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16 Jan 2013 - No comments
As a judging panel prepares to deliver its verdict on six-shortlisted George Square designs Urban Realm publishes the findings of its own poll which aimed to elicit precisely what Glaswegians...
17 Jan 2013 - No comments
Urban Realm has got out of the blocks early this year with publication of our first edition of the New Year. Those of you who have already received a copy will know its stuffed fuller than a...
17 Jan 2013 - No comments
Stallan-Brand have updated an existing 7N Speirs Locks masterplan to incorporate a 400 bed student housing scheme. Taking full advantage of its elevated position the schemes first phase will...
18 Jan 2013 - No comments
An announcement on the winner of the contest to redesign George Square is being delayed after the jury was unable to come to a decision.   Panel members have been considering designs from six...
21 Jan 2013 - No comments
Hot on the heels of the announcement of funding for a new distillery at Kingsbarns, Fife , the Scottish Government has announced that it has sourced an additional £1.9m to fund another distillery...
21 Jan 2013 - No comments
Doubts have been cast over the future of Strathclyde University’s Architecture Building after the University refused to confirm or deny that the 1960s structure would be retained following the...
21 Jan 2013 - No comments
Nine shortlisted designs produced by pupils at each of East Ayrshire’s secondary schools have been unveiled by Keppie as part of a regional architecture competition. The schools were...
21 Jan 2013 - No comments
Radical plans to reshape Glasgow’s George Square have been scrapped in favour of a simple facelift, scandal hit council leader Gordon Matheson has conceded. The decision follows the...
22 Jan 2013 - No comments
John McAslan, winner of Glasgow’s George Square competition , has spoken out against the decision to scrap it in an interview on Newsnight Scotland saying: “Our scheme wasn’t radical, it...
22 Jan 2013 - No comments
Capital Shopping Centres, owners of the Braehead shopping complex on the outskirts of Glasgow, have submitted a planning application to Renfrewshire Council for a £200m mixed use development at...
23 Jan 2013 - No comments
A revised masterplan for the controversial expansion of Glasgow’s Buchanan Galleries has been submitted by the Buchanan Partnership following the Scottish Government's decision to back the...
23 Jan 2013 - No comments
The government has quashed hopes of an investigation into practices in the construction industry which led to the creation of so-called ‘blacklists’ of employees being produced. Business...
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
In the wake of the shambolic George Square design competition a group of young architects have gathered together in order to brainstorm a range of potential alternatives for the contentious squares...
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
Dumfries and Galloway Council has announced the start of court proceedings against construction group Kier after an array of defects came to light at the flagship DG One leisure complex....
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
The Policy Exchange, a Conservative think-tank, has published a manifesto calling for the demolition of Britain’s high-rise housing stock in a bid to solve an increasingly severe housing...
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
A Perthshire eco-house designed by Kirsty Maguire Architect, one of just a handful in Scotland to be built entirely off grid, has been given the go-ahead by planners. Located in Trinity Gask...
24 Jan 2013 - No comments
Council tax payers have forked out at least £86,287 in fees and prize money in an abortive bid to redesign George Square, Glasgow City Council has confirmed - although the true figure is likely to...
25 Jan 2013 - No comments
Glasgow has seen off competition from 30 other UK cities to secure a £24m government grant to transform itself into a test bed of technologies geared toward demonstrating how a city of the future...
25 Jan 2013 - No comments
The Scottish Design Awards is now open for entry for 2013, a highlight in the architectural and design calendar.  As ever the event aims to recognise the best graphic and architectural...
25 Jan 2013 - No comments
Phase one of a £45m redevelopment of Edinburgh’s Advocates Close has been completed with the handover of keys to a 208 bedroom Motel One by Chris Stewart Group. Designed by Morgan...
27 Jan 2013 - No comments
Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson has been accused of tearing up plans to redevelop George Square ‘in a fit of pique’ after his favoured option was passed over by the judging panel,...
28 Jan 2013 - No comments
Crieff Hydro has unveiled a 20 year masterplan for the redevelopment of its estate at Strathearn to transform the historic hotel into a major leisure destination. Developed by James Denholm...
28 Jan 2013 - No comments
Buro Happold and Danish practice Schmidt hammer Lassen have won an international design competition for a new cultural centre and library in Karlsham, Sweden. Incorporating education and...
28 Jan 2013 - No comments
Glasgow City Heritage Trust has announced its programme of events for the year ahead which kicks off with 'Whose City is it Anyway?' an improvisation event which will see two acclaimed figures in...
28 Jan 2013 - No comments
Snubbed George Square winner John McAslan has mounted an impassioned pitch to be given the reigns of a redevelopment of the public space, one week after council leader Gordon Matheson opted to...
28 Jan 2013 - No comments
Government ministers have unveiled the most ambitious blueprint for the expansion of Britain’s jammed railways since the Victorian era, the first new lines to be built north of London since...
