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21 Dec 2009 - No comments
Doubts have been cast upon Land Securities ambitious plan to double the size of Buchanan Galleries.
An innovative financial model called tax increment finance is being looked at where money...
21 Dec 2009 - No comments
The British Airports Authority (BAA) has won an appeal against a Competition Commission (CC) order to sell three of its seven UK airports.
Gatwick, Stansted and either Glasgow or Edinburgh...
21 Dec 2009 - No comments
A weekend of travel chaos on Eurotunnel, brought about by “fluffy” snowfall, is continuing with closure of a shuttle car service to new arrivals.
This has left upwards of 1,000 passengers...
21 Dec 2009 - No comments
The road is now clear for the stalled Aberdeen bypass to start up after approval was granted by Scottish ministers for the road link.
Ministers and local politicians were convinced by industry...
22 Dec 2009 - No comments
A trio of luxury school buildings are about to be unwrapped in Edinburgh this January 11 as replacement buildings for the city’s Tynecastle, St Augustine’s and Forrester High Schools....
22 Dec 2009 - No comments
Glasgow’s winter time activities in George Square, currently dubbed with the catch all moniker of Winterfest, are to be renamed with the word Christmas featuring prominently.
The move will...
22 Dec 2009 - No comments
Coatbridge’s Time Capsule leisure centre is to undergo a £5m upgrade as local councillors seek to impress a new generation of fun seekers.
The 18 year old facility has become something of a...
22 Dec 2009 - No comments
Snow and ice have been contributing to traffic chaos across the country with the Met Office issuing warnings of heavy snowfall in Aberdeenshire, Lothian & Borders, Strathclyde and Dumfries &...
22 Dec 2009 - No comments
Council owned buildings on Edinburgh’s Caltongate site could be given a temporary lease of life under plans currently being drawn up, including the C listed Canongate Ventures....
23 Dec 2009 - No comments
Dundee is to make fresh calls on Network Rail for an upgrade of its un-aesthetic rail halt after fresh passenger statistics revealed it to be the ninth busiest in Scotland.
Local politicians...
23 Dec 2009 - No comments
Reiach and Hall have been appointed to develop the National Nuclear Archive, a £15m facility in Wick, Caithness.
This will host digital, paper and photographic records primarily concerning...
23 Dec 2009 - No comments
Plans to demolish a B listed Romanesque style church in Dundee have stoked controversy with a split in opinion between Historic Scotland and those who wish the site redeveloped.
Parishioners...
23 Dec 2009 - No comments
Three supermarket chains are at loggerheads over development rights for new stores in the Angus town of Kirriemuir.
This battle has intensified after the Community Council chairman stated that...
23 Dec 2009 - No comments
A call has been made for more rail freight to be instated on underused tracks between Perth and Inverness in a bid to ease congestion on the A9, described as Scotland’s most deadly road.
MSP...
5 Jan 2010 - No comments
An incoming Conservative government would create a “supermarket ombudsman” to resolve disputes between retailers and suppliers.
It is intended that the post would enforce better labelling...
5 Jan 2010 - No comments
A slice of Africa is to be transplanted to the north of England courtesy of a 34m tall biodome at Chester Zoo.
Designed by Proctor and Matthews architects the £90m, EFTE clad structure could...
5 Jan 2010 - No comments
The world’s tallest building, the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, has been officially opened by the states ruler, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum.
Rising to a dizzying 828m the tower was built...
5 Jan 2010 - No comments
Construction work is to commence this Wednesday on Glasgow’s National Indoor Sports Arena and Sir Chris Hoy Velodrome.
Designed by 3DReid architects and built by Sir Robert McAlpine the...
5 Jan 2010 - No comments
Photographer Ben Cooper has photographed Glasgow’s under construction transport museum and emerged with a preview of the under construction interior beneath that undulating canopy....
5 Jan 2010 - No comments
Snow Architects have been appointed to create a 102 bedroom hotel, multi storey car park and 11,500sq/ft of retail space within the Ropewalks conservation district of Liverpool.
Occupying the...
6 Jan 2010 - No comments
Scottish Government ministers are set to approve a new power transmission line from Beauly, west of Inverness to Denny near Falkirk, subject to conditions.
Comprising some 600 pylons rising to...
6 Jan 2010 - No comments
Plans have been lodged for two separate developments on Edinburgh’s Princes Street by Primark and Parcotel.
The work would see an easyHotel complete with bright orange signage and a...
6 Jan 2010 - No comments
A cross party group of twenty MPs and peers have called on all parties to commit to cap the UK population at 70 million.
Projections indicate that the number of UK residents could exceed 70m...
6 Jan 2010 - No comments
Labour has expressed fears that recession will lead to delays and a “watering down” of the Scottish Crime Campus.
Located in Gartcosh, North Lanarkshire, the £65m facility has been...
