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15 Jun 2010 - No comments
Europe’s largest mobile crane has been enlisted by Transport Scotland for the latest stage of construction on the M74 extension, Auchenshuggle Bridge. It will be the routes only crossing of...
16 Jun 2010 - No comments
A dozen arms length companies set up by shamed ex Glasgow City Council leader Steven Purcell have between them netted a cumulative loss of £5m, sharply at odds with a projected £7m profit....
16 Jun 2010 - No comments
A £6.4m leisure centre designed by Archial architects has opened its doors in Nottingham as part of the city’s ongoing Leisure Centre Transformation Programme. The Djanogly Community...
16 Jun 2010 - No comments
Kraft Architecture has completed a custom designed at 280 High Street, the mediaeval heart of Glasgow. The premises nestle within the retail frontage of an Edwardian City Improvement Trust...
17 Jun 2010 - No comments
With 2010 rattling by at an increasingly frightening pace the first Roses Design Awards of the new decade are beginning to hove into view with a deadline being set for entries of July 16. As...
17 Jun 2010 - No comments
A series of cameras installed in Birmingham, in the predominantly  muslim suburbs of Washwood Heath and Sparkbrook, are to be covered up after complaints from residents. Hundreds of cameras...
17 Jun 2010 - No comments
Ayrshire Housing has completed the purchase of Ayr’s Cathedral of the Good Shepherd following a protracted 8 year negotiation with the Roman Catholic Church. Located in the towns Dalwinning...
17 Jun 2010 - No comments
The Canadian Government has launched a UK drive to promote their ‘Super E’ standard of highly insulated housing as part of an initiative aimed at tapping into a growing concern at the carbon...
17 Jun 2010 - No comments
Melting glaciers in the highlands of Peru have prompted locals to come up with a drastic solution, painting their mountains white. No mere aesthetic parallel to the glistening snows which once...
18 Jun 2010 - No comments
A burst water mains in Glasgow’s Cowcaddens district has stoked trouble for 7N Architects with their newly installed street lights and paving sunk under 3m of water. ‘Phoenix Flowers’,...
18 Jun 2010 - No comments
Historic Scotland is to look into Perth City Council’s decision to demolish the B listed City Hall as the heritage watchdog continues with a survey of the city’s historic architecture ....
18 Jun 2010 - No comments
Edinburgh’s beleaguered tram project has run into its latest travail with transport bosses admitting they are scrabbling to find an additional £55m of funding amidst fears that sections of the...
21 Jun 2010 - No comments
A new breed of audio CCTV surveillance is being introduced in Coventry after successful trials in Glasgow, London, Birmingham and Manchester. Sigard has been developed by Sound Intelligence, a...
21 Jun 2010 - No comments
Students from Robert Gordon University’s Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, Aberdeen, are to exhibit their vision for a settlement on stilts straddling the Firth of...
21 Jun 2010 - No comments
Elizabeth G Mackay and Fraser J Gray of Zolfo Cooper have been appointed as joint administrators to Hunter & Clark Ltd, one of Scotland’s largest public works and masonry contractors. They...
21 Jun 2010 - No comments
RIAS, in partnership with the Scottish Government’s Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative (SSCI), have launched a competition that seeks housing and urban design proposals which reduce...
22 Jun 2010 - No comments
Sculptor Antony Gormley has completed his first sculpture north of the border, a series of six life-size cast iron figures along the Water of Leith dubbed "6 times". Placed in sequence the...
22 Jun 2010 - No comments
Ravenscraig’s regional sports facility, designed by Populous architects, has completed in Lanarkshire. Despite accommodating an athletics track, indoor football hall, sports hall and a...
22 Jun 2010 - No comments
Watkin Jones Group have signed a contractual agreement with Glasgow City Council and Dawn group over provision of 640 student beds in the £200m Collegelands development on Glasgow’s High Street....
23 Jun 2010 - No comments
With the Royal Town Planning Institute has expressed “disappointment” at yesterday’s coalition government budget statement, which will impose sweeping 25% cuts on departments responsible for...
23 Jun 2010 - No comments
First round voting has begun in 3Dreid’s annual hunt for the UK’s top student with the public being asked to pick their top three students from 22 nominations . The student who emerges...
24 Jun 2010 - No comments
Rangers’ owner Sir David Murray has launched a billion pound plan to build a Garden District on the western fringe of Edinburgh. A 3,500 home community would be centred on Scotland’s...
24 Jun 2010 - No comments
3Dreid have lodged plans for Primark’s Princes Street store with Edinburgh City Council following an extensive public consultation. The cut price clothes retailer plans to create a flagship...
25 Jun 2010 - No comments
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28 Jun 2010 - No comments
A flowering meadow is now in full bloom in the unlikeliest of locations, a motorway underpass in Glasgow. Phoenix Flowers were officially launched today by Gary Watt of Isis and Transport...