29 Jan 2013 - No comments
Boclair House, the grade B listed former offices of East Dunbartonshire Council, is to be converted into a boutique hotel after being bought by WPH Developments Limited and Westpoint Homes....
29 Jan 2013 - No comments
A public exhibition has been held by City of Glasgow College detailing their £228m proposal to consolidate an existing estate of 11 buildings, scattered across eight sites, into a twin campus...
29 Jan 2013 - No comments
Proposals to restore a 1930s art deco outdoor pool in Tarlair, are to be considered by Aberdeenshire councillors. The controversial plans would entail filling in everything bar the main pool,...
30 Jan 2013 - No comments
A collaboration between JTP Architects, Gillespies and Alan Dunlop Architect has placed third in a design competition after being pipped at the post by two proposals from Shenzhen Design...
30 Jan 2013 - No comments
Miller Cromdale has announced it has commenced work on a 40,000sq/ft grade A office development on Aberdeen’s North Esplanade West after signing a £16m forward funding deal with Tritax. The...
31 Jan 2013 - No comments
Kevin Shaw, founder of Kevin Shaw Lighting Designers, has hit out at the botched handling of the George Square design contest by Glasgow City Council leader Gordon Matheson. Shaw, who had...
31 Jan 2013 - No comments
Further to our look at the City of Glasgow College’s new look Cathedral Street campus we’ve returned from the public consultation of the Riverside Campus with additional details on what is...
31 Jan 2013 - No comments
A planned £9.2m Criminal Justice Centre at Kittybrewster, Aberdeen, has cleared a significant hurdle after reached financial close from Hub North Scotland. The GMA/Ryder designed facility...
1 Feb 2013 - No comments
The latest survey of vacant and derelict land in Scotland, covering the period up to December 2012, has recorded 10,984 hectares of wasted space, a net decrease of 114 hectares from 2011....
1 Feb 2013 - No comments
The latest phase in the ongoing regeneration of Edinburgh’s Craigmillar district has taken shape with the completion of a 34 home development by Places for People. Located within the Thistle...
1 Feb 2013 - No comments
Foster + Partners have boldly gone where no architect has gone before with plans to build humanity’s first home on another world, a 3d printed habitable structure on the Moon. Designed in...
4 Feb 2013 - No comments
On the eve of judging for the Carbuncle awards the Cumbernauld Environmental Society have staged a conference looking at how best Cumbernauld town centre might be regenerated – and  head off the...
4 Feb 2013 - No comments
John McAslan + Partners, together with their consultant team, have announced that they are to follow up their informal public discussion on the future of George Square last week with a morning...
5 Feb 2013 - No comments
NHS Lothian’s Royal Victoria Building at the Western general Infirmary has been officially unveiled by Alex Neil MSP, cabinet secretary for health and wellbeing. The £43.6m Keppie designed...
5 Feb 2013 - No comments
The latest proposals to inject a fresh lease of life into the decaying St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross, have taken a step forward after arts charity NVA lodged a formal planning application for its...
5 Feb 2013 - No comments
Sheikh Ali Bin Abdullah Al Thanie has won planning permission to erect a Falcon breeding and training centre at Weensmuir Farm in the Borders. It means work to realise plans drafted by James...
5 Feb 2013 - No comments
Work to overhaul Dundee City Square is currently underway with the implementation of a £2.2m scheme to overhaul the existing public space with new paving, soft landscaping, lighting and drainage....
6 Feb 2013 - No comments
The University of Glasgow has announced plans to stage a series of drop-in events for staff, students and locals to discuss a long-term vision for the Western Infirmary site , which the University...
6 Feb 2013 - No comments
Cumbernauld Environmental Society, a campaign group pressing for improvements to the New Town, has staged a town centre conference geared toward outlining possible routes toward attaining a better...
6 Feb 2013 - No comments
Environmental arts charity NVA has published more details of their ambitious proposals to transform the decaying St Peter’s Seminary , Cardross, into an ‘Invisible College’. This will...
7 Feb 2013 - No comments
Work to build a new medical centre in the Ayrshire town of Ardrossan could finally get the go ahead after the project was awarded £2.5m from the Scottish Government’s ‘shovel ready’ fund....
7 Feb 2013 - No comments
G1 Group has begun demolition work on the derelict Stuart Hotel, East Kilbride, after being served with an urgent demolition order by South Lanarkshire Council. The crumbling structure had...
8 Feb 2013 - No comments
The Scottish Government has confirmed that it is to stump up £800k toward the cost of rebuilding Glendale Primary School, Pollokshields, to serve as Glasgow’s second Gaelic school. Glasgow...
8 Feb 2013 - No comments
Scottish Borders Council has granted planning consent for the demolition of two dilapidated cottages and construction of a single replacement dwelling on a remote spot in the Manor Valley, Peebles....

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