinary School of the...
3 Mar 2009 - No comments
Judging for the Scottish Design Awards 2009 has concluded, bringing to heady conclusion a marathon process of perusal, debate and comparison as our esteemed team of judges poured over an array of...
3 Mar 2009 - No comments
Outline planning permission has been granted by Glasgow City Council granted for an additional 330,000sqft of office space at the Skypark business park, including a substantial phased office block...
3 Mar 2009 - No comments
The latest product of a nationwide hotel boom is taking shape on prime waterfront property at the banks of the Water of Leith, Edinburgh. Developers insist that with the capital awash with...
4 Mar 2009 - No comments
New hotel provision from Greystones Ltd is proposed to augment Glasgow's exponentially mushrooming stock on Jamaica Street, hot on the heels of Staybridge. Located at a long standing gap site of...
4 Mar 2009 - No comments
Scotland’s newest architecture practice, 7N, has been born from adversity, the product of a fragmented parent, Make, as they migrate back to southern homelands. Today’s challenging and...
4 Mar 2009 - No comments
Plans for a substantial Marks and Spencer store in Easterhouse have been put on ice. It had been proposed to expand the existing retail offer at Glasgow Fort with an additional 175,000sq/ft of...
5 Mar 2009 - No comments
An official title has been put forward for Architecture Scotlands regeneration conference, to be held in the Rothes Hall, Glenrothes, on Monday April 27th. Saving Down Towns is a unique event...
5 Mar 2009 - No comments
Aberdeen based workplace design experts, Space Solutions, have clinched potentially their biggest ever contract after being appointed to a unique Framework Agreement with commercial landlord,...
5 Mar 2009 - No comments
HLM Architects, one of the largest practices in Scotland, is the top place to work in architecture and construction, according to a Sunday Times poll: The Top 100 Best Small Companies to Work for...
5 Mar 2009 - No comments
LEGO® UK have revealed fresh research which sheds light on how children’s future career paths can be elicited in formative years through play preferences - with architects having preferred...
6 Mar 2009 - No comments
Smith Scott Mullan Associates are groggily awaking this morning having held a successful jazz evening at their Edinburgh base. With free beer, nibbles and champers on offer the event was...
6 Mar 2009 - No comments
MCM Architects recent demise hasn’t been universally mourned within the industry it seems.  News of the quiet bust has filtered through to a frustrated John McManus of MCM Consultants who has...
6 Mar 2009 - No comments
Mareel, the Lerwick based multimedia centre, will start on site within the next couple of months after Shetland Arts Council agreed a contract figure of £10m with local contractor DITT. The...
6 Mar 2009 - No comments
Glasgow’s most famous shipyard, Fairfields, is set fair for a residential makeover after detailed planning permission was recommended for approval by Glasgow City Council. Designed by...

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