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23 Aug 2012 - No comments
National Museums Scotland have commissioned an expansion of their collections centre at Granton as part of a relocation from its existing facility at Port Edgar. The move will entail...
23 Aug 2012 - No comments
A development of 201 student beds on the banks of the river Kelvin, Partick, is nearing external completion. Designed by Manson Architects and built by Watkin Jones the seven storey brick...
24 Aug 2012 - No comments
A ‘final’ application for the redevelopment of Glasgow’s A-listed Egyptian Halls has been made by its owners to secure the long term commercial viability of the crumbling structure via...
24 Aug 2012 - No comments
Mactaggart & Mickel have confirmed that an investigation is now underway after residents complained of an explosion at the site of an ‘exemplar’ Scottish Government backed eco-village....
24 Aug 2012 - No comments
Urban Realm has been selected by PPA Scotland to participate in this year’s MagFest , an exhibition of 40 leading international magazines, as part of the Edinburgh International Magazine...
24 Aug 2012 - No comments
A new £170m wing has been opened at the Victoria Hospital, Kirkcaldy, incorporating 500 beds alongside eleven operating theatres and a new A+E department. Designed by BDP and delivered by...
27 Aug 2012 - No comments
Edinburgh International Magazine Festival (MagFest) has kicked off with a display of 40 national and international titles at Our Dynamic Earth; including Urban Realm, The Shelf Journal and...
27 Aug 2012 - No comments
East Renfrewshire Counc8il has granted planning approval to a proposal by McCarthy & Stone to erect 28 private retirement apartments in the south side of Glasgow. Designed by The Planning...
27 Aug 2012 - No comments
The Scottish Building federation has issued a call for immediate reform of public procurement in the wake of its latest quarterly, which has labelled the procurement process as a ‘lottery’....
27 Aug 2012 - No comments
A derelict office block in Paisley is in line for refurbishment after FreshStart Living submitted plans for its conversion to new student accommodation with an end value of £7m. Gilmour...
27 Aug 2012 - No comments
As a deadline for entries draws ever closer Urban Realm’s hunt for the top engineering firms at work today is moving rapidly towards its inevitable endgame. Thus far we have had close to 500...
28 Aug 2012 - No comments
Buro Happold’s Glasgow office has completed a masterplan study into creation of the world’s first ‘zero-carbon, zero waste and zero contaminated water' capital on the outskirts of the Russian...
28 Aug 2012 - No comments
Women in Scotland have held a summer garden party in celebration of their 25th year of promoting equality within the construction industry. Professionals from the property sector gathered at...
28 Aug 2012 - No comments
A wave & tidal test facility in Edinburgh, the only facility of its kind in the world, has topped out and a circular 25m pool designed to mimic coastal conditions emerged. Built by GRAHAM...
29 Aug 2012 - No comments
A £15m student housing development at Holyrood Road, Edinburgh, is nearing completion with the finishing touches being applied by construction firm Watkin Jones. Designed by Oberlanders...
29 Aug 2012 - No comments
A Neolithic monument which has stood on Orkney for 5,000 years has been recreated in painstaking detail online to allow the curious to tour its structure and chamber from the comfort of their...
30 Aug 2012 - No comments
Glasgow is to stand in for London for the next fortnight as filming for the Fast and the Furious 6 gets underway in the city, with streets around the financial district reverberating to the sounds...
30 Aug 2012 - No comments
Stirling Council has announced its intention to demolish its New Viewforth office complex, one of Stirling’s largest office blocks, once staff complete a move into the adjacent Drummond House in...
30 Aug 2012 - No comments
Edinburgh City Council has approved plans for conversion of the C listed Barnton Hotel into nine apartments and development of adjacent land to provide an additional 73 homes for elderly...
30 Aug 2012 - No comments
De Vere Group has announced plans for their first hotel in Edinburgh on the site of a redundant office block near the Western General Hospital. The £20m scheme will entail construction of a...
31 Aug 2012 - No comments
Edinburgh University have submitted plans for Holyrood North, a development of 1,160 student flats, offices, shops, bars and restaurants built on the site of existing university buildings....
31 Aug 2012 - No comments
Mast architects have submitted plans to erect 14 townhouses for social rent, 18 flats for mid-market rent and 16 supported accommodation units on the site of the former (unlisted) Broomlea School....
31 Aug 2012 - No comments
Work to complete the last of five flood alleviation schemes in Moray is to commence next week after Morrison Construction were awarded the £45m contract. The scheme will entail construction...
3 Sep 2012 - No comments
A Charles Jencks designed piece of public art, built into the Northumberland landscape, has been officially unveiled. Northumberlandia reproduces the form of a naked woman through carefully...
3 Sep 2012 - No comments
Preparatory work for the demolition of Tayside House is now well underway with the completion of scaffolding works by contractor Safedem. This shroud masks a hive of activity within as...
