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17 Sep 2009 - No comments
Richard Murphy Architects have been invited by the Biggar Theatre Workshop to investigate ways of transforming the towns historic Corn Exchange.
Funding of £400k has been received from the...
17 Sep 2009 - No comments
Speirs and Major Associates have switched on a new lighting scheme at Devonshire Square in London.
An estate of 12 grade-II listed buildings, once used by the East India Company to store silks...
17 Sep 2009 - No comments
Urban Eye, a London based charity, are spearheading a campaign to revive downtrodden streets by breaking up the expansive plain flat surfaces that attract graffiti.
Conventional approaches of...
17 Sep 2009 - No comments
As part of Doors Open Day Trongate 103 will be hosting talk on Saturday September 19th at 11am when a representative of the architects Elder & Cannon will be on hand to deliver a free illustrated...
17 Sep 2009 - No comments
Trump International are celebrating the halfway milestone of a masterplan being prepared by Gareth Hoskins Architects to transform 500 hectares of land on the Aberdeenshire coast into a...
17 Sep 2009 - No comments
Glasgow Airport rail link has been abandoned by the SNP government due to a need to constrain public spending in a draft budget for 2010-11.
It means that planned construction of a spur off...
18 Sep 2009 - No comments
As part of an architectural investigation into sustainable growth in developing countries the Architectural Association School have designed, fabricated and transported a mobile cinema to the...
18 Sep 2009 - No comments
A 3D curve sketching system that captures the intuitive appeal of pen and paper has been developed by the Department of Computer Science at Toronto University.
Using touch screen technology...
18 Sep 2009 - No comments
Reports from Prospect’s sister title, The Drum , that Curious Digital is nearing administration have prompted Douglas McConville, managing director of Curious Design & Architecture (CDA) to...
18 Sep 2009 - No comments
The Heritage Lottery Fund has awarded a grant of almost £800k to re-establish Renfrew Town Hall into a community venue and museum.
A range of photographs and objects relating to local...
18 Sep 2009 - No comments
Maxim, at £330m and 756k sq/ft said to be the largest private sector office park in the UK, has been formally handed over to Tritax group this week with high profile political and sporting figures...
18 Sep 2009 - No comments
Benmore, a Northern Irish developer, are expected to confirm a deal with InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) to build a five star hotel above Manchester’s Theatre Royal.
Under the terms of...
21 Sep 2009 - No comments
Birmingham is launching a Business Improvement District (BID) on the city’s Broad Street, in an attempt to prise infrastructure and commercial investment to the area.
This is the second BID...
21 Sep 2009 - No comments
To celebrate Yo! Sushi bringing their famous conveyor belt dining experience to House of Fraser, Glasgow on September 23 the Japanese inspired eaterie is holding an exclusive pre-launch evening...
21 Sep 2009 - No comments
Tudor warship the Mary Rose is set to be housed within a £35m Portsmouth museum designed by Wilkinson Eyre architects.
Henry VIII’s flagship has been dry docked since 1982 when it was...
21 Sep 2009 - No comments
An architectural tour with a difference is on offer at this weeks Merchant City Festival with an irreverent stroll through Glasgow’s historic landscapes.
Architectural historian and comedian...
22 Sep 2009 - No comments
A new identity for Prospect is slowly taking shape, Urban Realm.
Employing a geometric grid of panels with prominence to the ‘u’ and ‘r’ elements each component part can be manoeuvred...
22 Sep 2009 - No comments
Birmingham is feeling the effects of the property crash with a glut of unsold apartments lying empty, it emerging that developers are even struggling to offload them to the city council for...
22 Sep 2009 - No comments
Puppet Animation and the Puppet Lab are pulling the strings of the UK's largest puppet – a 25ft blue figure dubbed the Big Man.
The distracting display is product of a £600k Arts Council...
22 Sep 2009 - No comments
Transport Scotland have announced their winter rail timetable which reveals a doubling in frequency of services between Glasgow and Edinburgh through introduction of an hourly service between...
22 Sep 2009 - No comments
Demolition has commenced on Top Gear presenter James May’s recently constructed Lego villa after a bill of £50k was quoted to dismantle and reassemble the plastic pile.
Legoland had been...
22 Sep 2009 - No comments
Foster + Partners are to investigate building technologies that could be applied to future human space exploration, notably the adaption of lunar regolith as an in situ building material.
The...
23 Sep 2009 - No comments
A succession of Britain’s biggest building companies have been levied a series of fines totalling £129m after being found guilty of rigging bids for contracts by the Office of Fair Trading...
23 Sep 2009 - No comments
Aedas’s in house Research and Development team are introducing new computational tools for modelling the urban environment, intended to allow investors, planners, architects and designers to...
23 Sep 2009 - No comments
The Scottish Parliament with all its many failings elicits much inflamed passion from those not normally want to wade into an architectural debate.