28 Jun 2010 - No comments
French oil and gas giantTotal has appointed Archial Architects to design temporary living quarters for 800 workers in Shetland, as the firm starts work on a £500m gas processing plant on Sullom...
28 Jun 2010 - No comments
RMJM’s athletes village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games has won  the approval of Architecture + Design Scotland after the watchdog lauded the practices proposed designs stating: “...the...
29 Jun 2010 - No comments
The Urban Realm Award for Best Design has been given to Antico, Edinburgh, at the fifteenth annual Dram Awards last night. This sought to identify Scotland's best pubs and nought one to turn...
29 Jun 2010 - No comments
Way back in March I wrote about competing visitor centre projects on the banks of Loch Ness and questioned whether the promoter of an architectural competition for one of them was abusing members...
30 Jun 2010 - No comments
A Venetian/Gothic theatre in Aberdeen, designed by Charles John Phipps and James Matthews with later alterations by Frank Matcham, could be saved from dereliction after a £520k was awarded by the...
30 Jun 2010 - No comments
Tenants First Housing Co-operative and the Scottish Government are to collaborate with local housing associations on a £55m ‘urban village’ for a former paper mill site in Aberdeen....
30 Jun 2010 - No comments
Urban Realm blogger Ross Barrett of HLM Architects has been promoted to associate position in the practice. Barrett has been with the firm for eight years in which time he has completed a...
1 Jul 2010 - No comments
Capella Group’s Jim Fitzsimmons has hit upon a novel pastime inbetween overseeing developments such as Atlantic Quay, after writing his first novel. Drawing heavily on his own experiences in...
1 Jul 2010 - No comments
Diggers have moved in on the site of Donald Trumps Menie golf course, Aberdeen, in the first tangible sign of progress on the controversial scheme. Machinery began rolling onto the dunes on...
2 Jul 2010 - No comments
Fresh from a £200k whirlwind tour of trouble spot towns at the behest of the Scottish Government American urbanist Andres Duany has been appointed to masterplan a £1bn housing development in the...
2 Jul 2010 - No comments
JM Architects have received a BCSE award for ‘Best extension, refurbishment and remodelled school’ for their Elms Court School in Lambeth. The Edinburgh based practice fused old and new...
5 Jul 2010 - No comments
Doubt may hang over much of the current Building Schools for the Future programme but one area where things are still progressing apace is Oldham where Aedas have just appointed as architects for a...
8 Jul 2010 - No comments
Perth based Clachan Construction Ltd have become the latest building firm to be forced into administration as tough market conditions persist in the construction sector. Clachan had been...
8 Jul 2010 - No comments
A Scottish Government led competition , run in conjunction with RIAS, to seek housing and urban design proposals to deliver a “new vernacular” have been castigated as “anti competitive” by...
9 Jul 2010 - No comments
It may seem like only yesterday that the Roses Design Awards opened for entries but already that day when we must close our doors to fresh hopefuls is nearly upon us. July 16, that’s one...
9 Jul 2010 - No comments
Living Architecture has unveiled an anticipated completion date for Nord Architecture’s Shingle House in Dungeness, Kent. October 29. From that date holiday makers will be able to sample...
9 Jul 2010 - No comments
Plans for a new civic square in the heart of Aberdeen have hit fresh controversy after it emerged that the Audit Commission are being asked to investigate a letter sent to senior labour politicians...
12 Jul 2010 - No comments
Urban Realm has been on a birlie round the whirlies of East Kilbride as the Carbuncles road show 2010 kicked off with a tour of Scotland’s first, and arguably most successful, New Town. Host...
13 Jul 2010 - No comments
Richard Murphy Architects have submitted plans for a radical overhaul of Perth Theatre to see creation of a dramatic new studio theatre together with a restoration of the existing B listed...
15 Jul 2010 - No comments
Summer must surely have arrived at last with the first appearance this year of that hardy perennial, viz. Richard Murphy’s plan for a new Filmhouse building in Edinburgh’s laughably named...
15 Jul 2010 - No comments
Google’s Street View platform has long beguiled its fans with an extraordinarily vast archive of the ordinary, be that in viewing your old homes or in scouring the world for mysterious horse head...
15 Jul 2010 - No comments
A car park which has dominated Gateshead town centre for 40 years will soon be history after supermarket giant Tesco submitted plans to redevelop the site as a mixed use plaza. Dubbed Trinity...
15 Jul 2010 - No comments
Richard Murphy Architects are drawing up revised proposals for their controversial Haymarket scheme. A series of pre-application consultations are currently underway with interested parties...
16 Jul 2010 - No comments
As the residents of Speirs Locks area acclimatise to their brash new pedestrian link photographer Dave Morris has set out to snap this newly sprouted landscape. Located on Garscube Road in the...
16 Jul 2010 - No comments
If your eyes have been glazing over at the tedious lives of the latest batch of house arrestees on Channel four’s Big Brother programme you may find some visual solace in the bathroom. Yes,...

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