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6 Mar 2009 - No comments
Holmes have announced that the first two phases of their residential redevelopment of Hawkhead Hospital, Paisley, have completed. Comprising a three storey block with 18 flats and a two storey...
9 Mar 2009 - No comments
Purcell Miller Tritton are cocking a snook at the national air of pessimism by pressing ahead with a new Edinburgh base. An impressive champagne reception at Edinburgh’s New Club, a very...
9 Mar 2009 - No comments
Lion Chambers on Hope Street, Glasgow, must rank as one of the turn of the century's greatest architectural confections. A prototypical skyscraper of singularly eclectic taste built, house of...
10 Mar 2009 - No comments
Apologies before we begin – it’s a slightly truncated Wrap this week due to the file evaporating from my laptop before I had the chance to send it to the architecturescotland website. Although...
10 Mar 2009 - No comments
Cranhill water tower will be bathed in light once more when a revamped lighting scheme for the Glaswegian landmark is switched on by Lord Provost Bob Winter in a push button ceremony scheduled for...
10 Mar 2009 - No comments
Artist Donald Urquhart is well versed in the disciplines of drawing and painting, diversifying these core skills in recent years with commissions in both landscape and architectural contexts....
10 Mar 2009 - No comments
Highland Galvanizers have announced that they will be sponsoring the upcoming “Saving Down Towns” conference in Glenrothes in a bid to showcase the transformative potential of galvanizing....
11 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Wrap’s latest bout of fire and brimstone has not been well received within the corridors of Architecture + Design Scotland.   David Hutchison, Communications and Research Manager at...
11 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Scottish Design Awards have entered the end game now with conclusion of a positively exhaustive judging process. Our panel of experts wheedled and dealed over the course of a two day stay...
11 Mar 2009 - No comments
Lindsay house, in the centre of Bathgate, is in line for an ambitious makeover to provide a library, community facilities and council offices. Staff are due to decant the poor quality...
11 Mar 2009 - No comments
A team from Keppie surrendered a day off to paint a Glasgow flat in a bid to brighten up the lives of youngsters at a Barnardo's home. Barnardo's help young people make a smooth transition to...
11 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Wrap has hit back against Architecture + Design Scotland after having its knuckles rapped in a tempestuous spat over an Annual Report. The publication was thrust into the spotlight after...
12 Mar 2009 - No comments
Thomas and Adamson, working as cost consultants and project managers on behalf of Unicorn Property Group for its 100,000 sq.ft office development, Dundee One, have secured The Scottish Police...
12 Mar 2009 - No comments
A major tragedy in central Glasgow underlines why you should never move house by post. Architecture Scotland opened a cardboard box which should have contained an entry for a prestigious...
12 Mar 2009 - No comments
Kilmacolm boasts some of Scotland's best known examples of Arts & Crafts design, including the much celebrated Windy Hill by Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Theis tradition is continued at a new housing...
13 Mar 2009 - No comments
Years spent hanging out of handily located office windows, yelling at workers to wear their hardhats, will come to an end this July when Aedas celebrate arrival of their latest baby, Cuprum....
13 Mar 2009 - No comments
Alfred Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) have won a design competition to refurbish Liverpool’s Royal Court Theatre The AHMM team beat off stiff competition from Burrell Foley Fischer, Nord,...
16 Mar 2009 - No comments
South side residents are lending vociferous support to substantial £12.5m plans to re-open the Edwardian Govanhill Baths. Local campaign group, Govanhill Baths Community Trust, are behind...
16 Mar 2009 - No comments
Integrated Environmental Solutions (IES) have published a graphic demonstration of their free plug in to Google SketchUp, the popular 3D design tool.    A false colour slide depicts daylight...
16 Mar 2009 - No comments
The financial tsunami sweeping global capitalism has left Leith land values all washed up. The local market, buoyed until recently by the buy to let market, was flooded by waves of one and two...
16 Mar 2009 - No comments
Tram workers excavating Princes Street have uncovered three mysterious underground chambers, thought to date from the 18th century. The vaulted spaces, constructed of brick and stone, were...
17 Mar 2009 - No comments
Public funding – mind the gap What is it about simple economics that supporters of PFI/PPP just don’t get? Politicians are particularly susceptible to the idea of getting buildings and...
17 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Scottish Government have devised a new means of skirting and reducing the frequent planning rows which can flare up on the back of contentious planning applications. Ministers believe the...
17 Mar 2009 - No comments
There’s no place like home, or is there?  One Glaswegian retiree, Michael Slavin, looks set to find out when he embarks upon an epic journey retracing the footsteps of émigrés past when he...
17 Mar 2009 - No comments
hurleypalmerflatt have purchased ATCO Consulting, a building services firm based in Glasgow.   The expansion drive grants hurleypalmerflatt access to ATCO’s expertise in building services...
17 Mar 2009 - No comments
Mumford & Wood, manufacturers of premium quality timber windows and doorsets, have introduced a product design guide featuring both Conservation™ and Contemporary™ products.   The product...