6 Jan 2010 - No comments
East Kilbride is on course to tap into a wave of hotel mania with plans for a 98 bedroom edifice from the G1 Group, designed by gm+ad architects.
A function room, bar and restaurant will...
7 Jan 2010 - No comments
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Historic Scotland (HS) have awarded funding to five churches and one cathedral which have been identified as under threat.
Brechin Cathedral, St...
7 Jan 2010 - No comments
A planned housing development at East Fortune Airport has been grounded after East Lothian Council threw out the plans.
Historic Lothian Protection & Development Ltd had sought to transform...
7 Jan 2010 - No comments
An architectural competition has been launched for the Mid Cornwall Clay Country Eco-Town, one of four sites selected by the government as suitable for the development of a new breed of New Town....
7 Jan 2010 - No comments
Plans have been lodged for hovercraft terminals either side of the Forth at Portobello and Kirkcaldy as part of a bid to launch a new commuter route between Fife and Edinburgh.
Stagecoach hope...
7 Jan 2010 - No comments
Sheffield has established a design panel comprising some 31 people including BDP director Stephen Marshall to advise on all aspects of design including conservation and landscaping with a focus on...
8 Jan 2010 - No comments
Complaints have been raised of continued problems with damp at Dundasvale Court, Glasgow, despite recent re-cladding works carried out by Wates.
One resident said: “Glasgow Housing...
8 Jan 2010 - No comments
A significant expansion of UK offshore wind power has been approved by the Crown Estate with development rights granted to energy companies in nine regions, including the Moray Firth and Firth of...
8 Jan 2010 - No comments
Ian Springford Architects have opened their latest Apex Hotel in London.
Three floors were added to a remodelled 1960’s office building to fashion the five star, 89 bed hotel which includes...
8 Jan 2010 - No comments
Retail specialists Engle have merged with tp bennett in a move designed to cement the combined practices position in retail and regeneration.
Subsumed within the larger tp bennet, Engle will...
8 Jan 2010 - No comments
Administrators have been called in by Lloyds Banking Group to handle the accounts of Kilmartin after the Edinburgh based property developer in a bid to recoup losses from the developers dwindling...
8 Jan 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh’s City Art Centre is to close its doors from late April to late July as it undergoes a £400k refit.
The closure has consternated many of the cities art lovers as the gallery will...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Bulldozers could move on Manchester’s most famous street after ITV resumed talks with Peel Media to relocate TV favourite Coronation Street to the £600m Media City site.
Instantly...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Property and construction consultancy Robinson Low Francis have been appointed to provide cost management advice to the Helensburgh Chord project - Campbeltown, Helensburgh, Oban, Rothesay and...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Liverpool Central Library is on track for a £50m makeover as the Victorian institution spruces itself up for a new century.
Austin-Smith:Lord ambitious remodelling is expected to be...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
The Scottish Design Awards deadline for entries is fast approaching, falling on Friday January 22. That’s next week!
There is still time however for last minute entrants to join our 2010...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Ian Parsons, a small Edinburgh based conservation and historic buildings architect, is casting his eye to sunnier climes with ambition to rescue Cuba’s crumbling architectural legacy.
The...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Lego UK have partnered with some of the countries leading designers to produce a series of individual Lego creations.
These will be auctioned off on eBay from Feb 15-25 to raise money for the...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Dundee City Council have launched an architecture competition for a “world class” £47m outpost of the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Dubbed “V & Tay” the centre for art and design will...
11 Jan 2010 - No comments
Taylor Wimpey and Miller Homes have former army polo fields at Dreghorn, Edinburgh, in their sights despite planners deeming them to be of ‘great landscape value’ and being ruled out for...
12 Jan 2010 - No comments
Aberdeen City and Shires Economic Future (ACSEF) have launched a public consultation over plans drawn up by architects Halliday Fraser Munro to create a new civic square for the city by raising...
12 Jan 2010 - No comments
An artist who seeks inspiration from Glaswegian building sites has won the Aspect prize for new painting after a series of studies depicting the interiors of unfinished buildings along the Clyde...
12 Jan 2010 - No comments
Angus Farquhar, a leading light in Scotland’s visual art community, has postulated ambitious plans to transform Arthur’s Seat in Edinburgh into a dynamic light installation to mark the 2012...
12 Jan 2010 - No comments
3DReid has issued a call for entries to all UK architecture schools in their fith annual quest to uncover Britain's best Part II student.
All entries will be published online and an exhibition...
12 Jan 2010 - No comments
Travelodge, the budget hotel chain, are instigating a significant £115m expansion programme which will see 26 new hotels built in areas including Aberdeen, Liverpool, Edinburgh and Hull.
The...
13 Jan 2010 - No comments
Imran Sakur, partner of Sara Properties, has been jailed after the High Court in Edinburgh found the property developer guilty of a murder plot. He will be sentenced on February nine
Sakur was...
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