3 Sep 2012 - No comments
Plans by Graham’s Dairy to build a new town on farmland sandwiched between Bridge of Allan and Causewayhead have provoked a storm of protest from residents - who have bandied together under the...
4 Sep 2012 - No comments
Viridor Waste Management Ltd has submitted a planning application for the construction of a new recycling and renewable energy centre at Toryglen, south Glasgow. Treating approximately 200,000...
4 Sep 2012 - No comments
The Saltire Society has announced the winners of their 75th Saltire Housing Awards with designers hailing from the Highlands and Islands emerging as the nights big winners. Leading the pack...
4 Sep 2012 - No comments
Dana Petroleum has officially opened their newly refurbished Aberdeen headquarters, a 37,500sq/ft office complex at King’s Close. Designed by JAMstudio the project introduces break-out...
4 Sep 2012 - No comments
Professor Seona Reid, director of the Glasgow School of Art, has announced her intention to retire in August 2013, one month prior to the planned completion of Steven Holl’s new academic building...
5 Sep 2012 - No comments
Plans to convert a disused classical villa in Glasgow’s west end into a guest house have been submitted by its owners. Designed by Elder & Cannon Architects the scheme will entail...
5 Sep 2012 - No comments
Venice Biennale participants have arrived for this year’s event, flooding into the Italian city to showcase their projects and explore innovative ways of engaging with people and places....
5 Sep 2012 - No comments
Chinese critics of a giant tower in Suzhou, standing tall at an impressive 300m, have likened the spectacle to the world’s biggest pair of underpants. Designed by RMJM the twin legged...
6 Sep 2012 - No comments
An extensive refurbishment of 131-133 Princes Street has been completed by BAM Properties to provide 10,000sq/ft of contemporary open plan floorplates. The 18th century building is split over...
6 Sep 2012 - No comments
School pupils in North Lanarkshire have been high fiving the simultaneous opening of five new education campuses across the region, product of a £105m rebuilding programme. The ‘different...
6 Sep 2012 - No comments
A design team incorporating Glasgow based Gillespies and Buro Happold has won a prestigious competition to masterplan a new urban expansion of the Russian capital dubbed ‘Federal City’....
6 Sep 2012 - No comments
Newmilns Snow and Sports Complex have announced plans for a £1m upgrade of their facilities, replacing the existing dry ski slope and constructing two new parallel courses. Ranging in length...
7 Sep 2012 - No comments
Kraft Architecture has completed work on the BRE Research Centre at the Ravenscraig Innovation Park - achieving one of the highest UK scores for a net zero carbon building in the process....
7 Sep 2012 - No comments
Albyn School, a 145 year old independent school in Aberdeen, has celebrated the completion of a two year, £3.5m redevelopment project. Designed by Archial with Robertson undertaking...
8 Sep 2012 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has outlined plans to regenerate the Sighthill area of the city through the construction of 830 homes, school, shops, green spaces and a pedestrian footbridge over the M8....
10 Sep 2012 - No comments
North Ayrshire Council has announced plans to replace Irvine’s Magnum Leisure Centre with a new £17.3m facility as the centrepiece of its town centre renewal plan. Situated on Irvine's East...
10 Sep 2012 - No comments
Malcolm Fraser has been named by the Scottish Government as chair of a newly launched national review of town centres, tasked with formulating an action plan to halt and reverse the decline of...
11 Sep 2012 - No comments
John Lamb Architect has completed an arts and crafts style family home in Brodick, Arran, that is virtually self-sufficient for heating and water. Employing a cantilever to maximise floor...
11 Sep 2012 - No comments
A fraudster who posed as an employee of both Barr and Maxi Construction in order to profit from overdue invoices has been jailed for three years. Mangal Singh Dhami first struck back in June...
12 Sep 2012 - No comments
Works to remodel Bridgegate House, a redundant 1960s office block in the heart of Irvine town centre, have progressed with main contractor Graham Construction now on site conducting initial strip...
12 Sep 2012 - No comments
Plans to build a new £41m High School in Edinburgh are in disarray after campaigners won an appeal against the scheme. Approved by councillors in February last year Portobello High School...
13 Sep 2012 - No comments
A £9m development of 65 new affordable homes has been officially opened in Kincardine by Kingdom Housing Association – supplanting twin tower blocks which were demolished in 2010. Developed...
13 Sep 2012 - No comments
Critical Dialogues, a week long contribution to the Venice Biennale showcasing Scottish design talent , has drawn to a conclusion following the clear up of a raucous closing party. This...
13 Sep 2012 - No comments
A £15m design competition to revamp George Square has been launched - a project which could see all of monuments, bar the cenotaph, dug up and transferred for an indeterminate period, according...
14 Sep 2012 - No comments
A derelict Gillespie Kidd & Coia office block on Glasgow’s Buchanan Street could gain a fresh lease of life following the submission of refurbishment plans by Aberdeen Asset Management ....

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