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26 Jan 2010 - No comments
Fiona Hyslop, Minister for Culture, has announced that Karen Anderson is to become the new Chair of A+DS from April 1st 2010, succeeding current A+DS Chair Raymond Young CBE.
The move marks...
26 Jan 2010 - No comments
FAT architects have cooked up a slice of dramatic TV-AM styled facadism for a planned BBC drama centre at Cardiff Bay.
Ditching plastic egg cups for decorative pre-cast “gothic” and...
26 Jan 2010 - No comments
West Lothian politicians are to lobby Scottish Ministers for £22m of funding toward the upgrade of the A801 Avon Gorge to motorway standard.
Referred to as a “missing link” in the regions...
26 Jan 2010 - No comments
Allied Developments Ltd has submitted a 33 storey student accommodation tower for approval by Manchester’s planners.
Designed by Hodder and Partners the tower will be located at 17 new...
27 Jan 2010 - No comments
Carbuncle nominations are now flooding in with Inverness generating a welter of debate, both for and against.
Councillor Alex Graham, Inverness Deputy Provost, mounted a spirited defence of...
27 Jan 2010 - No comments
Sustainable Glasgow, a consortium led by Strathclyde University, has published a strategy to transform Glasgow into one of Europe’s greenest cities by 2020.
The feasibility study outlines...
27 Jan 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh World Heritage and the City of Edinburgh Council are teaming up to develop a lighting strategy for Edinburgh’s New Town.
Measures being investigated include the replacement of...
27 Jan 2010 - No comments
Manchester United Footballer Gary Neville is ditching the ostentatious “new wealth” bling of the footballers caricature to pursue a more considered approach to his new home.
Teaming up...
27 Jan 2010 - No comments
Historic Scotland has applied their laser scanning technology, developed in conjunction with the Glasgow School of Arts Digital Design School, to Rosslyn Chapel.
The technique creates a...
28 Jan 2010 - No comments
In a three part odyssey on BBC2 critic and author Jonathan Meades has launched an exploration of Scottish culture with ‘Off Kilter’, a narrative which commences in Aberdeen.
Aberdeen has...
28 Jan 2010 - No comments
3DReid have delivered their latest school for Clackmannanshire Schools Education Partnership, Lornshill Academy.
Part of a wider £60m PPP delivery programme Lornshill accommodates 1,100...
28 Jan 2010 - No comments
Dutch architectural firm Group A have completed a home with a difference in Bussum, the Netherlands.
The relatively mundane modernist white render home harbours one stand out feature, a...
28 Jan 2010 - No comments
Each New Year brings a fresh crop of architectural developments and so with 2010 now well and truly underway we are casting our eye across the land in search of significant enhancements to our...
28 Jan 2010 - No comments
England’s Planning Minister John Healey is to give local council’s new powers to curtail the growth of houses of multiple occupancy (HMOs).
Some local authorities had voiced concern about...
28 Jan 2010 - No comments
BDP, working with architectural aluminium suppliers Kawneer, have completed a new civic centre for West Lothian.
The building serves as headquarters for West Lothian Council and Lothian and...
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Scientists have overcome a significant hurdle on the road to fusion power, according to a report in the journal Science.
The US National Ignition Facility fired 192 laser beams at a cm sized...
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Manchester’s Urbis building is to close next month be transformed into a football museum.
Currently the National Football Museum resides in Preston but it will be relocated to the famous...
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Plans are in train to rescue Glasgow’s Caledonia Road Church from ruin in a £4.5m project to transform the site into a museum and gallery dedicated to the work of one of the city’s greatest...
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Trams and congestion charging are amongst two options being considered in a new report from Sustainable Glasgow, an initiative which aims to transform the city into one of Europe’s greenest....
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Elder & Cannon have submitted proposals for a £4m block of 49 flats on the site of the former Rally Filling Station on Great Western Road Glasgow.
The brownfield site has lain undeveloped for...
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Morgan Professional Services, the design and engineering specialist, has been appointed by the University of Glasgow to undertake civil and structural engineering on a £3m research facility....
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
Grampian Police have dusted off some unseen photos from their achives illustrating a dramatic period in the North East’s history.
Dating from 1943 the images depict the aftermath of a German...
29 Jan 2010 - No comments
South Ayrshire Council has commissioned Holmes Architects to design an extension to Heathfield Primary School after identifying an existing dining hall to be in need of replacement.
Ayrshire...
1 Feb 2010 - No comments
Now that the first masts for Edinburgh’s tram system have been planted in Princes Street I can safely say I’ve rarely seen anything cruder, uglier or less appropriate for a World Heritage Site....
1 Feb 2010 - No comments
Glasgow and Lanarkshire Councils are in discussion with Viridor, a Glaswegian waste management firm, to secure a £250m incinerator for the west of Scotland.
The plant would house an...
1 Feb 2010 - No comments
3DReid have submitted plans for their first purely residential scheme in London – a sign of the practices growing confidence in the sector.
