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Edinburgh Tall buildings policy should be published shortly. At the recent World Heritage Site Trust event Inspiring Cities, Hal Moggridge of Colvin and Moggridge, described the methodology behind...
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Last month Argyll and Bute planning officers were due to advise local councillors to refuse permission for the Archdiocese’s proposals for St Peter’s seminary but the application was held back...
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Cumbernauld Community Forum held a one-day workshop in the spring to discuss ways in which their town centre could be improved. Although the event was well attended by local people, the council was...
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Malcolm Fraser’s plans for the Scottish ballet building at Glasgow’s Tramway have met with objections from some locals. The MFA scheme takes a difficult brief for a rehearsal and set-making...
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Plans to demolish five buildings, two of them listed, within the Edinburgh World Heritage Site in Edinburgh have provoked uproar among heritage and amenity bodies. Mountgrange plc and Allan...
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A world-leading planning expert currently rebuilding Louisiana and Mississippi following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita is to help plan a new Highland community. Moray Estates has appointed Andres...
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A planning application for SoCo, the mixed-use development to occupy the site created by the Cowgate fire in 2002, is expected to be submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council before the end of...
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Holmes Partnership has recently completed new homes for Bellway Homes on the site of the former McLellan rubberworks, situated on the Forth and Clyde Canal. Along the north edge of the site, the...
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Michael Laird Architects has designed a new office for the Premier Property Group. The 10,200 square metre building will form the first phase of a major redevelopment of the former BAe systems...
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Can a town be transformed into a web portal? Canadian artist, Sylvia Grace Borda, spent over a year addressing this very question. Her response is a new ‘media portal’, complete with...
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The University of Aberdeen has selected Schmidt Hammer Lassen, a Danish practice, to design a £55.5m flagship library. The library is part of the university\'s ten-year investment in its £228m...
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Royal Mail has launched six British buildings on a new set of special stamps. The stamps feature two Scottish projects; Dundee\'s Maggie\'s Centre on the 42p stamp and An Turas by Sutherland Hussey...
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A delgation of civil servants from Shanghai viisted Scotland last month to look at regeneration policy .A return trip is planned in October. Organised by Oxford University Department of Continuing...
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Anderson Bell Christie are pleased to announce that Bruce Newlands, Cathy Cooper, Jane Donoghue and Stephen Good have become Associates, and that Rowena Statt has become an Associate in Urban...
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Keppie Design has won the £284million NHS Forth Valley PPP project. A team led by Equion, Serco and Laing O’Rourke is now preferred bidder for the 814 bed Forth Valley Acute Services...
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Studio Kap has picked up a Civic Trust award for the Balornock Bowling Club. The only other Scottish building to pick up an award was the Scottish Parliament building.
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Nathan Coley will provide the highlight of Mount Stuart’s art programme this year. An illuminated sculpture in the garden will go on display from 7 May.
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
The design of Glasgow Airport train link has appeared in the OJEU journal. The feasibility work on the project has been carried out by Austin Smith Lord.
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Gareth Hoskins has won the commission to design the Museum of Flight on the east coast of Scotland. The new ten-year master plan will create a better setting for Concorde.
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
The commission for Jordanhill school campus has been won by Elder and Cannon. The school is run independently and funded directly by the Scottish Executive.
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
The St Peter’s Building Preservation Trust has uncovered interesting information about the internal discussion within Historic Scotland regarding the future of the A-listed building. Following a...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
The third biennial review of Scottish architecture and the associated exhibition was launched at the Lighthouse in April. This year’s review, subtitled Defining Places, has a strong and clear...
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Northern Irish architects Kennedy Fitzgerald has been appointed to design a new £14 million leisure centre for Clydebank. Kennedy Fitzgerald beat off competition from practices with a shortlist...
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Glasgow School of Art has won a Stage 1 grant of £4.6 million and a development grant of £153,500 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to revamp the Mackintosh building. Page\\Park Architects and ZM...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Jane Ripley, the director of the Scottish Executive’s Six Cities project, has been sacked after just a few months in the job. The director was responsible for co-ordinating the activities of...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Donald Anderson, the leader of Edinburgh City Council, will stand down from the council in order to become an MSP, but he won’t be quitting until May 2007. Trevor Davies, the planning chief, is a...
