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27 Apr 2010 - No comments
Work has begun on McLean Architects £27m Airdrie health centre with the demolition of a former supermarket and office block in the Lanarkshire town.
Their demise will clear the way for a...
27 Apr 2010 - No comments
Industry journal Estates Review has picked up the Rubble Club baton in Urban Realm’s continuing crusade against needless demolition of serviceable properties.
Investigating the continued...
27 Apr 2010 - No comments
Arka have received planning permission from Falkirk Council for a development of 10 apartments in the town of Falkirk, Stirlingshire.
The scheme will see an existing stone cottage demolished...
27 Apr 2010 - No comments
A traditional bath house in Glasgow’s Merchant City has been re-imagined as a new £500k home for the Modern Institute, a private art gallery representing contemporary artists.
Scrubbed up...
28 Apr 2010 - No comments
Contractors have begun work on a £27m mental health facility on a greenfield site in Dumfries for the NHS.
Providing 85 beds the centre will accommodate facilities for dementia, the elderly...
28 Apr 2010 - No comments
The Scottish Government have refused to call in Edinburgh City Councils decision to grant permission for demolition of the UK’s oldest car factory, the B listed Madelvic at Granton.
Dating...
28 Apr 2010 - No comments
Yes, today it was time once more to coral the Urban Realm editorial team for our quarterly round up of industry happenings.
This time however instead of some every expense spared soggy...
29 Apr 2010 - No comments
Malcolm Fraser, architect of Buredi’s planned Madelvic factory development, has spoken out against demolition of the historic electric car production plant. It would see the B listed factory...
29 Apr 2010 - No comments
Battling to shed its unwelcome ‘Carbuncle’ tag Cumbernauld is enlisting the talents of sculptor Andy Scott to create a new wrought steel emblem for the town, in a bid to distance the...
29 Apr 2010 - No comments
Historic Scotland have commissioned DTZ to undertake an appraisal of options for the SV Carrick, also known as the City of Adelaide.
The A listed ship is currently languishing at Irvine...
29 Apr 2010 - No comments
A runaway success for BDP in this years Scottish heat of the British Council for Offices awards has been queried by Urban Realm readers who point out that Graham McClements, head of the practices...
29 Apr 2010 - No comments
The government backed NewHeartlands scheme, responsible for the demolition of swathes of housing in the north of England, has been criticised by Liverpool City Council leader Warren Bradley for...
30 Apr 2010 - No comments
Finishing touches are being made to the largest single site development of its kind in the UK, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, which opens to patients on June 16.
This will see a...
30 Apr 2010 - No comments
Jim MacDonald is relinquishing his role as deputy chief inspector of Historic Scotland after being appointed as the chief executive of Architecture + Design Scotland.
Karen Anderson, chair of...
30 Apr 2010 - No comments
Celebrity chef Nick Nairn will open the £2.7m Archial designed Erskine Garden Centre and cafe tomorrow as the centre opens to the public.
Nairn is backing the veterans’ charity venture by...
3 May 2010 - No comments
Seven additional architect designed Maggies’s Centres have been unveiled for the UK, ranging from intersecting ovals in Nottingham to a “cosmic whirlpool” in Swansea.
Brainchild of the...
3 May 2010 - No comments
Irvine Bay are seeking an architect with experience of designing and constructing new build offices and hotels to prepare a masterplan and building designs for a mixed use commercial complex at...
3 May 2010 - No comments
Landscape artist Charles Jencks and sculptor Andy Goldsworthy are teaming up to transform a patch of farmland near Gretna into a new gateway to Scotland.
A charitable trust is being launched...
4 May 2010 - No comments
With the imminent demise of the first of eight blocks on the Red Road estate looming Urban Realm took a closer look at the notorious overspill community.
Designed in 1962 by architect Sam...
4 May 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh has been named as one of the world’s top 25 holiday destinations in a survey conducted by TripAdvisor, the only UK destination to make the grade.
The high placing will come as a...
4 May 2010 - No comments
2009’s Highland Housing Fair, like much else in the country that year, found itself a victim of economic circumstance as developers who’d signed up to deliver individual plots found themselves...
5 May 2010 - No comments
Planning approval has been granted for the demolition of a Liverpool city centre car park for a £56m mixed use development.
Comprising twin hotels 270 bedrooms and 113 student flats the...
5 May 2010 - No comments
It is a scene reminiscent of the apocalypse, serried rows of functional housing marching up a bleak landscape with not a soul in sight. Product of the 1970’s oil boom Portavadie was abandoned as...
5 May 2010 - No comments
Austin Smith Lord’s Roseisle distillery has been named as the Scottish Building Project of the year 2010 by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in Scotland.
It is the first new...
6 May 2010 - No comments
Historic Scotland is embarking upon its most exotic assignment yet, a digital recreation of Mount Rushmore in the States.
Working in collaboration with Glasgow School of Art’s Digital Design...