Located in Fulham the £2.5m scheme for Freshwater...
2 Feb 2010 - No comments
Gleniffer Estates have secured planning permission for phase two of Greenlaw Village, Newton Mearns.
Comprising a drive through restaurant, care home, petrol station, medical centre and hotel...
2 Feb 2010 - No comments
SOL Golf Course Construction Ltd has been awarded the construction contract for Donald Trump’s controversial £1bn golf resort.
The Irish firm will be responsible for earthworks, ground...
2 Feb 2010 - No comments
A sod cutting ceremony has taken place at the site of Archial’s Plymouth Life Centre, a £46.5m leisure centre.
Incorporating a swimming pool, diving centre and climbing facility, bowling...
2 Feb 2010 - No comments
Strathclyde Police and public bodies are stumping up £1m for a feasibility study to look at the relocation of their “no longer fit for purpose” headquarters from Glasgow city centre.
On...
3 Feb 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh’s A-listed former Royal High School is to undergo a £35m redevelopment into an “arts hotel” at the hands of Gareth Hoskins Architects.
The development will fuse hotel...
3 Feb 2010 - No comments
A 21st century re-imagining of 1930’s airships is on the horizon after catching the attention of Samsung.
Ditching the lozenge shape of their forebears the new hi tech Aircruise designs...
3 Feb 2010 - No comments
The British Council has appointed muf architecture/art Llp as artistic directors at the British Pavilion for the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale.
No separate Scottish presence is planned at...
3 Feb 2010 - No comments
A farmer who built an illegal castle inside a stack of straw bales has lost a bid to save it from demolition.
Robert Fidler built the two storey home with stone, turrets and even mock ramparts...
3 Feb 2010 - No comments
Gardyne’s Land, a complex of five historic buildings restored by Simpson & Brown Architects on Dundee’s High Street and an Integrated Habitat Network Modelling as a Planning Tool have been...
3 Feb 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council has identified 29 potential allotment sites in a bid to address a severe shortage of plots across the city.
The sites could accommodate up to 2,100 new allotments over...
4 Feb 2010 - No comments
The Registrar General has projected that Scotland’s population will expand by 7% over the next 25 years, rising to approximately 5.5m by 2033 before slowly declining.
On a regional level...
4 Feb 2010 - No comments
A three month delay has hit the full opening of Glasgow’s prestigious Blythswood Square Hotel after contractor Chard Construction went bust.
Chard state that a “major dispute” with...
4 Feb 2010 - No comments
Work begins in earnest today on the most dramatic section of Glasgow’s M74 link.
The 750m long Port Eglinton Viaduct will stretch over roads, warehouses and the West Coast Mainline as it...
4 Feb 2010 - No comments
It may be landlocked but town planner Andres Duany hopes to bring a touch of the Seaside to Lochgelly.
Next month the American, who designed Floridas Seaside community, will be jetting across...
5 Feb 2010 - No comments
Warren Elsmore, chairman of Lego fanclub the Brickish Association, has fashioned a scale model of the Forth Rail Bridge.
Stretching to 6.5m the 11,000 brick structure presented particular...
5 Feb 2010 - No comments
First there were oil lamps, then gas before today’s incandescent bulbs arrived. Now LED lighting is set to be introduced to the streets of Edinburgh following a Princes Mall trial of the...
5 Feb 2010 - No comments
Landscape artist Charles Jencks has set his sites on a former opencast coal mine in Dumfries and Galloway for his latest public artwork.
An application has been made to the local authority by...
5 Feb 2010 - No comments
Doig + Smith have been appointed to provide cost management services on Glasgow’s £840m South Glasgow Hospital Campus.
They will ensure cost management informs the design, ensuring...
5 Feb 2010 - No comments
Belfast’s Victoria Square scoops the Silver Jubilee Cup at the Royal Town Planning Institutes planning awards.
Designed by BDP the scheme extends the Belfast city centre toward its...
8 Feb 2010 - No comments
A colourful proposal for Liverpool’s waterfront is in the offing after developer duo Richmont Property and Y1 Developments submitted plans for a 54 storeys (165m) skyscraper on the banks of the...
8 Feb 2010 - No comments
Glasgow City Council are set to decide today on a controversial planning application to demolish the rear of an art deco styled garage in Glasgow’s west end for housing.
It follows a prior...
8 Feb 2010 - No comments
Residents of the island of Bute are voting on the purchase of 2,000 acres of land from film director Richard Attenborough, the largest ever such ballot in a community buy out proposal....
8 Feb 2010 - No comments
Singer Annie Lennox has added her voice to a chorus of disapproval directed towards a civic square in Aberdeen which would envelop Union Terrace Gardens.
The scheme struck an off note with the...
9 Feb 2010 - No comments
Homes for Scotland, an umbrella organisation for the private housing industry, have warned that the housing sector is facing its worst crisis since WWII with “jaw dropping” in the volume of...
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