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The failure last month of Chard Construction over a payment dispute with the hotelier behind the refurbishment of Glasgow’s Blythswood Square hotel has raised the issue of sub contactors...
1 Mar 2010 - No comments
Robert Gordon University graduates have added their own contributions to Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens imbroglio with plans to outdo Wood in the city’s City Square project. Spurred on...
1 Mar 2010 - No comments
Andres Duany has jetted into the UK in order to conduct a series of charettes aimed at establishing three new towns. A trio of urban communities are planned for Grandhome & Whitestripes,...
2 Mar 2010 - No comments
Doig+Smith have been appointed as cost managers to the second phase of redevelopment at HMP Shotts, Lanarkshire, by the Scottish Prison Service. The £30m jail will provide specialised...
2 Mar 2010 - No comments
Glenmorangie have taken the top two floors of Allan Murray Architects The Cube in Edinburgh, the largest office let in the city so far this year. The relocation will see the whisky brand...
2 Mar 2010 - No comments
Residents calls for a government inquiry into substandard housing in the Govanhill district of Glasgow are being heard by MSP’s today. Govanhill Housing Association submitted a petition to...
2 Mar 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh councillors have set plans for a giant ferris wheel at Leith in motion after drawing up a formal agreement with developers, Great City Attractions (GCA). This is believed to give...
2 Mar 2010 - No comments
Steven Purcell, leader of Glasgow City Council, has stepped down from the post citing health concerns. The Labour councillor had led the authority for nearly five years but admitted to...
2 Mar 2010 - No comments
I heart UTG, a campaign group urging Aberdeen City Council to reject plans to roof over Union Terrace Gardens, has found vocal and respected backing in the form of three leading critics....
3 Mar 2010 - No comments
UK Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has warned that a Conservative victory in the upcoming General Election will reduce the number of domestic flights in Britain. Adonis made the claim in...
3 Mar 2010 - No comments
Iberdrola put wind in Glasgow’s sails with plans for a global offshore windfarm base, building a team which is expected to exceed 200 engineers, planners and marine biologists by 2015....
3 Mar 2010 - No comments
Custom Design Practice Architects (CDP) has received planning permission to convert a derelict shop within Glasgow’s Merchant City into an African & Caribbean cultural centre. Situated on...
3 Mar 2010 - No comments
As a detailed masterplan is submitted by Gareth Hoskins Architects for the Trump International Golf Links the practice have published the first indicative images of how architecture on site may...
4 Mar 2010 - No comments
North Norfolk District Council is to decide today on contentious plans for a new Tesco store in the seaside town of Sherringham. It is a story familiar to any sizeable settlement in the...
4 Mar 2010 - No comments
Page\Park staged an intimate debate last night, questioning the proximity at which we construct our homes and the issues which determine that, an issue close to the heart of the Glaswegian...
4 Mar 2010 - No comments
3DReid have completed Moffat Academy in Dumfries and Galloway, one of four PPP schools built by Dumfries and Galloway Council and a joint venture pairing of Amey Ventures Ltd and Cyril Sweett....
4 Mar 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop is embarking upon the final furlong of a longstanding fundraising campaign to see new studios built in Edinburgh. Thus far the organisation has raised 90% of the...
4 Mar 2010 - No comments
Snow Architects have received planning approval for a 102 bedroom hotel in Liverpool’s Ropewalks district. It is hoped the putative scheme can revitalise the run down arterial route into...
5 Mar 2010 - No comments
Manchester’s People’s History Museum has reopened following a £12.5m redesign by architect Austin-Smith:Lord. The former pump house is the first public building in Britain to employ a...
5 Mar 2010 - No comments
Architecture + Design Scotland are ramping up their search for a new Chief Executive following appointment of a new Chair (Anderson Bell Christie’s Karen Anderson) and Company Board. The...
5 Mar 2010 - No comments
Denny has emerged as the latest Carbuncle contender amidst news that £11m plans to regenerate the town centre have stalled. Henry Boot PLC and Keppie Design had proposed to redevelop a...
5 Mar 2010 - No comments
A midnight deadline on the public consultation into the future of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens looks set to pass not with a bang but with a whimper tonight as strong feeling on either side of...
6 Mar 2010 - No comments
Torrential rain in Seville during a recent visit had me examining its relatively new tram system in great detail, or to be more precise its relatively new tram line, given that said means of public...
8 Mar 2010 - No comments
An oasis of green set amidst industrial landscape of Teesside has been saved by a Supreme Court ruling. The seafront Coatham area of Redcar has been subject to a series of rulings the local...
8 Mar 2010 - No comments
Two men and a woman, believed to be asylum seekers, have jumped from the 15th floor of 63 Petershill Drive, Red Road, in what is thought to have been a suicide pact. Currently only partially...