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Sutherland Hussey Architects has just completed a feasibility study for a new harbour on the Isle of Skye. The development in Portree includes RNLI launch facilities and visitor centre, a diaspora...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Adrian Stewart has left Chris Stewart Architects to set up his own practice, DO-Architecture Ltd, and has already won two commissions. One is an Arts Council-funded open competition to restore and...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
The Scottish Executive has issued its review of the work of its Cultural Commission and many are left wondering what exactly it all means. What is clear is that nothing significant will change...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Three major public building projects, all the subject of a competition, have been cancelled raising new questions about the efficacy of the competition system. The proposed redevelopment of the...
7 Apr 2006 - No comments
Cameronwebster is a new Glasgow practice formed by Robin Webster, the former head of the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture in Aberdeen, his daughter Miranda and son-in-law Robin Webster....
6 Apr 2006 - No comments
Design agency GRAFT has made some very imaginative use of Forbo’s marmoleum in the lobby of Hotel Q, in Berlin. Hybrid zones with double function occupancies have been developed and an inclined...
6 Apr 2006 - No comments
The Fruitmarket gallery in Edinburgh is hosting an exhibition of the work of American minimalist Fred Sandback (1943-2003). The show is an exploration of the space, through the use of simple...
6 Apr 2006 - No comments
The Lighthouse will host an international exhibition on the work of Marcel Breuer in from 16 June – 27 August. The show, which was curated by the Vitra Museum deals with his early work as a...
6 Apr 2006 - No comments
MKW Design Partnership is working with St Andrews University to create a new museum MUSA, for important material relating to the University’s heritage. The museum will be located in a coach house...
6 Apr 2006 - No comments
Brennan & wilson has designed a new office in Dean Bank Lane, Edinburgh.The client wanted a spacious, bright working environment that was representative of their identity as leading arts and...
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LDN Architects has completed a extension to the St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral in Edinburgh. The building creates a multi-purpose hall, meeting room and café. A service core containing a...
6 Apr 2006 - No comments
Dundee Institute of Architects (DIA) has replaced its single award with eight category awards. Nicoll Russell picked up awards for a dance studio and Dundee’s bus stops. Walker Architecture and...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
Graeme Massie Architects has been awarded the RSA Medal for Architecture. The award acknowledges ‘outstanding work’ and comes at the end of a successful year for the young practice, which was...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
3XN, the Danish architecture firm currently employed to design the Museum of Liverpool, has pulled out of the shortlist for Peacock Visual Arts in Aberdeen. The Danish firm had been chosen...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
“A group with a collective character; one which would like to see their beliefs accepted more widely, with a charismatic figure at its head.. There is a tendency in this movement towards the...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
The film-maker Murray Grigor is to reshoot his film about St Peter’s Seminary at Cardross, frame by frame. Grigor was originally asked to make Space and Light by the Arts Council of Great Britain...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
A debate has emerged between the Archdiocese of Glasgow and Historic Scotland (HS) over whether the public body has been asked to take control of St Peter’s Seminary. Ken Crilley, estates manager...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
The first speakers have been confirmed for the Scottish Design Show, which will take place at the Fruitmarket and City Halls in Glasgow from 25-27 October. The speakers include Massimiliano Fuksas,...
24 Feb 2006 - No comments
Writing the report card on his first two years as City Design Champion for Edinburgh City Council, Sir Terry Farrell has given himself a ‘must do better’. The acclaimed urbanist has another...
27 Jan 2006 - No comments
Glasgow’s ADF Architects has been shortlisted for the competition to design Urban Splash’s 40,500 square metre redevelopment on a site adjacent to the Midland Hotel on Morecambe’s Central...
27 Jan 2006 - No comments
Claims that the EDI, Edinburgh City Council’s arm’s-length development company, is to be sold off to raise capital have been denied by Ian Wall, the chief executive of EDI. Wall said:...
27 Jan 2006 - No comments
The master plan for the mixed-use development around the new National Arena next to the SECC has come under heavy criticism from the design review panel of Architecture and Design Scotland. The...
27 Jan 2006 - No comments
Despite having painstakingly brought the eight different owners of the site together over two years, Malcolm Fraser Architects has been overlooked to design a replacement for the building destroyed...
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Terry Farrell Architects has submitted an outline planning application for “a sustainable community” with a top-class hotel and a substantial marina on the Moray Firth. Whiteness Property...
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