6 May 2010 - No comments
Sir Ian Wood’s precarious plans for a civic square in Aberdeen look to have finally fallen through with only four out of 43 councillors thought likely to back the scheme.
Aberdeen City...
7 May 2010 - No comments
Lewis and Hickey have submitted plans to Glasgow City Council for a £3.5m block of student accommodation on behalf of the jovially monikered Inehaze Ltd.
The build occupies a tight surface...
7 May 2010 - No comments
Clyde Gateway are mounting their first foray into the east end with a signature £9.7m office block designed by Cooper Cromar.
Located on the putative Bridgeton Business Park the 65,000sq/ft...
7 May 2010 - No comments
Wordie Properties have completed the transformation of a Georgian townhouse on Glasgow’s West George Street into office accommodation.
The property now accommodates 8,024sq/ft of modern...
10 May 2010 - No comments
Assist Architects are proposing a development of 46 flats for Southside HA in Cathcart on Manse Brae, adjacent to White Cart Water.
This is the maximum allowable density for the area which has...
10 May 2010 - No comments
Aberdonians are to be consulted on plans for a new home for Aberdeen Football Club stadium at a series of public meetings to be held in the city
At stake are plans for a 21,000 capacity...
10 May 2010 - No comments
A £19m upgrade of Tollcross Leisure Centre which would see a second 50m ‘warm up’ pool constructed, has been given the go ahead by planners ahead of likely approval by councillors.
This...
11 May 2010 - No comments
Union Street Investments Ltd has signed heads of terms with Longrose Buccleugh, a specialist hotels operator and developer, to manage a 136 bed Accor Hotel franchise at Alexander Thomson’s...
11 May 2010 - No comments
An impressive 77 entries have been received for the Queens Park bandstand competition, whose brief was to design a sub £500k multi purpose replacement bandstand.
Amongst the submissions is...
11 May 2010 - No comments
Dennis Sharp, founder of Dennis Sharp Architects in 1965 and known as an authoritative writer, penning several titles on architecture to come to international attention, has died aged 76 following...
11 May 2010 - No comments
Now that our third world electoral system has bumbled its way to the widely anticipated and wholly inconclusive result, attention can once again be focused on the things that actually matter to us...
12 May 2010 - No comments
A special committee of MSPs have lent their backing to a the Forth Crossing Bill, a key piece of legislation which parliament must pass before work on the £2bn project can begin.
In doing so...
12 May 2010 - No comments
Housebuilder John Dickie Group has been forced into receivership by the Bank of Scotland after the bank decided to pull the plug on continued support.
The move was criticised by a John Dickie...
13 May 2010 - No comments
Space North West has commissioned Archial Architects to deliver a £3.8m gateway building at Liverpool Innovation Park.
The project entails refurbishment and part new build extension of an...
13 May 2010 - No comments
JAMstudio’s latest project isn’t run of the mill it seems after the practices £400k renovation of a derelict mill was recognised by a trio of awards.
Little Maldron Mill has received a...
13 May 2010 - No comments
Ryder Architecture has received planning approval for the conversion of St Andrew House into a 210 bedroom hotel above a retail deck.
A joint venture between Regent Capital plc and ING the...
14 May 2010 - No comments
Christopher Morgan, student at Virginia Tech University in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, has been selected as the winner of an international student competition to design a music studio in Cité...
14 May 2010 - No comments
Union Street Properties and Union Street Investments have launched a 4min video charting 30 years of dereliction at Alexander Thomson's Egyptian Halls.
It forms part of an initiative by the...
14 May 2010 - No comments
On Tuesday May 18 at 19:15 Glasgow’s Lighthouse will be hosting ‘Made in Italy – The Influence of Italian Design’, a seminar aimed at stimulating a conversation about Italian design...
17 May 2010 - No comments
Writing in the Sunday Herald architect Malcolm Fraser has queried the likely recipients of the Scottish Government’s “National Housing Trust” largesse, a body set to inject £130m into the...
17 May 2010 - No comments
A curvaceous new double decker is set to grace the streets of London come the Olympics after Transport for London unveiled Thomas Heatherwick designs for a 21st century Routemaster.
The red...
17 May 2010 - No comments
A mystery benefactor, thought to be a local businessman, has pledged £5m towards Sir Ian Wood’s City Square Project in Aberdeen.
The donor’s 11th hour largesse is seen as an attempt to...
17 May 2010 - No comments
The coalition government has appointed Ed Vaizey as architecture Minister, replacing previous incumbent Margaret Hodge.
The Conservative MP plans to scrap the ARB and transfer its role to the...
17 May 2010 - No comments
A straw poll of delegates at this years annual RIAS convention has failed to find any architects willing to support Sir Ian Wood’s City Square plans, although there were a few abstentions.
A...
18 May 2010 - No comments
Chief Executive of the National Trust Scotland, Kate Mavor, has marked completion of the £21m Robert Burns Birthplace Museum by laying some turf at a topping out ceremony.
Built by Border...
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