8 Mar 2010 - No comments
Buro Happold has established an Energy Performance Consultancy team in Glasgow in a move driven by a desire to address growing public awareness of global warming and spiralling energy costs....
8 Mar 2010 - No comments
3DReid Architects, Scotland’s second largest practice, are to open a new office in the Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian office is intended to bring the groups international...
9 Mar 2010 - No comments
Alan Dunlop is to give a lecture at Kansas City Library today in his role as the Regnier Chair at Kansas State University. The gm+ad partner will deliver a summation of the work of the...
9 Mar 2010 - No comments
WWF Scotland has voiced concern over the remediation cost of contaminated land in light of recession and 10% hike in planning fees next month. The environmental campaign group points out that...
9 Mar 2010 - No comments
Marischal College, Aberdeen, is set to sparkle once more with ongoing refurbishment work seeing the historic granite façade receive a welcome Spring clean. LaserClean are busily soaking the...
9 Mar 2010 - No comments
Work to demolish 100 homes has commenced in Grimsby’s Guildford Street, an area plagued by social ills and vermin. Over the next few months the street will be cleared in anticipation of a...
10 Mar 2010 - No comments
An unconventional approach to the reclamation of vacant retail units has been adopted by the Cleveland Galleria Mall in America in an attempt to cultivate a greener future. The glazed over...
10 Mar 2010 - No comments
BDP has announced that it is to open a new studio in Abu Dhabi after agreeing to merge with local practice SYNA. The expansion cements a growing Middle East presence for the practice which has...
10 Mar 2010 - No comments
Construction firm John Sisk & Son Ltd has been selected by Kettering Borough Council to act as contractor on the regeneration of the Northamptonshire town’s historic market place. Full...
11 Mar 2010 - No comments
Structural engineering consultants, Evolve, have been appointed to work on a 10m tall steel sculpture in Cumbernauld, designed by Andy Scott. North Lanarkshire Council commissioned the work to...
11 Mar 2010 - No comments
Transport Secretary Lord Adonis has unveiled plans for a high-speed rail link connecting Birmingham to London. A public consultation will now be held over the recommended route for the 250mph...
11 Mar 2010 - No comments
A £9.7m office development is planned for London Road, Bridgeton Cross. Work will begin this summer on the 65,000sq/ft building which will accommodate 500 workers once complete in march 2012....
12 Mar 2010 - No comments
Ross Barrett, project architect at HLM, is the latest blogger to join the team at Urban Realm. Barrett will keep readers up to speed on construction progress of the practices Passivhaus...
12 Mar 2010 - No comments
Primark have released massing model images of their proposed 3DReid designed store on Edinburgh’s Princes Street. A key consideration of the design is that it reflects the scale and...
15 Mar 2010 - No comments
A cross party group of MSPs have written to the principal of Inverness College to urge a flit to a Highlands and Islands Enterprise backed site in Beechwood, future home of the University of the...
16 Mar 2010 - No comments
Plans have been unveiled for an indoor concert hall in Edinburgh to rival the SECC in Glasgow. Land adjacent to Edinburgh airport at Ingliston will be safeguarded for the facility which would...
16 Mar 2010 - No comments
Contentious plans for a coal fired power station at Hunterston have elicited the wrath of an alliance of environmental groups. Peel Energy Ltd, owners of Ayrshire Power, is expected to lodge...
16 Mar 2010 - No comments
Doig+Smith have been appointed as cost managers to the post contract phase of a proposed £72m extension to Gatwick Airport’s north terminal. Work is scheduled to begin this spring on the...
16 Mar 2010 - No comments
Steve Inch, executive director of Development and Regeneration Services Glasgow, has announced his intention to retire at the end of July. The move is seen as being linked to the global...
17 Mar 2010 - No comments
The “Scottish mining town they forgot to shut down”, Lochgelly, played host to American urbanist Andres Duany of Duany Plater-Zyberk & Company on his whistle-stop tour of UK trouble spots in an...
17 Mar 2010 - No comments
Reports have surfaced suggesting American fashion retailer Abercrombie and Fitch could be eyeing up an abandoned Borders store on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street for only its second UK outlet. The...
17 Mar 2010 - No comments
Glasgow City Council, owners of Glasgow’s in limbo Lighthouse building, have stated their determination to maintain some form of visible celebration of architecture and design. Discussions...
18 Mar 2010 - No comments
Commercial scale extraction of wave and tidal energy around Orkney has been granted by the Crown Estate, identifying ten offshore sites that could generate up to 1.2GW of electricity by 2020,...
18 Mar 2010 - No comments
A 75 tonne treasure chest has been recovered from the Spanish briny and transported to Cumbernauld by Highland Galvanizers, The metallic bounty was retrieved from the hold of Francois...
18 Mar 2010 - No comments
Construction work is to commence this April on the BDP designed Bathgate Partnership Centre, a ‘one stop shop’ for council services in West Lothian. Consolidating council facilities under...

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