18 Mar 2009 - No comments
Cunard have officially unveiled their new Queen Elizabeth ocean liner, the second largest Cunard vessel ever to float.   Costed at a whopping £365m the vessel harks back to the romance of...
18 Mar 2009 - No comments
A “treasured” mining museum has struck gold after striking a rich seam of Scottish Government benefaction. £1.3m in grant funding is to be provided to blunt the hanging axe of closure...
18 Mar 2009 - No comments
Demolition is now underway at the infamous Owen Luder designed “Get Carter” car park in Gateshead.  Film fans the world over were wowed by Michael Cain’s antics in the unfinished...
19 Mar 2009 - No comments
Cranhill’s eye catching water tower has taken on a new complexion of late, brushing aside the cloak of darkness in a glowing repertoire of colour. By day the spindly concrete behemoth lurks...
19 Mar 2009 - No comments
The provisional results are in for Architecture Scotland’s inaugural LEGO challenge, set in motion at the Scottish Design Awards nominations event last night. Voting was brisk as...
19 Mar 2009 - No comments
Nominations for the Scottish Design Awards (SDA) 2009 have been revealed at an official launch shindig at the Old Fruitmarket, Candleriggs, viewable here in full.   Scotland's largest...
19 Mar 2009 - No comments
Google’s long awaited Street View Service has finally arrived in the UK, allowing British users access to galleries of photographic images from across our major urban areas. Using Google’s...
19 Mar 2009 - No comments
A 70ft section of Glasgow’s Great Eastern Hotel headed south today when a corner wall collapsed. Contractor CCG issued a statement advising that the building has now been stabilised and the...
20 Mar 2009 - No comments
Fresh from taking “Scotland to the world” at last summer’s Venice Biennale Nick Barley, Director of the Lighthouse, now wishes to bring “the world to Scotland.”  Dovetailing with that...
20 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Glasgow School of Art (GSA) has instigated an international competition to select the team who will design a major new teaching space opposite the Mackintosh Building in Garnethill, Glasgow. ...
20 Mar 2009 - No comments
Edinburgh Council officials are set to block plans for Premier Property Group’s £40m Ratho Station development. It is understood that planners are unhappy with the loss of greenbelt land...
20 Mar 2009 - No comments
Lee Boyd Architects are celebrating the successful completion of their Wallace Monument visitor centre, a £500k redevelopment of an existing outdated reception building for Stirling District...
20 Mar 2009 - No comments
Staff at housing maintenance and service provider, Connaught, faced some glum news earlier this week with the announcement of major redundancies, the latest in a worsening overall employment...
23 Mar 2009 - No comments
Glasgow as a city of contrast, grit and bustle lends itself well to the medium of photography, a fact demonstrated by the proliferation of photographers and artists from across the city....
23 Mar 2009 - No comments
The Clydebank crane, centrepiece of Clydebank Re-built’s efforts to re-imagine an ex industrial waterfront, has scooped two important gongs at the Civic Trust Awards, notably the inaugural...
23 Mar 2009 - No comments
What ever your view of the Carbuncle Awards there is no doubt they serve to highlight the fact that too many of Scotland's town's are failing. So now, as well as identifing what has gone...
23 Mar 2009 - No comments
BAM Construction Ltd have been appointed by NHS Lothian for its £150m Children’s Hospital. Set to open in late 2012, hospital authorities are to take advantage of a poor economy by driving...
23 Mar 2009 - No comments
Deramore have unveiled fresh imagery for a significant redevelopment of 121-123 Princes Street, designed by Archial the proposal stretches all the way through to Rose Street Lane. Premier Inn...
23 Mar 2009 - No comments
Mountgrange Capital is being administrated by Deloitte after Bank of Scotland withdrew its support for Caltongate, Edinburgh and Phoenix Park, Glasgow. The blow comes despite both schemes...
24 Mar 2009 - No comments
Surveying the damage I couldn’t actually discover from the RICS website how many surveyors there are in the UK (no doubt the figure is there but, as usual, not obvious if you haven’t got...
24 Mar 2009 - No comments
PBN Property plan to renovate existing retail provision within the Savoy Centre and extend upon it with a mixed use hotel/commercial tower on the corner of Renfrew and Hope St's. Built atop a...
30 Mar 2009 - No comments
An off the beaten track lane, housing a row of small traders could be set for the chop after plans were put forward by Ruthven Property Partnership to demolish a series of shops and lock ups in...
30 Mar 2009 - No comments
Property marketing specialistas Five Square have unveiled an online showcase for the £20m refurbishment of Tanfield House, the former Standard Life headquarters in Edinburgh opposite the Botanic...
30 Mar 2009 - No comments
The UK’s first “Bug” tourist attraction is taking shape at the Albert Docks, Liverpool, courtesy of construction and property consultants Thomas and Adamson, developed by Rogers Group...

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