Recent doubts as to the long term viability...
23 Sep 2009 - No comments
Malcolm Fraser has spoken of the need to attribute a meaningful definition to the term “green building” at a recent business lunch hosted by Thrive.
Singling out our built environment as...
24 Sep 2009 - No comments
Tanfield, a £20m refurbishment of the former Standard Life building, has been officially unveiled by city leaders and politicians in Edinburgh.
Some 192k sq/ft of open plan floor space is...
25 Sep 2009 - No comments
In celebration of the centenary year of Mackintosh’s Glasgow School of Art (GSA) building the BBC have produced a one off documentary to tell the story of its genesis, history and future,...
25 Sep 2009 - No comments
Sir David Rowlands, Chairman of High Speed 2 (HS2), has indicated that plans for a new £34bn high speed rail network will include Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Three strategic corridors are being...
25 Sep 2009 - No comments
Radical cuts in services are being planned by Glasgow City Council as public services enter a period of austerity.
Heavy borrowing over recent years is unsustainable in the medium to long term...
25 Sep 2009 - No comments
For those yet to see Trongate 103 in the flesh Urban realm's sister publication the Drum have put together a video synopsis of the delights that await you in Glasgow's newest and freshest cultural...
25 Sep 2009 - No comments
RMJM have been granted an exemption to St Petersburg’s strict height limits by the governor of the city, paving the way to construct Europe’s tallest tower.
The £1.5bn Okhta Tower will...
29 Sep 2009 - No comments
Situated behind an unassuming shop front in Edinburgh's Grassmarket, Buro Happold (with LDN architects and Quantity Surveyor Morham and Brotchie) have carved out a TARDIS like open plan office...
29 Sep 2009 - No comments
Gareth Hoskins Architects have been commissioned to design a new swimming pool and community facility in Helensburgh to replace an existing 1970’s pool building in the recreational town on the...
29 Sep 2009 - No comments
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has confirmed a package of grants worth £13m for All Souls Church in Bolton, the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich Stowe landscape Gardens in Buckinghamshire...
29 Sep 2009 - No comments
Urban Arts Projects (UAP) has completed a 60m high ‘Breakwater Beacon’, centrepiece of a $7bn research institution for the King Abdullah University for Science & Technology (KAUST), overlooking...
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
RMJM’s Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in Singapore, a collaboration between Duke University in the USA and National University of Singapore, has been officially opened by the country’s Prime...
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
A husband and wife team behind architecture and design company JAMstudio have won the Socially Responsible Company of the Year Award at the Northern Star Business Awards.
Run by Grampian...
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
Brian Inkster of Inksters Solicitors and Nicola Walls an architect with Page\Park are heading to Argentina this November to assist in the construction of homes for families living in poverty....
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
WRAP have employed specialist compost at Polkemmet, a former open cast coalmine, to illustrate how to produce a soil blend that is conducive to grass growth without recourse to ferrying shale to...
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
With a drop in expenditure on social housing from £524.9m to £351.9m by the Scottish Government on the cards in a draft budget for 2010-11 the public sector looks set to experience the sort of...
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
Ambitious plans have been put forward for the Central Scotland Green Network, a long term strategy for the rehabilitation of some 2,500 square miles of land into a network of woodland, green space,...
30 Sep 2009 - No comments
An expected bidding war to build a new Forth bridge mustered only a whimper as a mere two bidders were prepared to shoulder potential unexpected cost increased on the £2.3bn fixed price bridge...
1 Oct 2009 - No comments
Will Alsop, fresh from a recent departure from Archial to 'spend more time painting', has announced he is in fact jumping ship to RMJM to head a management reorganisation in London aimed at...
1 Oct 2009 - No comments
Plans for a waste to energy incinerator in Perth by Grundon Waste Management are stoking controversy from hot under the collar locals calling for the plans to be extinguished forthwith after...
1 Oct 2009 - No comments
Construction work is underway for a Fish Veterinary Aquaria for Marine Scotland at Torry in Aberdeen. Designed by Architon LLP the three storey building will become home to the Scottish...
2 Oct 2009 - No comments
Not so square Australian architect Shane Hendriks of Advanced Building Constructions has concocted a unique box of tricks in Port Elliot, South Australia, after rolling the dice on a three bed...
2 Oct 2009 - No comments
Derek Souter, director of Union Street Properties (USP), weary of an 11 year long struggle to breathe life into the crumbling Alexander “Greek” Thomson Egyptian Halls has declared: “If this...
2 Oct 2009 - No comments
Ayrshire Housing and Lawrence McPherson Associates have submitted plans for a new housing development in the village of Tarbolton, Ayrshire.
Comprising two, three and four bed ‘lifetime’...
2 Oct 2009 - No comments
Glasgow City Council (GCC) is seeking a moratorium on further out of town retail parks and extensions in the face of mounting evidence that the recession and a glut of recent mall space have...
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